Reviewed: January 2022 Released: 2021, Napalm Record Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Adam “Nergal” Darski has done many notable things in his life. Creating Poland’s most popular metal band and becoming something of a national celebrity are two big things, but now he has ventured into the realms of blues,…
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Batushka + Belphegor + Diabolical + Almost Dead + Warhammer @ 229 The Venue, London
Batushka + Belphegor + Diabolical + Almost Dead + Warhammer @ 229 The Venue, London 16th November 2021 Review by Demitri Levantis Photos by Miguel de Melo
Parricide – Fascination of Indifference / Accustomed to Illusion / Crude
Reviewed: [January 2021] Released [2020 Awakening Records] Rating [3/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson While they ended their career in 2015 as essentially a grindcore band, Poland’s Parricide began life 20-some years earlier cranking out a death/thrash metal hybrid that echoed the likes of Obituary, Sepultura, Death, Massacre and Malevolent Creation. Formed…
Crystal Viper – The Cult
Reviewed: January 2021 Released: January 2021, Listenable Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Buddy H What a great holiday season! I was treated with a trio of albums to review from bands I’m not very familiar with. With the latest release from Crystal Viper queued up and ready to go, my mission begins……
Azarath – Saint Desecration
Reviewed: December 2020 Released: 2020, Agonia Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Rossy Maguire “Saint Desecration” is a new extreme illumination revealed by AZARATH at the altar of blackened death metal. Unrepentant and provocative to the core, the album is set to astound the connoisseurs of sonic terror. AZARATH crept from the shadows over two…
Dying Vision – The Death and its Slaughter
Reviewed: September 2020 Released: 2020, Self Released Rating: 5/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis In a year overrun by a murderous pandemic stealing the lives of the best part of a million innocent people, the genre of death metal seems more appropriate than ever – particularly from bands who like to explore…
Black Altar & Kirkebrann – Deus Inversus
Reviewed: July 2020 Released: 2020, Odium Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Polish black metal institution Black Altar has teamed up with the Norwegian outfit Kirkebrann (“church burning”) to create a brand new split record stating how the metal sounds of both nations have not waned in the current state of…
Arkona – Age Of Capricorn
Reviewed: December 2019 Released 2019 Debemur Morti Productions Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Long-standing Polish black metallers Arkona – not to be confused with the long-standing, and much better known, Russian folk-metallers of the same name (or Арконa in their native tongue) – return with their seventh full-length, and third…
Vital Remains – Evil-Death-Live (DVD Review)
Vital Remains – Evil-Death-Live (DVD Review) Review Date: August, 2019 Released: 2007, Metal Mind Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: JP It is extremely rarely that I buy the same album or DVD twice. Who has the money for that? EVIL-DEATH-LIVE was a rare exception however. I had originally bought this DVD way back in the regular style…
Behemoth, At The Gates & Wolves In The Throne Room @ The Fillmore, Silver Spring, Md.
Behemoth, At The Gates & Wolves In The Throne Room The Fillmore, Silver Spring, Md. Nov. 2, 2018 Text and photos by Peter Atkinson When Poland’s Behemoth passed through the D.C. area a couple months ago, they played on the big “shed” stage out at Jiffy Lube Live in suburban…
Vane – Black Vengeance
Reviewed: November, 2018 Released: 2018, Self-released Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Though my wife is from Poland, and I have traveled there many times, I am hardly an expert on the nation’s history, which is about as complicated as it gets. But I can say with some certainty that there…
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…
Nokturnal Mortum + Biały Viteź @ Pomerania Fest, Gdańsk
Pomerania Fest: Nokturnal Mortum + Biały Viteź + Azel’s Mountain + Proch @ Protokultura, Gdańsk 21st April 2018 Review & photos by Oliver M.
Hostia – Hostia
Reviewed: June 2018 Released: 2018, Via Nocturna Rating: 3 / 5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Polish bands like Behemoth and Hate have never hidden their contempt for the church/religious ideals, which can be treacherous business in a country where Catholicism is essentially the national religion and piety is a way of…
Maze of Feelings – Maze of Feelings
Reviewed: April 2018 Released: 2018, Bad Mood Man Music Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Andrew Cook Maze Of Feelings are a Polish/Russian collaboration that combine a conglomeration of both the Melodic Death Metal AND Doom genres. Who’d of thunk it. Not me that’s for sure. Not like there isn’t a thousand other…