Code Red is a project of a young artist playing thrash/blackened thrash. You can definitely feel the grave of the 1980s here when it comes to either thrash or black metal elements. The band can be classified as politically engaged, the artist has anti-imperialist, anti-authoritarian and anti-fascist views, which are reflected in the lyrics. And […]
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Review: Veriarmo – Kuiske (Full album, 2024) | Symphonic metal
Living in 2024 we seem to be blurring rigid lines between various sub-genres of metal. Sure one could argue that it’s always been there and an ever-ongoing thing but people in the past have been careful in how they blur the lines and in today’s atmosphere it’s easier for a smaller band/ artist to gain […]
Review: Traktat – “Subdue the Filthy Pride of History” (Video clip, 2024) | Black metal
The full album of the Bremen-based project Traktat will come out in October, and it’s definitely something worth noting. The band has released a stunning rehearsal demo, and now we present the video from their new single “Subdue The Filthy Pride of History.” Musically, it’s great black metal with mostly blasting but sometimes more laid-back […]
Review: Reva – Urban Madrigals (Full album Premiere, 2024) | DSBM, post-black
Releasing tomorrow, we’re excited to premiere Reva‘s second album, Urban Madrigals. Somewhat reminiscent of Bonjour Tristesse‘s Your Ultimate Urban Nightmare with its cover, Reva explores the “impact of modern society and its relentless pace on our lives“, delving into the duality of the social isolation we all feel and constant connectivity via the Internet. Combining […]
Review: Ba’al – Soft Eyes (Full EP, 2024) | Post-black metal
Ba’al did it again. After their album Ellipsism in 2020, they are back with an EP called Soft Eyes, with a total of 3 songs for 27 minutes and 3 seconds of complex yet stunning post-black metal. The diversity of tonalities, and the variety in the composition, from very intense phases in “Ornamental Doll” to only […]
Review: Venus 426 – Causeways Into the Night (Full album, 2024) | Noise
We wander again to a different frame of sound from the usual today presenting the premiere for VENUS – 426’s last effort named Causeways into the Night. Packed into a 12-track body of work, the queer antifascist harsh noise powerhouse shows an immense evolution and develops into a concrete and more conceptual and thick atmosphere […]
Review: Telltales and Rituals by Chained Arcana & Knights of Rain (split, 2024) | Black metal
Right now, rain is a terrifying idea for the inhabitants of Brazil. Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost Brazilian state, has been ravaged by storms and floods that have lasted for weeks and literally destroyed a large part of it, leaving hundreds dead and hundreds of thousands homeless, in the worst catastrophe in the history […]
Review: Ivory Primarch – Excruciation (Video clip, 2024) | Doom metal
Today’s premiere is Ivory Primarch, a funeral black doom band from Melbourne. The first single of their new album The Portrait is “Excruciation“, a 9′ long title, built in 5 different stages, going from regular doom to funeral doom, gaining in intensity at every new stage. The track starts with a keyboard line, quickly joined by […]
Castle Of Love – Review: Caves beneath the castle ruins (Full album, 2023) | Dungeon synth
Join us today on a little field trip into the ruins of a forgotten civilisation, deep underground and endlessly mysterious! Castle of Love‘s Caves beneath the castle ruins describes the fantastic journey through an ancient realm of forgotten history yet to be newly discovered. And while of course lacking vocals, the atmosphere of each of these […]
Review: Παγανή Κυριακή – Παγανή Κυριακή (Full album, 2024) | Blackened dungeon disco
Today is Easter Sunday for the Orthodox and Oriental Christian world who follow the Julian calendar, unlike those western Gregorian heretics, and as it’s arguably the most pagan of all Christian holy days (shhhh, don’t tell them) it’s only fitting we feature a fresh band called Παγανή Κυριακή (pronounced Pagani Kyriaki and meaning Pagan Sunday […]