Tag Archives: extreme metal

Artist: In Vain Album Title: Solemn Label: Indie Recordings Date of Release: 19 April 2024 After a wait of six years, Norwegian progressive extreme metal band In Vain finally return with their latest album, ‘Solemn’. Never the most prolific of entities having only released four albums until now since their 2003 inception, it has still  Continue Reading »

Artist: Arð Album Title: Untouched By Fire Label: Prophecy Productions Date of Release: 26 April 2024 It seems to me rather serendipitous to be listening to this album and writing my thoughts about it as I sit on a train from East Anglia to Edinburgh, steadily ploughing up the east coast of the UK through  Continue Reading »

Artist: Deicide Album Title: Banished By Sin       Label: Reigning Phoenix Music Date of Release: 26 April 2024 I’ve never been a fan of Deicide. I’ll happily state that right at the outset. And it’s not for any other reason that I have always thought of their music as the kind of death metal that sounds  Continue Reading »

Artist: My Dying Bride Album Title: A Mortal Binding Label: Nuclear Blast Date of Release: 19 April 2024 When a band can boast no fewer than fourteen albums over a career spanning nearly 35 years, it’s inevitable that different fans will have different favourites. It will, no doubt, depend on your age, your musical journey  Continue Reading »

Artist: Cistvaen Album Title: At Light’s Demise Label: Independent Release Date of Release: 5 April 2024 I’m a little late again to the party but such has been the impact that this record has had on me, it seemed ridiculous, bordering on the insane, not to write a review of it. My hope is that  Continue Reading »

Artist: Selbst Album Title: Despondency Chord Progressions Label: Debemur Morti Productions Date of Release: 19 April 2024 I do believe that this is a first for me, in that I find myself reviewing a musical entity from Venezuela. It’s not the first country to spring to mind when thinking about heavy music, especially the kind  Continue Reading »

Artist: Replicant Album Title: Infinite Mortality Label: Transcending Obscurity Date of Release: 12 April 2024 2024 definitely feels like it’s the year that my tastes get even heavier and more extreme. I tend to think of myself as a progressive metal fan first and foremost, but so far, there have only been precious few releases  Continue Reading »

Artist: Witch Vomit Album Title: Funeral Sanctum Label: 20 Buck Spin Date of Release: 5 April 2024 Being the weak human that I am, I finally succumbed to the increasing chorus of positivity surrounding this album and checked it out. What initially put me off was the name of the band which didn’t necessarily inspire  Continue Reading »

Artist: Protosequence Album Title: Bestiary Label: Lacerated Enemy Records Date of Release: 5 April 2024 I’m not sure what’s going on in Canada at the moment, but alongside encouraging pedestrians to use fake bricks in Vancouver in an effort to get cars to stop at crossings, there seems to be one hell of a steady  Continue Reading »

Artist: Hour Of Penance Album Title: Devotion Label: Agonia Records Date of Release: 5 April 2024 Yeck, yuck, and thrice yuck. The AI debate will rage on and on for months, years, maybe decades. Who knows where the subject will end. But, in 2024, I am one of the music fans in the camp that  Continue Reading »