Album Reviews
Katla – Móðurástin
Now, this is something special. It took me a while to realise how unique this album is, but I am kind of hooked now. My apologies for being so late – the album has been [Read »]
Live Reviews
Pretty Maids + Black Swamp Water, Silkeborg, Denmark
When one of your old mates who happens to be a reviewer for the regional paper asks you if you would like to be his +1 for a gig with Pretty Maids, you’d be stupid [Read »]
Album Reviews
Panzerballett – X-Mas Death Jazz
“Dad, that actually sounds pretty bad.” Thus my eleven-year-old daughter in the car one afternoon after I had received the promo copy of X-Mas Death Jazz by German Panzerballett. There is the thing with children [Read »]
Live Reviews
Aalborg Metal Festival 2017 Day III: I Am Morbid + Destruction + Firespawn + HateSphere + Artillery + Baest + Prevail
DAY 3 There should be no doubt that today is the day both Phil and I have been looking forward to. We miss the first couple of bands (family stuff, alright!) and head on directly [Read »]
Live Reviews
Aalborg Metal Festival 2017 Day II: Dark Funeral + Myrkur + Solbrud + Orm + Deus Otiosus + Konvent + Morild + Wayward Dawn
DAY II Friday afternoon is kicked off with WAYWARD DAWN. Five young people (aged around 18 to 21) from Denmark who play old school death metal (“stereotypical for people from this part of the [Read »]
Live Reviews
Aalborg Metal Festival 2017 Day I: Invocator + Make Them Suffer + Novelists + Cursed Earth + Livløs + Road to Jerusalem
DAY I The past few months have been quite a ride in terms of the billing for this year’s metal festival in Aalborg in the north of Denmark. The first name to be announced was [Read »]
Album Reviews
Blackfinger – When Colors Fade Away
It must have been around 1990, when I first listened to Trouble. Their self-titled, Rick Rubim produced album from that year was my introduction to the band, and I was a fan immediately. I picked [Read »]
Live Reviews
Paradise Lost + Pallbearer + Sinistro @Voxhall, Aarhus, Denmark
The last remains of summer are desperately clinging on to life as autumn nears near. Fitting, it would seem, to head to Aarhus to listen to Halifax’s kings of gloom, Paradise Lost and their two [Read »]
Album Reviews
Cradle Of Filth – Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness Of Decay
I imagine that keeping a band like Cradle Of Filth afloat must be a challenge. Your foundation is black metal, and yet, you have managed to titillate the mainstream with songs that appeal to the [Read »]
Album Reviews
Arch Enemy – Will To Power
With more than ten full-length albums into their portfolio, one has to acknowledge that ARCH ENEMY are stronger than ever. There was a time when I thought that they were a light-weight, pop death metal outfit [Read »]