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  • Way Back Wednesday

    With the sad news of the end of their story, we take a look back to one of my first encounters with the excellent UKBM band Ante Inferno – Fane (UKEM 2020)

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  • Way Back Wednesday

    We hurtle into the void and non-Euclidian angles with the almost unfathomable Portal – Vexavoid (Profound Lore 2014)

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  • Way Back Wednesday

    Not so way back, just to the end of 2024 and my very late introduction to the work of Paysage D’Hiver – Die Berge (Kunsthall Produktionen 2014)

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  • Mausoleum Monday

    Time to step into a world of neo-classical cinematic beauty with Lacrimorphosis – Where Towers Pierce The Draconian Winter

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  • Today we’re in the plague years and one of my first encounters with the maelstrom that is Black Cilice – Transfixion Of Spirits (Iron Bonehead 2019) Public Service Announcement: It is more than likely that the normal Friday New Music reviews will not be able to go up this week. My internet is being messed

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  • New Music Friday

    A beautiful, harsh but inevitable world awaits us with Athshe – The Body Will Die Before we go though, we also take a moment to appreciate the pure love of heavy metal with Sätaniak – Demo

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  • Way Back Wednesday

    There’s not much else I suspect a lot of us will want to do today except listen to possibly the most important of the foundations upon which we all clambered to where we are now, proud fans of heavy metal.Go listen to some Sabbath and raise a toast. Rest In Power John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne (3 December 1948

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  • Way Back Wednesday

    A little late, but not quite as late as the album itself, the spectacular comeback from the one of the greatest metal warrios still out there kicking ass Leather – II (High Roller 2018)

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  • New Music Friday

    Today we smile, shed a tear and think long on many things in the exquisite folk, fantasy company of Olivia Graham – Faerie Songbook And then dive headfirst into the abyss with UKBM from the fine Nefarious Dusk – Death Beneath A Starless Sky

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  • Way Back Wednesday

    We’re all at C today (yeah yeah, I’ll get my coat). Firstly the finest melodeath band in the UK and possibly Europe in Countless Skies – Glow (Willowtip 2020) Then Taiwan’s finest, the incredible Chthonic – Battlefields Of Asura (s/r 2018) , the last international full release seen from them

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