Scene: It’s 1986 and Slayer are releasing their third, seminal, and arguably most significant album “Reign in Blood;” Anthrax are touring their second album “Spreading
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Album Review: Irrlicht (Es schlägt dem Mond ein kaltes Herz) – Nocte Obducta
Out of the ashes of the very short lived hardcore punk outfit Desîhra, twenty-five years ago, came German Avant-Garde Black Metallers Nocte Obducta who are
Album Review: Child Soldier: Creator of God – Greg Puciato
Greg Puciato, a man adored by many yet undoubtedly unknown to others due to the wildly idiosyncratic output of which he has been a part,
Album Review: Event Horizon – The Myopia Condition
“Through a will to create pure rhythmic brilliant chaos, came a manifestation of power and heaviness” ……..The melding of melding of minds and ideas between guitarist
Album Review: Hollow – Tomorrow’s Rain
Tomorrow’s Rain are a Gothic, Doom Death project hailing from Tel Aviv, Israel. “Hollow” also features guest appearances from members of My Dying Bride, Moonspell,
Album Review: In the Eye of Nothing – Gorephilia
Finnish Death Metal is doing well in 2020. Most of the scene was gathered to play in one place, to a full arena in London’s
Album Review: XXIII (EP) – Ewigkeit
XXIII – Ewigkeit In their own words Ewigkeit‘s new short-player is a hazy 70’s Trip-Rock style homage to “The Illuminatus! Trilogy” (the legendary psyche-conspiracy adventure
Album Review: Nightmares of the Decomposed – Six Feet Under
George: Full disclosure: I’ve never been a major fan of Six Feet Under. I didn’t mind their first album, but it’s all pretty generic, uninspired
In Case You Missed It! Album Review: Heir to Despair – Sigh
Another “H-album”, another SIGHcle complete. (Check out the first letter of each major release if you don’t get that.) And fittingly so, as “Heir to
Album Review: The War on the Wailing Wall (2020 Vinyl Reissue) – Arallu
Back in 1999 a Middle Eastern Black Metal band who, back then, were only a duo, by the name of Arallu, named after the strongest
Album Review: Kromheim – Kromheim EP
Created in 2020 and emanating out of Poland, Kromheim is a solo project and his self-titled EP is, at least to me, a mixture of
Album Review: Beauty is Terror – Stoneburner
For anyone new to Stoneburner, it is the solo musical project of Baltimore artist Steven Archer. Steven is also the sole member of the abstract
Album Review: Evenstar – Dwarrowdelf
As even a casual observer could probably figure out, “Evenstar,” the title of the latest release from Dwarrowdelf takes its name from JRR Tolkien’s “The
