I am assuming this is some sort of demo CD as the information sheet wasn’t the most insightful, in fact it kept redirecting me to their website, of that once there, there was no confirmation of my inquiry one way or the other! So what I will tell you is that ALTAIR hail from Sweden, […]
Not to be confused with the already existent hundreds of alastors in the scene here we have the Austrian one gracing us with their long-awaited debut album "Silva Nordica". This trio are not newcomers to the scene given that they have been around since 1995 establishing them as one of the oldest Black Metal acts […]
I decided on reviewing this album just because of the band’s name, AISLING (pronounced: Ashleen), a celtic female name closely related to mysticism I came across a lot when I stayed in Ireland a couple of years ago. According to the info sheet it means ‘oniric (dream-) vision’. So I expected to hear some Pagan […]
Just when I thought I was already aware of the most unintelligible Black Metal logo, let alone the abandonment of pronunciation to that same moniker, the benchmark I once knew has been totally erased! ABVULABASHY is without a doubt the craziest name I have ever heard for a band! And yet if you really take […]
Within the last three or four years, a multitude of bands released demos. There’s nothing unusual about that, for bands have been making demo tapes for decades. But what’s striking about the last batch of tapes is the direction the music on those tapes goes in; it goes backwards in time. There’s apparently no such […]
ABHORER are total cult. Period! That’s a fact and it’s not necessary to introduce them anymore as most of the headbangers out there have at least heard from this evil force from the Far East. It’s really sad that this band split up too early without releasing more hellish assaults. All their releases are in […]
Well, here we go with the re-release of the first demo of ABAZAGORATH, from 1996. It was limited to 100 copies, and thus for the die hard ABAZAGORATH maniacs who would not have had the chance to get it, Ancient Spirit Terror has put it out again on tape format, limited to 222 copies. To […]
Something completely different for a change as the menu for music reviews is served for me usually. As a tiny background info, YEAR OF THE GOAT from Sweden (a great band name, btw), has been put in flesh and blood by Thomas Eriksson (on vocals and guitar) in 2006 – and to complete his puzzle […]
The dead returns with the wind, is how you translate this German one man band’s moniker, a quite dark and melancholic band name, which in this case fits the musical universe of Bradhenr’s musical mood and state of mind really well. "Am Ufer Des Sees" was originally released back in 2006 on CD-R limited to […]
I might have been a bit asleep when the "new wave of Swedish Death Metal" started to rise and make noise, though was quickly entangled in the chaos with bands like CRUCIFYRE, BASTARD PRIEST, GRAVELESS and INTERMENT (if you can put the last mentioned band in the same category as the first ones, as INTERMENT […]