Reviews

I’ve delayed the review of this album for quite some time, I have to say to my shame. Listening to it once again I find myself asking why – actually, SAVNOCK’s “Theophany” album – consisting […]

On September 2017 Satyricon released their awaited ninth album Deep Calleth upon Deep on Moonfog Productions/Napalm Records. After 2013’s polarizing self-titled release which was specially celebrated with the well-documented concert with the National Norwegian Opera […]

Sorry for being such a lazy bum, for this should have been reviewed almost 2 months ago. An intense little slab of noise, this will entrance from beginning to end. This is a big progression […]

One thing that I have to get off my chest before going on to the review: Please include the lyric sheet, even in a promo copy. If it was jazz album or even a trip-hop […]

Ah, the humble riff; so abused and re-iterated that to a seasoned metal-head, it is very rare to hear ones which you can honestly say sound completely new. That makes it even more special when […]

Rarely do the auricular offerings of folk metal bands invocate a quiet corner of nature for purposeful meditation. More often they are filled with the echoes of clashing iron weapons and wooden shields and mead-filled […]

Samael’s “Eternal” is remarkably catchy for an industrial metal album, sounding like disco music from a parallel dimension where state socialism worked and the Soviet Union won the Cold War, a kind of worker state […]

The Singaporean band Rudra has made quite a name for themselves as the pioneers of Vedic metal, a mix of death metal and traditional Indian Carnatic music with Hindu Philosophical themes. This style of music […]

There are a lot of stereotypical roles for women in metal, whether they are the operatic Diva providing some archetypal “beauty” to the “beast” of the traditional metal sound, or providing orchestral or keyboard textures […]

Iron scraps, silicon and asbestos. A gargantua of colossal dimensions, awkward, moves its first step. Part machine and part beast, its roar sounds like the simultaneous rumbling of the car wrecks’ engines composing its body. […]