Jupiter Variation

I guess anyone who is a regular "crate digger" has experienced a moment which could very well have been a scene coming straight out of the High-Fidelity movie. While paying my last (for this year) visit to my local record store I noticed the unusual (for that store) sound of Black Metal coming out of the loudspeakers. Asking about further information I was told that what was being played was the debut release of Gravpel, a local antifascist Black Metal group. It didn't take m

The selections for this week are more diverse than usual. Despite the fact that the majority of promos arriving at my mailbox are (extreme) metal related, I would never refuse a listen to a good quality release. Scepter of Eligos - Inverted Illusions Scepter of Eligos are a trio coming from Denver, Colorado who took the inspiration for their name from their frontman´s occultist endeavours. Eligos, according to Aleister Crowley, is a Goetic demon that is said to appear on a wi

Times are (still) very busy but I am still trying my best to reserve some moments for writing and post some overdue reviews. Three, but nevertheless noteworthy albums are what we present this week. Et voilà... Plague Weaver - Ascendant Blasphemy Plague Weaver is a Black/Doom metal band from Canada created back in 2018. They had released their debut EP in 2019 which was followed in early 2020 by another EP named ‘Through the Sulphur Eyes’. In 2020, after adding a new vocalist,

2020 may be soon coming to its end but apparently still has to offer some noteworthy albums. Promos of upcoming releases, most of them due for the first quarter of 2021 are already arriving in my mailbox. For the last blog post of 2020, I have selected 7 of them. Enjoy! Ablaze My Sorrow can be considered as scene veterans as they have been active since 1993. After a disbandment in 2006 and a reformation in 2012, February 2021 will see them releasing their new record Among Ash

Sometimes just by looking at an album cover or even considering the record company that is behind a specific release, you immediately (and) instinctively know whether what you are going to listen is good or not. This is what I thought as soon as the second song, the raging "The Burning Son" kicked off. Conduit is the debut album by Proscription due next week by Dark Descent Records (a company which as I implied in the beginning of my text has not given us any mediocre or subp

Snakeblade is (yet another) one man project created to act as an artistic refuge and to channel creativity during the global pandemic times. Its creator describes it as "one man nerdy n'dirty black metal" however with the exception of the vocals which bare similarities to Dani Filth (from Cradle of Filth fame), I did not manage to identify further association(s) to that genre. What I "listened" instead, is technical thrash metal with a lot of progressive elements that helped