Month: May 2018

It’s true that we’re reviewing this disc a bit late – 2012 came out in 2008 as the first offering from Vyrmn, mostly a solo project by R. Ashley III. But the EP is a […]

The kaleidoscopic aural assault of the Germans is an apotheosis of fresh and captivating blackened avant-garde metal. The listener becomes tightly engaged in a dramatic journey through the haphazard evolution of a little planet in […]

This intelligent pseudo-horrorscope is sometimes melodramatic, sometimes hacked-up and breathless galloping, but its own operatic allusions mostly venture into the lyrical and the weird. In the first half of the album, the guitars alternate tight […]

I’m a fan of ARCTURUS since their first releases back in the early 90ies, and still feel sad about the split of a band that influenced so many other bands and set a new horizon […]

This is the fourth release, and second EP of this enigmatic Italian four-piece. Hooves… presents in concordance with it’s simple and esthetically pleasing layout two tracks of calm and fluent music that you easily could […]

First of all, first things first. I am not going to be comparing this “proper” album with its self-released predecessor, Overture Macabre (which was a pretty decent release in its own right), as though they […]

A nice short demo that amply demonstrates this up and coming band’s arsenal. This is an interesting exercise in rocking gloomy metal. There is a cloak of darkness over the entire thing, and rather than […]

30 years, 13 albums, a legendary status with a cult following as old as the band itself. A completely unique sound that paved way for generations of extreme metal musicians prone to smash out odd […]

Whilst most reviewers try to keep a constant pitch between reviewed thing and oneself, I take offensive on that kind of behaviour and try to change the world. For that reason please find below my […]

To give you a certain feeling for the time this album was released I went into the local library and got hold of old newspapers. 1986 was when Canada got beaten by France 0:1 in […]