20 – Hädanefter – JORDFÄST (Sweden) May 7, 2021 The two man black metal project of JORDFÄST has been around since 2017 but this is their first release. Two tracks total just over half an hour, and vary between mournful guitar work, frantic drumming and harsh vocals. Delivering varying tempos,...
2021 started out as a slow year for releases, it seemed many bands were still holding on to ideas of touring, which were inevitably dashed as shit got worse than the year before. Even still, after sifting through close to 400 new albums, I managed to boil them down to...
Swedish black metallers Ov Shadows are back with their second full length album “I Djävulens Avbild” their first release on Hypnotic Dirge records. Their first full length ”The Darkness Between Stars” (2018) was a relentless assault of chaotic black metal, proving that the experience and fluidity the members gained in Gothenburg’s Waning, in which they all played...
In the current Covid times, everyone is fighting to keep their heads above water and the entertainment industry is one of the worst hit, especially festivals and all those involved in them. In response, 13 European metal festivals banded together to bring fans a festival of sorts while raising money...
The famed DEATHFESTS have been around for years ever since the inaugural Maryland Deathfest in 2003. Blossoming into North America’s biggest extreme metal festival, the organizers have brought the DEATHFEST brand to Nederlands, Canada and for the first time in 2019, Sweden. It’s highly suitable that the fest was situated...
This week I bought a handful of new releases based solely on their album art. I have not heard of any of these bands before and had no idea what to expect, so here’s the results of my expectations colliding with reality. Band: Hermóðr Title: Two Ravens Label: None Release...
At long last my most anticipated album of the year has been released. Considering INSOMNIUM’s last two releases have topped my year end lists, its reasonable to say my expectations were extremely high. This is classic INSOMNIUM album, there’s no experimentation, it’s consistent with their previous releases with all the...
Aeons Abyss is an Australian death metal studio project that has been around since 2017, and have now finished their first full length Impenitent slated for release in November. Apparently the music for this album has been written since the mid 1990’s and it was simmering for over a decade...
Dieuponaday from Edmonton, Canada recently released their album From Where I Draw My Strength and it’s a fun romp that crosses the boundaries between core and metal with hints of a variety of subgenres mixed in. The first track, Amelioration hits hard with a very modern metal intro interrupted by...
The cold northern pagan spirit is alive with Finland’s IKU-TURSO’s latest album “Storm over Isengard”. The six track tribute album of skull shattering black metal pays homage to two of the genre’s greats ISENGARD and STORM and includes a cover of SATYRICON’s “Jij Die God Haat.” Kicking off the album...