Month: June 2020

The anticipated and well publicized album harkening the return of Attila as the voice of Mayhem. Now although this is a band that firmly resides within the realm of Black Metal as oppossed to avantgarde, […]

Those of us fearing that 2009’s sudden return to activity for MASTER’S HAMMER with the Mantras album was only a one-off get-together of old friends having fun in the studio ought to be very pleased to see […]

MASTER’S HAMMER, the seminal proto-2nd wave Black Metal (=before Norwegian influence overrun the genre), is one of those bands that everybody’s heard of, but not that many have listened to. Even fewer are those who […]

The marching snare and the dramatic synths are a good start, and the explosion of samples is a fitting culmination to the intro. The first song “Planets” starts off with more samples, all very sci-fi, […]

Davide Tiso’s solo work is like a peep-show because it openly allows you to witness his incredibly spasmodic, almost entranced, guitar masturbations. And my impression is that he actually never comes: there is no final […]

MANIMALISM is the bizarre entity that has risen from the ashes of TAARENES VAAR (formed in 1992) having only produced two demos, dating back in 1996 and 1997 before falling into obscurity. Kim Sølve’s (the […]

Nobody wants the truth. Imagine a dark cave where water runs down the walls and the neon light reflects some people doing weird things on weird electric machinery including a Commodore 64 (or 128) equiped […]

Magnum Carnage’s “More Unreal than a Box of Precious Metal and Radioactive Ore” is an incredibly nostalgic record for me. Spinning this record takes me right back to the dim glow of my room in […]

I would never have thought that, of all things, such an incredible album like MADDER MORTEM’s latest work “Eight Ways” would cause such problems when writing a review! For instance there is a certain fear […]

Having strayed for many years along the dark path, it is refreshing to finally discover some positive and hopeful music that still doesn’t give away at the brutality. Lykathea Aflame – now known as Lykathé […]