Reviewed: January 2021 Released: 2020, independent Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Lee Carter In some circles, there is a school of thought to keep music genres pure. By drawing influence from other genres, the one that forms the core of a band’s sound becomes diluted. For some, this makes it worse: a…
DIMMU BORGIR
Seraph In Travail – A Black Death Incense
Reviewed: January 2021 Released: 2020, self-released Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis The world of symphonic death metal is one that I’ve noticed emerging from obscurity into a wider audience over the past few years, particularly with Fleshgod Apocalypse leading the way. Combining decent death metal extremities with the kind of…
Interview with Empyrean Fire
Interview with Tricia Myers (vocals) of EMPYREAN FIRE Interview by Lee Carter www.youtube.com/channel/UCya0242W32bKGm4WrC2K4ew www.instagram.com/empyreanfire666/ www.facebook.com/empyreanfire666 empyreanfire666.bandcamp.com/album/deliverance Hey and thank you for your time. Please state your name and position in the band. Tricia Myers, vocals. How did the band come into existence? How did you all get into music and…
Interview with Snowy Shaw, author of The Book Of Heavy Metal
Interview with Snowy Shaw, author of The Book Of Heavy Metal by JP When did you first decide it was the time to write your life story? Well, to actually make it into a book, to be released into the world all happened kind of gradually. It’s a long story…
Shaw, Snowy, -The Book Of Heavy Metal (Book Review)
Reviewed: November, 2020 Released: 2020, WunderWurld Rating: 5/5 Reviewer: JP I was very excited to read the new autobiography of Snowy Shaw. At one point I stopped and wondered why I was looking forward to this book so much. I mean, after all it is ‘just’ another autobiography from a…
Protokult – Transcending The Ruins
Reviewed: November 2020 Released: 2020 Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Lee Carter It’s not often that you come across a band that neatly encapsulates the more po-faced nature of supposedly “traditional” or straight-forward metal with the boozy fun times of a party band, but here we are with PROTOKULT. It’s a bit…
INSIDIOUS DISEASE DEBUT NEW DEATH RIPPER TRACK “BETRAYER”
FIRST NEW ALBUM IN A DECADE, “AFTER DEATH,” OUT OCT 30TH PRE-ORDER NOW @ www.nuclearblast.com/insidiousdisease-ad Norwegian death metal horde INSIDIOUS DISEASE, featuring current/former members from DIMMU BORGIR, MORGOTH, NILE, SUSPERIA and NAPALM DEATH, have announced their first album in a decade, “After Death,” will be released on October 30th with…
SNOWY SHAW ANNOUNCES HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, ‘THE BOOK OF HEAVY METAL’ AND LIVE STREAM FACEBOOK EVENT
Renowned from bands like King Diamond, Sabaton, Mercyful Fate, Therion, Dream Evil, Dimmu Borgir, Notre Dame, Memento Mori, Denner/Shermann etc., multi-instrumentalist Snowy Shaw will soon be unleashing his autobiography, ‘The Book of Heavy Metal’ (named after his most popular anthem to date, written for former band Dream Evil). The book’s…
DIMMU BORGIR-Stormblast MMV-The Covideo Chronicles-Day 33 (May 3rd, 2020)
Reviewed: June, 2020 Released: 2005, Nuclear Blast Rating: 2.5/5 (Just the DVD) Reviewer: JP Over the years I’ve done a number of more ambitious series of reviews instead of simple stand-alone reviews. This is perhaps my most ambitious project yet. This series of reviews was born out of three seemingly…
Dimmu Borgir-The Invaluable Darkness (DVD Review)
Reviewed: April 2020 Released: 2008, Nuclear Blast Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: JP I reviewed Dimmu Borgir’s first DVD WORLD MISANTHROPY back in 2016 and in hindsight I might have been a little too critical about it. It was a superb package, the three disc, upside-down cross digipak looks amazing! The packaging…
Dimmu Borgir + Amorphis + Wolves in the Throne Room @ The Kentish Town Forum, London
Dimmu Borgir + Amorphis + Wolves in the Throne Room @ The Kentish Town Forum, London 22 January 2020 Review by Demitri Levantis Photography by Graham Hilling
Copenhell Festival 2019 Refshaleoen Copenhagen, Denmark
Copenhell Festival 2019 Refshaleoen Copenhagen Denmark 19-22/6 Live review and pictures by Anders Sandvall For 2019, the Copenhell festival celebrates ten years in hell. As I have visited the festival almost every year, of course, I had to cover this year’s edition as well. I’ve really come to love the…
Tuska Festival 2019 – Suvilahti, Finland
TUSKA 2019 HELSINKI, FINLAND The annual and traditional Finnish metal festival Tuska Open Air is here again. In all, 43 000 people visited the Tuska festival for three days. That was an amazing attendance record in the long history of the Tuska Festival. One of the reasons for that…
Kreator, Dimmu Borgir, Hatebreed & Bloodbath @ The Roundhouse, London
Kreator, Dimmu Borgir, Hatebreed & Bloodbath The Roundhouse, London 16th December 2018 Review & Photography: Graham Hilling
Snowy Shaw interview
Interviewed by EvilG Snowy Shaw is a name I’ve known for about 30yrs. Like many long time metalheads, my introduction to him was as the drummer for the great King Diamond. Since then he’s worn many hats in many different bands (Dream Evil, Therion, Memento Mori, Sabaton, Dimmu Borgir, Ill…