Articles by aVoid

This album from French Satanist bastards DIAMATREGON (third in order as the title suggests), a second cloak of expression for the occluded minds behind ALUK TODOLO (or was it the other way around?), is in […]

ARGH!!! 4 tracks, 2 bands on 2 sides, with 1 motive… THRASH! Norwegians DEATHHAMMER kicks off the slaughterfeast without realizing that anything has happened in music since the first trembling steps of the Teutonic trinity […]

In the musical history of Mat “Kvohst” McNerney, you could plot two narratives (simplified, mind you). The main one leading via CODE and DHG to the current HEXVESSEL, the subplot exploring different sides of dark […]

TRAUMATIC VOYAGE, the nihilistic musical expressions of a shady German character called Astorian, is an alluring entity. The project commenced as early as 1986, and has repeatedly recorded and released albums since; Cogito Ergo Sum […]

Grey heavens, no light shed. Down pours a heavy rain. Winds blow, and all that is heard is an acoustic guitar in the distance. “Ire”. Then, a shift of scenery. A sudden stillness. A snare […]

Sometimes, if not quite often, the heaviest obstacle for a decent and respectable listening to, and subsequent reviewing of, an album is not the music and visuals itself, but rather the blurb on the promotional […]

Supernatural psych-doom! Finland do many things extremely well. Ultra-filthy and harsh black metal and noise, ultra-cheesy and hideously melodic power metal, knife-fights and alcoholic binges, suicide, strange language… but most of all, DOOM. From THERGOTHON […]

First, you must forgive me. I do not own any official copy of this first Ulver release; not the original self-released cassette, nor the hastily sold-out 10″ released by The End in 2002. My version […]

A bizarre creature hatched from eggs laid at the turn of the century, where black metal tore away from the entrapment of convention to seek out new shapes and forms. What is born: a n […]

The Sun, invincible and all-illuminating. Blood, the flowing life, and Truth or Fidelity, the prime ideals of Man. Two proud Danish extreme metal artists, the heathens Emil Brahe of death/doom metal outfit SOL and Trúa […]