Eisenwald, home of old sorcerers like Nazxul, young defenders of “true BM” like Aurvandil or arty realists such as Formloff just to name a couple, is a great label run independently and with pure passion. […]

In the humble opinion of this writer, Genocide Shrines is absolutely one of the best South Asian metal bands around now. Hailing from the sweltering jungles of Sri Lanka, Genocide Shrines unleashes a unique black-death metal hell, desecrating all […]

Geasa creates a rather unique mélange of black metal and Irish-driven melodies. So far, quite banal. However, what makes this combination more close to the border, is the heavy wave of gothic rock which lies […]

Spanish project GARTH ARUM re-emerges through time with its debut album, marking the dawn of a new passion, of a new fire. ‘The Dawn of New Creation’ is ispired by dreams and emotions, venturing further […]

Lately, I’ve been known to look into the marriage of chemical drugs with musical avant-gardism. Although I will not paint myself in that corner for too long, I can only be interested by an artist […]

In his unyielding haunting quest to exhume the spirit of the Old and True, Woe J. Reaper and his FURZE digs with this fifth album – his first on Fysisk Format – even deeper into […]

Notes from two dissatisfied listeners: Just received the promo some days ago and this is it, really: the joke of the year. “Eerie Glockenspiel on very groove-doomy riffs” – seldom read & heard such nonsense. […]

“Furze” is the name of the Blade on the Reaper’s scythe – the one and only trademark of the one and only Reaper, made “music”. Woe J. Reaper, sole member of Furze, began back in […]

30-second-Grindcore-tracks, beer, faecal humour, men in drags, beer, porno film samples, beer- this is what you would excpect when opening the booklet of the first official full-length of FREUND HEIN (drawn in the style of […]

It is twenty degrees below zero and on the wrong side of midnight as I drive home to my log cabin on the outskirts of Fairbanks, Alaska. Above me, sheets of absinthe-green aurora swirl around […]