With the band drawing its three members from as far afield as Cyprus and Finland but now based in the UK, this debut EP was originally released as a single-sided 12″ single by the Iron Bonehead label back in 2013, but has now been picked up for digital re-issue by …
Read More »Occultation – ‘Silence In The Ancestral House’
This second album from New York trio Occultation is a dark, eerie and esoteric opus which combines classic elements of doom metal, progressive rock and ambient electronics into a package which is atmospheric, thought-provoking and strangely pleasant in more or less equal measures. Ploughing a furrow somewhere between the darkest …
Read More »Zom – ‘Flesh Assimilation’
This debut album from Dublin dark metallers Zom – they’ve previously released a demo and a 7″ single, both to great acclaim in this particular corner of planet mosh – is dark and murky as you can imagine the deepest parts of the foulest sections of the River Liffey to …
Read More »Zom to release debut album in November
Irish blackened death metal trio Zom are to release their debut album, ‘Flesh Assimilation’, through Dublin-based Invictus Promotions on November 24. Featuring cover artwork by renowned artist Zbyszek Bielak, the album is the follow up to a previously released demo and a subsequent 7″. In a statement, the band said of …
Read More »Solstice – Death’s Crown is Victory (White Horse)
Solstice hail from the depths of Yorkshire and have been challenging and berating the mainstream since 1991. At the helm of this mighty ship is the formidable Rich Walker who has steered the band through multiple line up changes and labels but has never bowed down to ideals of the …
Read More »Malthusian – ‘MMXIII’
"...solid and meticulous... dense, brutal and delivered with a simplistic ease..."
Read More »Gospel of the Horns – ‘a Call to Arms’
Having loaned an entire new meaning to the phrase ‘down under’, Australia’s most OTT black metallers have split up and re-united more times than PM’s esteemed editor-in-chief has brewed a mug of Horlicks – originally calling it a day back in 1996 and then again at the beginning of 2007, …
Read More »Dead Aeon – Interview
When ‘Apotheosis’, the debut EP from Monaghan’s Dead Aeon, found its way onto the stereo at PM’s recently established Ireland HQ, we found ourselves suitably impressed by what we referred to as their “brutally effective brand of blackened death metal”, and praised it as one of the best new death …
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