German metal quintet, Venues, started as a post-hardcore band and released their debut LP in 2019 before charismatic singer Nyves departed along with one of the guitarists. Losing the lead…
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Ukrainian death metal wizards, Brilliant Coldness, tag their music as academical death metal on Bandcamp, although that could be a translation issue. Yet it might also be an apt description…
Iceland produced a masterpiece of progressive metal last year with Cult of Lilith treating us to a debut album of genre-bending complexity and ambition. Now it’s the turn of Ophidian…
Víðir “Mýrmann” Thrastarsonand is a painter, philosopher and musician and the sole force behind Sorg. While most of his fellow Icelanders abandoned fishing to take up investment banking at the…
London duo, Sectlinefor, take pride in antagonising a live audience of metalheads and pissing off metal purists. Their cartoonish appearance, miscegenated metallic dance music and camp disco callisthenics are as…
The guvnor here at SBR, knowing my love for bands such as Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride suggested I review this one, and although I’ve never followed Draconian very…
Spanish quartet, Bonecarver, spearheaded Madrid’s brutal death metal (BDM) scene under their former name of Cannibal Grandpa before Unique Leader Records came calling with the offer of a record deal…
The turn of the twenty-first century has seen the emergence of many black metal multi-instrumentalists under various monikers. To pick out a few, you don’t need to look any further…
They say everyone has a novel in them. But you could say the same thing about black metal. Anyone with half an intellect and a passing interest in music has…