Year: 2025Label: Voodoo Canapé I quote UK act The Zipheads’ website for a description of their style: “The Zipheads play Rock’n’Roll infused with punk, taking influence from the founding fathers of the 1950s like Little Richard and Chuck Berry, via … Continue reading THE ZIPHEADS: Rock ‘n’ Roll Renaissance
Legendary heavy metal singer, front man and larger-than-life persona Ozzy Osbourne (1948-2025) passed away yesterday at the age of 76. News of his passing came mere weeks after his final concert, the massive Back To The Beginning event in Birmingham, … Continue reading In memoriam: Ozzy Osbourne
Year: 2025Publisher: Abraxas PublishingOriginal title: Against the Light – A Nightside NarrativeAvailable in: English, Finnish and possibly other languages Kenneth Grant (1924-2011) might be the most influential occultist since Aleister Crowley. Grant also represented a significant link in the chain … Continue reading Grant, Kenneth: VALOA VASTEN – YÖPUOLEN KERTOMUS
Year: 2025Label: In Illo Tempore/Gladivs Records Taking their name from a short sword used by ancient Greeks, multinational Xiphos (not to be confused with the other Xiphos we’ve covered before) appropriately put their thematical focus on Ancient Greece. Though there … Continue reading XIPHOS: The Age Of Alexander
Year: 2025Label: Napalm Records British extreme metal legend Cradle Of Filth’s career has been a weird one. Up until and including Midian (2000), they were on a serious roll without so much as a single miss. Midian is actually a … Continue reading CRADLE OF FILTH: The Screaming Of The Valkyries
The story of Beltane Fire is an odd one. Way back in the late 70’s, in the UK, a rockabilly band called The Blue Cat Trio were formed. By 1979, original vocalist Dave Edmunds left (to launch a not-unsuccessful solo … Continue reading From the Vaults #17: Different Breed
It’s pretty amazing when you think about it. Three years into their recording career, British heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath released their fourth album. Which at the same time is their fourth consecutive iconic album. In those early years, Black … Continue reading From the Vaults #15: Vol 4
Release year: 2024Label: Vicious Witch Records With a name like Thrasherwolf, you’d be forgiven if you assumed this UK group play thrash metal. However, nothing could be further from the truth. If I had to pin a genre name to … Continue reading THRASHERWOLF: Inside The Sickened Mind
Release year: 2024Label: Ambirial Mvsic Productions/Misantropia Records According to a statement included in the booklet of this album, Enter The Seasonal Ritual is, and I quote, “more a soundtrack to an unmade folk horror film rather than a conventional album.” … Continue reading THE CULT OF SUNLIGHT: Enter The Seasonal Ritual
Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum Sutcliffe No More? Time to get with the program if you still haven’t heard: seminal UK power electronics outfit Sutcliffe Jugend called it a day in 2019, and after a short stint as Slaves No More, … Continue reading SUTCLIFFE NO MORE: Cute
