Tag Archives: Progressive Death Metal

Artist: Ne Obliviscaris Album Title: Urn Label: Season Of Mist Date Of Release: 27 October 2017 Many column inches have been filled with commentary about Ne Obliviscaris over the past year or so after the Australians announced a ‘patron crowd funding campaign’ to essentially fund them to be full-time musicians. The initiative was designed to  Continue Reading »

The Blog of Much Metal is nothing if not predictable. But, what it lacks in spontaneity, it makes up for with quality writing, brilliant wit, incisive articles and a bucket load of irony and modesty. As a result, I return with my usual mid-year round-up of the best music that has been released between January  Continue Reading »

Artist: Persefone Album Title: Aathma Label: ViciSolum Records Date of Release: 24 February 2017 I will be honest and admit that prior to this record, my opinion of progressive death/extreme metal band Persefone was not that high, despite my general favour towards this particular subgenre of metal. I felt that the music on previous outings  Continue Reading »

Persefone – Aathma Release date: 24 February 2017 For anyone looking for a quality dose of progressive death metal, then look no further than Persefone. Hailing from the absolute hotbed of metal that is Andorra, Persefone have made more than a few waves in what is an ever more competitive and crowded genre of metal  Continue Reading »

Welcome to what I fully expect is the final part in my series looking at my most anticipated albums due out during 2016. You’d think that the quality would be drying up now having already picked 30 potentially great albums. But not a chance – as Part 4 demonstrates, there are still some top quality  Continue Reading »

Just when you thought I’d finished exploring some of the new releases coming througout 2014, I have come across another selection. If you missed them first time around, Part 1 can be read here and Part 2 can be seen here. So, what albums have I come across that have got me excited? H.E.A.T. ‘Tearing  Continue Reading »

After the marathon event that was my Top 20 of 2012 countdown (which you can check out here if you missed it! ), I felt it was only fair to round things off with a post or two about those albums that I liked but that, for one reason or another, were not in that  Continue Reading »

Day 9 of my Top 20 rock/metal albums of 2012 Day 8, featurfing some tasty UK thrash metal can be found here. Gojira ‘L’Enfant Sauvage’ Roadrunner Records I never expected this to be an album that I liked, let alone find itself in my Top 20. Previously, the output of French metallers Gojira had left  Continue Reading »