EMPEROR In the Nightside Eclipse
in 1994 EMPEROR made a huge leap forward with the second release “In the Nightside Eclipse”. This was my first exposure to Emporer when it came out and I was…
SATYRICON
Satyricon: The Early Days and Formation of Norway’s Black Metal Trailblazers Keywords: Satyricon, early Satyricon, Satyricon formation, Norwegian black metal, Satyr, Frost, Dark Medieval Times, black metal history, Norwegian metal…
VENOM At War with Satan
VENOM At War with Satan is the third full length release from these unholy English pioneers of extreme metal. Released in 1984 this saw a definite increase in production values…
IMMORTAL Pure Holocaust
IMMORTAL Pure Holocaust is the second album from these Norgwegian masters of metal. Their first album wasn’t too bad but this, their second release just blows it out of the…
DARK THRONE A Blaze in the Northern Sky
I got into DARK THRONE on their first album. When I bought Blaze in the Northern Sky it hit me for six, this was nothing like their first album, whilst…
SATYRICON Dark Medieval Times
Well, this is certainly different to what we now know as Satyricon. Dark Medieval Times is their first album from 1993. The sound hits as fairly standard atmospheric black metal,…
MAYHEM Liturgy of Death
Fuck yeah, here we go again. Mayhem have recently become one of my favourite bands. I have to admit I didn’t rate them as highly in the early 90s but…
MAYHEM De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Ok things had progressed, fallen apart, been rebuilt and sensationalised a lot by the time MAYHEM was able to put out their second album. The album had been written in…