Author: Iain Landles
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Nidrosian Black Metal: A brief introduction – Part One
Nidrosian? Who? What? Where? OK, let’s start with the basics. Nidaros, Niðarós or Niðaróss, was the medieval name of Trondheim when it was the capital of Norway’s first Christian kings. The settlement was founded in 997 as a trading post and served as the capital of Norway from the Viking Age until 1217.[1] Most black…
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Necromaniac – Sciomancy, Malediction & Rites Abominable
Necromaniac is a London based band which is composed of members from Sweden, Greece, Poland and Spain! They call their music ‘Morbid Metal’ and have released a couple of demos and one great EP, Subterranean Death Rising (2018). The band were formed in 2011, so this album has been a long time coming and further supports the…
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Doc Landles Top10 Albums of 2024!
Well, this is the first time I have done this publicly, so be gentle. Some comments first about how my list works, and why. We had to wait four years for this, their fourth album, but it was worth the wait. I genuinely think that this is an important release and we will still be…
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Black Metal: The demise of ‘True Cult’, 1996/97
The years 1996 and 1997 produced some of the greatest black metal albums of all time. So, for example, we have, Burzum: Filosofem, Emperor: Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk, Satyricon: Nemesis Divina, Enslaved: Eld, Gorgoroth: Antichrist & Under the Sign of Hell, Ulver: Nattens Madrigal, Immortal: Blizzard Beasts, Sacramentum: Far Away From the Sun, Vinterland: Welcome My Last Chapter, Blut aus Nord: Memoria Vetusta I: Fathers…
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KIR – L’appel du vide Review
Right off the bat for those who want to get down to business: this is an excellent album and yes, you need to buy it. KIR is a duo from Kraków, Poland, consisting of Ferment (Poroniec and all instruments except drums), Harvest (vocals), and session drums by Krzysztof Klingbein. Their debut album, L’appel du vide, (I believe…
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The New Wave of British Heavy Metal (The Deeper Cuts) Part 2
Continued … I hope you enjoyed engaging with the first five bands in these articles. Stand by for the next five. As before, these bands are alphabetically listed and not ranked – I’ll leave that to you guys. Four of these bands are, mostly, unknown to the average fan, but one at least will, probably,…
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The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (The Deeper Cuts) Part 1
Beginnings The New Wave of British Heavy Metal (hereafter NWOBHM) was heavy metal’s first sub-genre. It was primarily a British movement but that is not to say that good heavy metal wasn’t being produced around this time elsewhere. AC/DC and Accept are good examples of this. The music was initially influenced by what we…
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Satan – Songs in Crimson Review
Formed in 1981, Satan were, for a brief period, the hardest and fastest of the NWOBHM bands releasing, in 1983, the magnificent Court in the Act. The promise the band showed back then was off the scale and many a young metal fanatic, myself included, assumed that they would be ‘the next big thing’. However, like…