ALBUM REVIEW: The Song of Desolation – Thy Despair
After more than a decade of line up changes and intermittent years on hiatus, THY DESPAIR has finally mustered a
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Black Metal
ALBUM REVIEW: Wyrzyny – Kły
Atmospheric black metal can be a tricky one. The careful balance of ingredients required to make the recipe work, usually
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ALBUM REVIEW: Cosmic World Mother – …and Oceans
It’s been almost two decades since we’ve heard a peep from Finnish symphonic black metal act …AND OCEANS but they have
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ALBUM REVIEW: Gelidae Mortis Imago – Noctu
Funeral doom is a genre of music that is not only hard to do right, but also keep interesting. Long,
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ALBUM REVIEW: Nihilistic Estrangement – Forgotten Tomb
The evolution of FORGOTTEN TOMB could be likened to that of SATYRICON. Musically, the Italians and the Norwegians couldn’t be
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ALBUM REVIEW: The Reckoning Dawn – Winterfylleth
Over the course of a now fourteen year career, WINTERFYLLETH have established themselves as torchbearers for the UK black metal
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Bloodstock Festival postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic
This year’s Bloodstock Festival has been postponed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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ALBUM REVIEW: All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet – An Autumn For Crippled Children
True despair is a difficult thing to portray in music. Historically a lot of black metal has met the criteria
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ALBUM REVIEW: Anatomie Des Scheiterns – Hyems
Germany’s HYEMS are one of the of the many black metal acts to have established themselves within the underground scene
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ALBUM REVIEW: Fane – Ante-Inferno
Hailing from Scarborough, perhaps the last place in the UK where you’re likely to look to find extreme metal bands,
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