Tag Archives: blackened death metal
Blasphemer – The Sixth Hour – Album Review
Artist: Blasphemer Album Title: The Sixth Hour Label: Candlelight Records Date of Release: 24 January 2020 Occasionally, a little unrepentant aggression and brutality is necessary. Normally I want more finesse and subtlety, not to mention melody, to my heavy metal. But sometimes, just occasionally, I can find myself in the headspace where I want to Continue Reading »
Bloodbath – The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn – Album Review
Artist: Bloodbath Album Title: The Arrow of Satan Is Drawn Label: Peaceville Date of Release: 26 October 2018 It has been four years since death metal ‘supergroup’ Bloodbath last butchered our ears with a slab of dirty and depraved extreme metal. ‘Grand Morbid Funeral’ was released in 2014 to mixed reviews but I have always Continue Reading »
Cast the Stone – Empyrean Atrophy – EP Review
Artist: Cast the Stone Album Title: Empyrean Atrophy EP Label: Agonia Records Date of Release: 31 August 2018 When a band features musicians that can boast connections past and present with the likes of Misery Index, Cattle Decapitation, Scour and Conflux, it is difficult to ignore. And so it has proved with Cast the Stone, Continue Reading »
Svart Crown – Abreaction- Album Review
Artist: Svart Crown Album Title: Abreaction Label: Century Media Records Date Of Release: 3 March 2017 The slow, churning and slightly discordant opening notes of ‘Golden Sacrament’ usher in ‘Abreaction’, the fourth album from French blackened death metal band Svart Crown. And immediately, they leave the listener of this record in no doubt that this Continue Reading »
