Tag Archives: Century Media Records

Artist: Tribulation Album Title: Where The Gloom Becomes Sound Label: Century Media Records Date of Release: 29 January 2021 I may not be as well versed as many of you out there in the ways of Tribulation, having only ‘discovered’ them in 2018 via ‘Down Below’, but news of a new a new album still  Continue Reading »

Artist: Asphyx Album Title: Necroceros Label: Century Media Records Date of Release: 22 January 2021 After the hell that was 2020, it seems perfectly fitting to review some heavy as all hell death metal right at the start of this new year. And it is delivered to us in the form of ‘Necroceros’, the tenth  Continue Reading »

Welcome to instalment number twenty-five of my 2020 ‘Album of the Year Top 30 countdown’. The last pick before I enter the final five for the year. Getting excited? I know that I am. I’m also a little worried that I won’t get this countdown complete before Christmas Day as promised. My family don’t need  Continue Reading »

Welcome to instalment number eighteen of my 2020 ‘Album of the Year Top 30 countdown’. In my family, for many reasons, the number thirteen has been very lucky, so I never subscribe to the ‘unlucky for some’ mantra that accompanies this double-digit. Let’s hope that today’s recipient of my number 13 slot feels the same  Continue Reading »

Artist: Dark Tranquillity Album Title: Moment Label: Century Media Records Date of Release: 20 November 2020 Any day that I get to listen to new Dark Tranquillity music is a good day in my book. It is an especially good day when the wait has been four long years. I hadn’t actually twigged that it  Continue Reading »

  Artist: Necrophobic Album Title: Dawn Of The Damned Label: Century Media Records Date of Release: 9 October 2020 Oh for the love of all that is evil, not again. How the devil did I let Necrophobic pass me by until now? I mean, HOW? I love blackened death metal, especially the kind that injects  Continue Reading »

Artist: Skeletal Remains Album Title: The Entombment Of Chaos Label: Century Media Records Date of Release: 11 September 2020 If you class yourself as a fan of ‘old school’ death metal, the kind that shows no mercy, has a dark, claustrophobic atmosphere and which goes on the attack from start to finish, then you may  Continue Reading »

Artist: Black Crown Initiate Album Title: Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape Label: Century Media Records Date of Release: 7 August 2020 Another new ‘discovery’ for me today, in the shape of Black Crown Initiate, a progressive death metal outfit from the United States. I put the word discovery in quotation marks because this isn’t so  Continue Reading »

Artist: Havok Album Title: V Label: Century Media Date of Release: 1 May 2020 I may be called ‘the Man of Much Metal’ but, like every metal head on planet Earth, I had my favourite genres, sub-genres and sub-sub-genres. I also had those genres of metal that I didn’t like as much. Or at least,  Continue Reading »

Artist: Dark Fortress Album Title: Spectres From The Old World Label: Century Media Records Date of Release: 28 February 2020 Another day, another new band for me to listen to. 2020 is shaping up rather nicely in this regard with plenty of great new music discovered. Of course, I’d heard the name Dark Fortress previously,  Continue Reading »