ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 14 FEBRUARY 2011 Perth band Mhorgl recently visited the east coast to unleash their hellish, old school black metal on appreciative audiences. With their second album Antinomian about to receive European release,…
Category: Black metal
Steel Assassins Shake Up
It would hardly be the Sydney metal scene without Steel Assassins, and it wouldn’t be Steel Assassins without a late reshuffle announcement. This year’s festival will be headlined by NWOBHM legends Raven…
THE AMENTA: The Final Curtain
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 15 JANUARY 2014 After more than a decade and a string of acclaimed releases across a range of formats, including highly-praised latest album Flesh is Heir, The Amenta will be playing…
BLACK LAVA – The Savage Winds to Wisdom
55% Black Lava’s second album starts out very similar to their debut, a long fade from silence into raw, old school Swedish-style death metal, except on Soul Furnace the tension was spread…
New Festival the Essence of Darkness
Keeping up with Canberra’s long tradition of excellent extreme music events, the first Essence Festival will take place across the weekend of 27 – 28 September at the Basement. Featuring a choice…
New album for Hybrid Nightmares
Melbourne black metal entity Hybrid Nightmares have released their second full length album. Joining their catalogue of epic EPs and 2017’s Almagest, the band has brought forth latest tome Woeful Inertia through…
Miruthan Launch Clip Ahead of EP Release
Novocastrian extreme metal entity Miruthan have unveiled a self-produced clip for their track Land of the Damned. The song serves as the first taste of their EP Cult of the Dead, available…
7th Album for Pestilential Shadows Out Next Month
The latest slab of dark brutality from Pestilential Shadows is released on March 1. Devil’s Hammer is the seventh album from the southern NSW black metal horde, and pre-orders can be taken…
Krvna Unleash New Darkness
Black metal entity Krvna has unleashed a new EP of sombre originals of epic darkness and covers of Abigor and Bathory. The Rhythmus of Death Eternal is available now, along with the…
ETERNUM: Nod to the Old School
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 30 NOVEMBER 2020 Casual, conversational and friendly, Steve Hughes sounds a very different character than the man who ranted at us ahead of his stand up tour last year….