Reviews

I have my work cut out here picking an album with 15 tracks of hardcore grind (a genre that is close to my blackened heart). Love is the feeling it gives off as it strides into view and smashes your ears to pieces. First track ‘Incubation’ is really dark and brooding as it swipes heartily and aggressively. However, it has surprised ...

There’s an awful lot going on here, mainly the sounds of something brewing and then exploding into a glorious void of blackness, however, it is a whirlwind whichever way you look at it and of course, quite intense. Although, vocally it sounds like Alasdair is singing something different other than to what the music is playing. The violin is prominent ...

White Light Cemetery I’ll admit, I had never heard of at the time the album was available for review. Described as ‘Southern brother-dudes, cranking out dirty metal and corrosion steel’. Well, with a description like that, what could have been better for to ease my post-Christmas/New Years hangover? The down side is, it hasn’t eased the hangover blues, thankfully it ...

If music is a product of environment, then presumably Nicole Sabouné grew up clinging to the side of a mountain in her native Sweden. Laughing as the Fellowship was repulsed by the snows of Caradhras. In other words, it was bloody cold. Her second album, Miman, is a dark and beautiful beast. Feeling almost like it has stepped out of ...

“Pissed On is very excited to release our debut EP the Hanged Man via Advocate Records. This record had drawn influence from a wide variety of acts such as Pig Destroyer, Discordance Axis, Swans, and Noothgrush as well as embuing the sounds of hardcore, grindcore, black metal, harsh noise, and death metal. Thematically, this record carries a narrative through 5 ...

Beginning with Darkest Hour you are in fantasy land, sounding as epic as the track furthers. There’s an element of ambience and total surprise as a voice seems to appear over radio waves. Accompanying it are the most tribal drum beats which follow on introducing the next track, ‘A New Dawn’. Suddenly more surprise follows as a gruff voice seems ...

The axe has spoken in such melodic tones it’s difficult not to get wrapped up in it and bathe in its cantankerous ramblings, which seems the order of the day. Despite being written on New Year’s Eve, this kind of metal says “Enjoy the New Year, or be damned!” The love affair that I have with metal of this calibre ...

Like with a good horror movie, this keeps you gripped with evil and demonic keyboard chills that run the full length of your spine and leaving it feeling like it will shatter with the arctic frost that has now engulfed your body. There are certainly a lot of satanic vibes going on here as the second track gets into full swing. ...

A while back, Warcrab dropped Scars of Aeons, a 5-track master class in death metal. In a period where we have seen so many high-profile bands release some great (and not so great) albums, it is great to see the lesser known bands not only keeping up but in this case, surpass the releases of those big ones.Scars of Aeons by ...

“Solo-project from Jonny Pettersson founded in 2016 (Wombbath, Ashcloud, Just Before Dawn), playing nihilistic grind core with lyrics in Swedish touching the darker subjects of life!” It has taken me an absolute age to try and get the umlauts in the right place, as studying a bit of Danish, as well as a lot of German, I know that without ...