Review: Dvster – Hexenwerk (EP, 2024) | Black punk, dungeon synth

  Band info Band: Dvster Album: Hexenwerk Released: August 21st, 2024. Genre: back punk, dungeon synth. Location: Germany. Review Today we present you a charming little discovery from this wonderful cabinet of oddities that is independent black metal. Germany-based project Dvster may be one of the most surprising variations of this long-known musical direction. This […]

Review: Goblin Soap – Goblin Offensive (Full album, 2024) | Blackened punk

At times, there are bands which present you with such a complex mix of genres that you don’t really know what to expect. Goblin Soap is one of them! A mix of blackened hardcore, d-beat, and synth coming straight from a dungeon synth album, distorted screams, what do you say? With three instrumental tracks, synths for […]

Review: yell. – Ostatnia Godzina (Full album, 2024) | Dark punk

Black metal is often the music of nature where the artists come from. In the case of yell, it’s eastern Poland, whose forests are getting smaller every year. In the album Last Hour from this year, the theme of forests will recur quite often, but it will not be an idyllic fairy tale, but full of […]

Review: The Dirty Looks – “Second Guessing” demo & two live extracts| Proto-punk

  Manchester has recently welcomed a new proto-punk project devised by five femmes: The Dirty Looks. In May they released their most recent demo, and we have been meaning to introduce you all to them ever since. The day has come, and we thought to bring not only Second Guessing, the above-mentioned one-single demo, but […]

Review: Defenestrate – Sobek (Full EP, 2024) | Blackened punk

It’s blackened punk Sunday y’all! And to properly celebrate, we got the last work by one of the (less rare than what many people might think) young four-piece NY band Defenestrate, which presents themselves as students from the Suny Purchase College. They show to be staunchly antifascist so we can only be joyful to see […]

Review: Wretched Blessing – “Anathematic” (Official video, 2024) | Black/death/hardcore

A few weeks ago we introduced you all to a debuting project bringing a high-quality mix of extreme and punk-related genres, the US-based duo Wretched Blessing and its first EP. Well, we have them back today with an official video for the sludge-driven song – extracted from this very release – “Anathematic”! Devised, created and […]

Review: Desert Heretic – Infernalis (Full album, 2024) | Black metal

Desert Heretic has returned! We had the honour of releasing this project’s first EP in early 2022. Now they are back with their first full-length, Infernalis“, with even more of what we loved in their first release – that is, very violent and serious black metal with a lot of melodies, traces of thrash metal […]

Review: Ragum – ‘Beyouv’ (Full album, 2024) | Grindcore

Ah, grindcore! It’s always refreshing to have a barrage of short songs and barked vocals after some of our more usual long-form black metal menus. Today’s piece, however, is even more welcome than usual, for Ragum, our guests for this “beautiful” Monday, are a band from the city of Haifa in occupied Palestine/”Israel”, and outright […]