Reviews

It’s been quite a while since we last heard of the Britannic duo EBONILLUMINI, now expanded to a trio with the addition of a drummer made from flesh. Nearly four years to be correct. After […]

EBONILLUMINI – a portmanteau, the fusion of the light and the dark. Whether this dualism is meant to apply on the minds behind Ebonillumini, the Maiden Marshall (Christina Poupoutsi, voice and keys) and the Monk […]

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 […]