• New Music Friday

    Today a simply excellent new EP, Nightspell – Darkness Spreads Around

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  • Bonus Review Day

    A belated but necessary correction of an omission and offering praise due to one of the best demos I have heard this year Barbarian Ring – Demo

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  • Way Back Wednesday

    Back to 2017 and one of my earlier meetings with the music of Dis Dapter, the mind behind the mesmeric Midnight Odyssey – Silhouettes Of Stars (I, Voidhanger 2017)

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  • Mausoleum Monday

    A battle is joined! We have the famous goblin slayer Blades of Folmär – The Endless Descent To Undying Depths and the rise of the cheese eating goblin himself Trasgo – Nightfall Who wins? Dungeon synth wins…

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  • New Music Friday

    Variety is the word of today. UKBM enigma Ghül return with a thoughtful, ambient work Ghül – A Forest, A Temple, A Grave , we go into heroic heavy metal battle with the debut EP from Bloodstone – The Ecstasy Of Battle and then simply rip reality apart with Azkaroth – Demo

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  • Our Roving Reporter (!) Andy Pountney (@shot_in_the_dark_photography2) has a fine night indeed celebrating twenty (count them) years of Burial with friends Blood Countess, Argesk and OmegaThrone there supporting Burial, Blood Countess, Argesk, OmegaThrone – Star & Garter, Manchester 30th August 2025

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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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  • Mausoleum Monday

    We take a step that grows into a story. The Ashen Codex – Sepia Realms becomes our companion on a path of a life well lived.

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  • New Music Friday

    Today is a day of black metal in three distinct forms. Firstly we have probably the breakout band of the last handful of years, the superb Blackbraid – III (review by Andy Pountney, @shot_in_the_dark_photography2 ), then the violent dark and chaotic vision of Ash Magick – Rituals Of Anathematic East and thirdly a new EP

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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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