Author: LarsNB

Preview: Full Rewind Festival 2024

Preview: Full Rewind Festival 2024

Back in the day, from 1999 to 2016, the small village of Roitzschjora hosted the With Full Force Festival. Since 2017, the festival moved to a new location and shortened its name to just Full Force. 2024 will see.. well, what exactly? A spin-off? A 

Review: Crawl – Altar of Disgust

Review: Crawl – Altar of Disgust

Bands churning their songs out with the trademark HM-2 sound will always win my heart. Crawl – who claim legendary death metal capital Stockholm their home – flavour their worship of classic Entombed and Dismember-style death metal with hints of crust and punk (“Enslaved in 

Review: Glassing – From the other side of the mirror

Review: Glassing – From the other side of the mirror

Predictabillity offers comfort. This is true for every aspect of life, up to and including music. Peole figure out which genre they like and what kind of song, album, and music to expect. This holds true for individual artists as well – when you grab 

CELESTE fuckin’ delivered @Hannover – June 14th, 2024

CELESTE fuckin’ delivered @Hannover – June 14th, 2024

Black metal how it should be. Chapeau!

Review: Darkthrone – It Beckons Us All

Review: Darkthrone – It Beckons Us All

Darkthrone always deliver. It is not their strongest work, nor their weakest, but a strange monument to persistence and another reminder that the duo will always follow their own crooked path, even if it leads into the shadows of repetition.

Review: Ontborg – Following the Steps of Damnation

Review: Ontborg – Following the Steps of Damnation

Ontborg surprised me with their latest record “Following the Steps of Damnation”: it unfolds like a frostbitten lament that slowly blooms into grim majesty and the guitars gnash with HM-2 fury (Im in love already). Ontborg weave a melodic death metal tapestry that feels both 

Review: Borknagar – Fall

Review: Borknagar – Fall

Borknagar’s “Fal”l is a refinement, weaving frostbitten aggression with sweeping melody into something both immediate and vast. It balances raw power and reflective calm, proving that the band’s maturity sharpens rather than softens their edge.

Review: Hauntologist – Hollow

Review: Hauntologist – Hollow

Hauntologist offer with “Hollow” an album that rests between the dreamlike and the dissonant, a body of work more interested in atmospheres than in momentum. Built upon the collaboration of musicians with long roots in Poland’s extreme metal underground, the record is neither a straightforward 

Review: Krieg – Ruiner

Review: Krieg – Ruiner

Krieg’s return with “Ruiner” is both an affirmation and a revelation, the kind of record that could only come from decades of abrasion, collapse, and survival within American black metal. Since the mid-90s, Krieg has become a singular entity – too raw to be ignored, too 

Review: Kings Rot – At The Gates Of Adversarial Darkness

Review: Kings Rot – At The Gates Of Adversarial Darkness

Kings Rot from Canada carry a a dour pride with “At the Gates of Adversarial Darkness”. It carries itself like a grim march through frost and shadow, with enough melodic flame to give warmth, but not enough to banish the cold. Kings Rot clearly know