Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, Iron Bonehead Productions Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine Haling from Australia and founded just a decade ago, Temple Nightside will be releasing their fourth full-length Pillars Of Damnation on August 7th, via Iron Bonehead Productions. Their label states: “By now, Temple Nightside require little to…
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Sinistral King – Serpent Uncoiling
Reviewed: May 2020 Released: 2020, Vendetta Records Rating: 5/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine What do you get when the members of the bands Unlight, Triumph Of Death and Vredehammer (from Germany, Switzerland and Norway respectively) collaborate? A mix of pulverising death vocals, shattering black metal screams and otherworldly chorals that perfectly…
Abhomine – Proselyte Parasite Plague
Abhomine – Proselyte Parasite Plague Reviewed: April 2020 Released: 2020, Osmose Productions Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz Most anything involving Pete Helmkamp is blackened death metal gold (sulfur?), and his sophomore release up under the Abhomine moniker is no exception. While the LARVAE OFFAL SWINE debut was essentially a solo…
Cell – Ancient Incantations Of Xarbos
Reviewed: January 2020 Released: October 2019, Independent Release Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Beandog Winnipeg is located in Canada, underneath a cold air mass, near the fast flowing polar jet streams of the Northern Hemisphere. It’s placement on the flats of the prairie make it susceptible to harsh conditions and brutally cold…
Hour Of Penance – Misotheism
Reviewed: [November 2019] Released [2019 Agonia Records] Rating [4.5/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson If Italy’s Hour of Penance seemed to have gotten stuck in a bit of groove-oriented rut with 2017’s Cast The First Stone, following a decade-long run of stellar death metal that preceded it, it hasn’t taken the band…
Nile + Hate Eternal + Vitriol + Omophagia @ The Dome
Nile + Hate Eternal + Vitriol + Omophagia @ The Dome 26 September 2019 Review by Demitri Levantis Photos by Manu Volpina Please follow and like us:
Necronomicon – Unus
Reviewed: October 2019 Released: 2019 Season Of Mist Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Led by frontman/guitarist Rob “The Witch” Tremblay, with an ever-revolving cast of co-conspirators, Montreal’s Necronomicon have championed a “symphonic blackened metal” mix of pomp, power, finesse and mysticism that is surprisingly rare on this side of the…
Retribution Alive: Dark Clouds Over Camden
Retribution Alive: Dark Clouds Over Camden @Black Heart/The Dev/The Lounge September 6th – September 8th 2019 Review by Ambra Chilenwa Photography by Joanna Kat (Day 1) and Paweł Dziepak (Day 2 & 3) Editing by Johnny Wolf Please follow and like us:
Valkyrja – Throne Ablaze
Reviewed: [February, 2019] Released: [2018, W.T.C. Productions] Rating: [3/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson If there’s one persistent knock on Swedish black/death metal mob Valkyrja it’s that their songs are often just too damn long for the kind of music they present. With a visceral, snub-nosed approach that recalls Marduk, Dark Funeral…
Behemoth – I Loved You At Your Darkest
Reviewed: October, 2018 Released: 2018, Metal Blade Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson When you’ve titled your last album The Satanist, saying “it doesn’t get more blasphemous than this” of its follow up is either really saying something or utter bullshit. But let it never be said that Poland’s Behemoth…
Witch King – Voice of the Ossuary
Reviewed: September, 2018 Released: 2018, Blood Harvest Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Owen Thompson Although Rhode Island, USA natives Witch King have been around since 2008, it has taken up until now for them to release a full-length album, although there have been a slew of demos and split releases…
Hoth – Astral Necromancy
Reviewed: July, 2018 Released: 2018, Epicurus Records Rating: 3.5 / 5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Star Wars fans will no doubt know that Hoth is the frozen planet from The Empire Strikes Back where Han Solo stuffs an unconscious Luke Skywalker into the freshly eviscerated carcass of a tauntaun to keep…
Zombiefication – Below The Grief
Reviewed: July, 2018 Released: 2018, Doomentia Records Rating: 3.5 of 5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Early on, it seemed like Mexico’s Zombiefication were going to go down as just another Entombed-alike band with a Swe-death fetish, like so, so many others. Their first two albums – Midnight Stench and At The…
Belphegor + Melechesh + Bleeding Gods + Commander @ The Dome, London
Belphegor + Melechesh + Bleeding Gods + Commander @ The Dome, London 18th June 2018 Review and photography by Thomas James Henry Saunders Please follow and like us:
Slayer – The Final World Tour
Slayer – The Final World Tour With Lamb of God, Anthrax, Behemoth and Testament Jiffy Lube Live, Bristow, Va. June 10, 2018 Text and photos by Peter Atkinson M’kay, guess it’s my turn for a Slayer send-off now. But all good things must come to an end. And after 25…