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Acid Mammoth – Under Acid Hoof (Heavy Psych)
I’m forever trying to expand my music tastes. Sometimes successfully, sometimes not. I might go on a week long binge of Avant-Garde Opera only to find one that really sticks (Check out Le Grand Macabre...
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SL Theory – Cipher (Rock Of Angels Records)
SL Theory is the brainchild of Greek multi-instrumentalist Sotiris Lagonikas, Co-founder of the bands What’s The Buzz? And Double Treat and a former member of six piece ‘Four Wheel Drive’. Based out of...
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Serpent Noir – Death Clan OD (World Terror Committee)
An atmospheric guitar piece opens ‘Death Clan OD’ with ‘The Black Knighthood Of OD’ before Serpent Noir launch a full-on attack on the senses. ‘Cutting The Umbilical Cord Of Hel’ is a brutal affair and...
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Arrakis – Technontology Vol.1 (S/R)
Greek instrumentalists Arrakis formed back in 2012 and are firm believers in tripping through the endless musical universe via the medium of music. Regularly posting demos and jams online for all to...
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On Thorns I Lay – Threnos (Lifeforce Records)
This is the 9th album by this 25 year old Greek band. Granted this may be the first album of theirs that I’m actually listening to, but I was aware of their existence owing to their contemporaries...
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Dexter Ward – III (No Remorse Records)
So yes, it would be a little less formulaic if a band named their fourth or second album “III”, just to mess with people, but in the cynical world we live in the joke would no doubt backfire on the...
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Nox Formulae – Drakon Darshan Satan (Dark Descent)
And so the sound of song birds bounced around the forests, the scent of verdant, leaf-strewn soils drifting high into the pristine woodland canopy just as…. The clawed hand of Satan ripped through the...
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Fallen Arise – Enigma (Rock Of Angels Records)
Fallen Arise are a Greek Melodic Symphonic Metal band who are now fronted by fabulous British Vocalist Fiona Creaby. Also the vocalist in in Apparition, her classy, note-perfect, mature vocals show...
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Firewind – Firewind (AFM Records)
My penchant for this Greek metal outfit is well known within my circle of friends as I adore every album this exceptional band has released in the last two decades and whilst I do have my favourite...
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Death Courier – Necrotic Verses (Transcending Obscurity Records)
This Greek band has been around since the mid-80s which is surprising to me considering my penchant for old school death metal especially of the underground variety and my continual trawling to find...
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Hail Spirit Noir – Eden In Reverse (Agonia Records)
Transcending the norms of progressive blackened extremity Greek act Hail Spirit Noir continue their exploratory sonic narrative carved out on three previous exhilarating releases whose last album,...
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Acherontas – Psychic Death – The Shattering Of Perceptions (Agonia)
Stalwarts of mysticism and Hellenic blackness Acherontas should really need no introduction to the initiated. Led with unswerving passion by V Priest since formation in 2007 they have a plethora of...
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Ephemeral – VII (S/R)
Ephemeral is a three-piece Melodic Death Metal project based out of Thessaloniki in the northern reaches of Greece. With its main core composing of E2 (vocals/guitar/bass/orchestration), Angel...
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SepticFlesh – Infernus Sinfonica MMXIX (Season of Mist)
What I’m really gutted by, is the fact that I only watched the first 20 minutes of the video before I had to get back to doing some work and by the time I got another chance to spend a couple hours...
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Katavasia – Magnus Venator (Floga Records)
There is something sublime about Katavasia’s sophomore album, a majesty that flows out from the nine tracks that is probably down to the experience within the ranks of its members that has come from...
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Sacred Outcry – Damned For All Time (No Remorse)
Now here’s an album that’s taken a while to get completed – about 20 years in fact! The majority of this release was demoed up back in 2001, but the band were put on hold and the members went off to do...
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Prometheus – Resonant Echoes From Cosmos Of Old (I, Voidhanger Records)
Despite pushing out a couple of demos in the late noughties, it wasn’t until 2017 that Prometheus birthed a full album. Rather than steal fire from the gods, this particular Prometheus borrow...
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Kosmovorous – Glorification Sermons (I, Voidhanger Records)
Forming in 2013 one has to wonder how on earth it has taken this three-piece German / Greek entity a whole seven years to release their debut EP. Maybe perfectionism has hindered it all, maybe they...
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Kevel – Mutatis Mutandis (I, Voidhanger Records)
Kevel may, or may not be, named after the large cleat fitted to a ship used for securing ropes. That may not be the most ‘metal’ of band names, or maybe it is, but nobody should question their ability...
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Yoth Iria – As The Flame Withers (Pagan Records)
The band name of this Greek act may be unfamiliar to you but the duo within its ranks are certainly not, comprising Jim Mutilator (ex-Rotting Christ up to 1996) and The Magus (Necromantia and also...
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