• 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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  • Mausoleum Monday

    Today we witness the fading grandeur and apocalyptic end of a world Ka’Bael – Mourning In A Twilight Age

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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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  • Mausoleum Monday

    Today we visit the Woods Of Sequania, led by our guide Eternal Druid – Forest Of Illusions

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  • New Music Friday

    Up first we have the uncompromising and brilliant RABM attack of the new EP by Tumultuous Ruin – Never A Night So Dark Then the experimental but still very metal world of Veneficus Sarcina – Being And Morbidity

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  • Way Back Wednesday

    To begin not so way back to 2024 and a harrowing piece of dissonance from Iskalde Morket – Deleted Scenes From The Pandemic Ward (Self Released 2024) Then a good few years to the first album I heard from the uncompromising Norwegian black metal band Mork – Eremittens Dal (Peaceville 2017) their third album in…

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  • Mausoleum Monday

    A tale, today, of siblings Eyraske and Rosabella as beautifully told by Cavern Witch – Through The Twisted Trees

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  • New Music Friday

    Today we delve into some raw and unusual black metal from Gölgaräh – To Weave The Empyrean Chains Of Night and then into deep dreamlike mystery with the enigma of Θ – Elysian

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  • Way Back Wednesday

    From the sublime to the ridiculous. This week we revisit what turned out to be the last but superb album by UK Vikings Valafar -Wolfenkind (Self Released 2018) and the disco industrial silliness and strangeness of Turmion Kätilöt – Reset (Nuclear Blast 2024)

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