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Carpathian Forest, one of the most well-known black metal legions of Norway is with this release presenting a pretty mediocre piece of plastic. The opener “Skjend Hans Lik” is – as you probably already have guessed – taken from 2003′s multi-platinum selling (just kidding!) album “Defending The Throne Of Evil”. Here we get the chance [ Read More ]
One of my main theories in life is that one shouldn’t complicate things more than necessary. This is something that Danish metal act Defecto most likely agree with me on wholeheartedly. Despite mixing rock and metal with progressive enhancements, these guys manages to make the entire soundscape sound natural and genuine. Not complicated at all [ Read More ]
Knowing your limitations in life is one hell of an important lesson to learn. Things might go downhill fast otherwise, unless you gain this valuable experience. This is something that can be applied to Human Sculpture and their first release “Our World/Torn Down” in particular. They are aware of their current limitations. This band from [ Read More ]
Upon first listening to this album, I thought I would be in for another ride around the death metal cliché’ world. Upon listening a few more minutes, I found I was quite mistaken, and found to my pleasure that this was definitely not the case, I found something inspiring, inventive, and rebellious. Ok, so the [ Read More ]
Silliest album cover of 2006? Maybe, but there’s a good reason for it. You see, the German metal machine kind of caught everyone by surprise with this release, by abandoning some of its much associated power metal sound in favour of a more hard rock-oriented feel. The ending result turned out to be an album [ Read More ]
Ever had a nightmare? I’m sure we all have, some especially gut wrenching and terrible we wake in the night trembling with sweat. The next day, it still invades us. Well, that’s what Wintersun does as well. This may make them seem a Black Metal Band. In a way, they are, in a way no. [ Read More ]
Devilish Impressions is a Polish blackened death metal band that adds creativity to the subgenre by including melody and occasional keyboards to the music. Passionate melodic guitar solos are sparsely used throughout the album, but they also include clean vocals every once in a while, which actually hurt the music. Every single song on Act [ Read More ]
(This review was originally published in 2005.) Audiovision is a new Swedish band (or project?) centered around Narnia’s frontman Christian Rivel and Lions Share’s guitarist Lars Chriss. The rest of the band is made up of Mikael Höglund (Thunder, Great King Rat) on bass, Thomas Broman on drums and finally; Andreas Lindahl (Loch Vostok, ex-Platitude) [ Read More ]
(This interview was originally published in 2009.) The somewhat blackened death metal unit Ghamorean was formed as early as 1997, but it wasn’t until 2005 that the debut release of this Swedish metal band arrived via the much-critized Karmageddon Media. In december of 2008 the second offering entitled “Eon Eschatos” was unleashed upon the world, [ Read More ]
When approaching a self-produced album by a band associated with black metal, I rarely expect it to have a sound as clean and as solid as the sound featured on Against the Plague’s debut LP, The Architecture of Oppression. Had previous knowledge of said album not existed, I would have sworn that I had been [ Read More ]
