After becoming rather successful in the underground with their “Deathstroke” album earlier this year, these three freaks from Gelsenkirchen, Germany are coming along with some new stuff as an EP. What shall one say, they rumble with high speed through five new tracks, still deeply breathing the old spirit. The hometown obliges, so feel remembered […]
Maryland’s MYTHOSPHERE embodies the essence of Stoner Metal with their first full-length “Pathological”. But the band’s no stranger to its doom-laden content as three members of PALE DIVINE are in the mix (Dana Ortt, Ron McGinnis and Darin McCloskey). Victor Arduini rolls out the full membership. It’s pretty easy to tell the band’s genre with […]
Graveyard? Coffin? If someone suspects Death Metal, then this assumption is correct. GRAVEYARD WINDS from Colombia are presenting their first official release in form of a four track EP. The opener ‘The Fetid Wave’ makes clear where the journey is heading. Mid-tempo based Death Metal with melodic guitar leads and interspersed up-tempo parts. Well, that […]
This one hit me out of the blue! I never heard of the Finnish duo BURIAL CHOIR before, I have to admit. And now, with their third album “Descension Of Firmament”, they present nothing less than my personal album of the year. The melancholic Funeral Doom Metal of BURIAL CHOIR is such heart moving and […]
DER TRAUERSCHWAN is a one man band, formed in Sweden and if I am not wrong the name is in German… The Black Swan? (Yes, it’s German and means The Grief Swan – Frank) Ok, it sounds better in German anyway. For a Doom Black Metal band I guess anything goes. Very atmospheric, very doom, […]
Polish blasphemous Black Metal band MORDHELL formed back in 2003 and this is their fourth album, along many other demos, splits and compilations. There are actually five songs of their own and three covers on here, which is kinda strange, to include that many in an album. But then again who cares? Ok, in their […]
Debuting with two singles off their debut 2020 album, Polish act VOIDFIRE has just released “W Ciene”, their second full-length album courtesy of also Polish label Szataniec. Describing VOIDFIRE as melodic Black Metal is an understatement. Their music encompasses a bunch of different influences, but it is deeply rooted in the (dare I say) classic […]
Greece has been making a name for itself in the epic / traditional Doom Metal scene for a number of years now, with bands such as THE TEMPLE and todays review subjects DOOMOCRACY, who already have two full-length albums under their collective musical belt, and have released what is undoubtedly one of the finest Doom […]
Well, Norway’s KAMPFAR are already around for nearly 30 years and have released eight albums since 1997. Fun fact: despite that, I never listened to their music intentionally. And I can’t even tell you why. Yet I can tell you that I should catch up on that, judging from the album “Til Klovers Takt” which […]
Gothenburg’s so heavily rooted into the sound of NORRSKÖLD that you can immediately tell after a brief listen to “Prisma Aeternus”, the third full-length from this melodic Black Metal band. There’s a little DARK TRANQUILLITY, a little early IN FLAMES. And that’s never a bad thing. It’s sort of odd how you just immediately recognize […]