V/A: Brutal Africa – The Heavy Metal Cowboys Of Botswana Release year: 2019Label: Svart Records Back when I started getting into metal, in the mid-90’s, there were a great deal of exotic places metal music could come from. With the … Continue reading With brutality from Botswana
MAYHEM: Wolf’s Lair Abyss Release year: 1997/2019Label: Misanthropy Records/Soulseller Records Back in 1997, Mayhem’s comeback recordings without guitarist, founder, composer and band leader Euronymous must have seemed like a travesty to many involved in the scene – despite including three … Continue reading A return to Mayhem’s abyss
ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO: Ménage À Quatre Release year: 2019Label: Out Of Line I have long been a fan of neofolk, and the artist that got me into the genre originally was Swedish Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio, whose split with Italian Spiritual … Continue reading Foursomes with Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio
TOMB MOLD: The Bottomless Perdition + The Moulting Release year: 2017Label: Blood Harvest If Tomb Mold’s debut, Primordial Malignity (which we reviewed here), reminds one of a mixture of the guttural catacombs of Pillard-era Incantation and the demented strangeness of … Continue reading The moulting of Tomb Mold
ALGHAZANTH: Thy Aeons Envenomed Sanity/Promo ’97 Release year: 1999/2019Label: Woodcut Records Alghazanth were one of the countless Finnish black metal groups who crawled out from the woodwork during the mid-to-late nineties to offer their take on the genre. During their … Continue reading Alghazanth’s Stormgrey Visions
SLAYER: Diabolus In Musica Release year: 1998Label: American Recordings As for virtually all 80’s metal bands, the 90’s were a tough time for Slayer. Thrash metal, along with other 80’s metal styles, went out of fashion and, spearheaded by grunge, … Continue reading Perversions of Slayer
CEMETARY: An Evil Shade Of Grey Release year: 1992Label: Black Mark Productions In the early 90’s, Sweden was a veritable treasure trove of death metal. Not only were there an abundance of groups coming from Sweden, there was also a … Continue reading Cemetary’s gothic shade of death
