AUTOKRATOR: Persecution Release year: 2021Label: Krucyator Productions Continuing with their brand of stern, harsh and vicious death metal (with hints of black metal here and there), French Autokrator are back with the successor to their 2018 album, Hammer Of The … Continue reading Persecuting Autokrator
REGARD EXTREME: Ars Veterum Release year: 2021Label: Steinklang Records French Regard Extreme – or Regard Extrême if we’re being pedantic, but it’s spelled in the former way on the cover and spine of the album – could be called “grand … Continue reading Regard Extreme’s ancient art
IDOLOS: Náa Release year: 2021Label: Non Posse Mori They’re back, those magnificent envoys from the stars, Idolos from Venus. The twosome, whose terrestrial manifestation is located somewhere in France, have thus far released one EP, Ahi Cab (reviewed here). Theirs … Continue reading More messages from the stars
It’s not every day you come in contact with extraterrestrial beings, is it? But that’s just what happened to me last summer, when a duo of Venusians calling themselves Idolos contacted me – through something as mundane as social media. … Continue reading Wisdom from the stars – the words of Idolos
IDOLOS: Ahi Cab Release year: 2020Label: Anthrazit Records/Wolfmond Production Basically, there are two ways the name Popol Vuh might be familiar to you: you’re into old German psychedelic rock, or you’re into the mythologies and epics of ancient peoples. When … Continue reading They came from the stars…
AUTOKRATOR: Hammer Of The Heretics Release year: 2018/2019Label: Krucyator Productions Apparently, on earlier releases French Autokrator’s style was a mixture of death metal, doom metal and drone. I say apparently, because this is the first album I’ve heard by the … Continue reading Autokrator hammering heretics
Only Death Is Real 