Rebel Extravaganza

Heavy Metal And Other Occasional Musics And Cultures

admin

Album Reviews

Album Review: Ofermod – Mysterium Iniquitatis

OFERMOD are one of the OGs of the Swedish black metal scene, dating all the way back to 1996. Despite that, this new album, their fifth, is the first one I’ve really listened to. Guess I’ll have to look up the back catalog, because Mysterium Iniquitatis is about as pure and classic a Nordic black metal album as I’ve heard this year. These guys hit all the right notes here…everything just sounds pure. It’s not the most extreme sound, but it’s far from commercial – there’s melody, but also brutality – there’s variety, with each song having its own identity. […]

Music News

Deliberate Miscarriage unleash their debut of death metal devastation, Mortuary Melodies, featuring Ingested’s Lyn Jeffs

To celebrate the festive season of 2020 they gave us the Ghost Of Christmas Blast EP and this year DELIBERATE MISCARRIAGE bring the gift of their debut full length album, Mortuary Melodies. The three songs that made up the …Blast EP have spawned a host of virulent, violent offspring, eager to drown your winter nights in blood. Savagery, sickness and relentless force unleashed, DELIBERATE MISCARRIAGE have crafted an album of pure death metal destruction that will carve its name into your cold, dead heart. Since a shared love of the heinous and heavy brought bassist/vocalist Charlie Rogers (ex-Sodomized Cadaver) and […]

Album Reviews

Album Review: Untamed Land – Like Creatures Seeking Their Own Forms

A solo project from Akron, OH’s Patrick Hern, UNTAMED LAND was touted as (no word of a lie) “…the worlds very first metal band incorporating the feral sounds of classic, old western cinematics…” when 2018’s Between The Winds came out, and I laughed about it back then. That this outright falsehood is still being used to promote UL has now reached the point of irritation for me. DIABLO SWING ORCHESTRA and ARABOT have injected more of an “old western” feeling from time to time into their music, and they’re from Sweden and Norway. That’s to say nothing of ACROSS TUNDRAS […]

Music News

NEGURĂ BUNGET unveil third single ‘Toacă Din Cer’

NEGURĂ BUNGET have released an edited version of the song ‘Toacă Din Cer’ as the third single taken from the Romanian black metal pioneers’ final album Zău (“Old God”). This release constitutes the band’s swansong and also concludes the “Transylvanian trilogy” as envisioned by the late Gabriel “Negru” Mafa. Zău has been slated for release on November 26. NEGURĂ BUNGET have previously revealed the cover art, tracklist, and more details of the new full-length, which can all be viewed below. Listen to ‘Toacă Din Cer’ at THIS LOCATION Zău is the legacy of drummer and mastermind “Gabriel “Negru” Mafa, who […]

Album Reviews

Album Review: Nocturnal Wanderer – Gift Of The Night

When you think of old school black metal you think of VENOM, BATHORY, MAYHEM, BURZUM…you know. If you were to say to me that NOCTURNAL WANDERER “captures the spirit of beginning days of black metal” I’d be curious, but doubtful. However, this solo project pulls it off. It’s like going back in time. I’m going to be honest, I’ve never heard of NOCTURNAL WANDERER until now, but I like what I hear, which is headbanging goodness – oldschool goodness. Black metal in its infancy, yet not so. Mellowing out here and there gives it a bonus too in my book. […]

Music News

Nechochwen unveil new track, ‘Kanawha Black’

After nearly 8 years since the release of Heart Of Akamon, West Virginia’s Nechochwen return, unveiling the title track from their impending album, Kanawha Black. Fierce melodies and heartfelt composition/riff stylings further cement the rich and powerful legacy that NECHOCHWEN has nurtured since their inception. Kanawha Black is a vibrant mix of uniquely black metal influenced aggression, up against moving classical instrumentation that unlocks an inspiring glimpse into what extreme metal can achieve. Kanawha Black will be released worldwide by Bindrune Recordings in Spring/Summer of 2022. In the meantime, check out ‘Kanawha Black’ at THIS LOCATION NECHOCHWEN Online:Bandcamp Facebook

Album Reviews

Album Review: Apostle Of Solitude – Until The Darkness Goes

Indiana’s APOSTLE OF SOLITUDE, on the outside, ticks all the boxes for what should make a great doom band. Decent cover art (if we forget the abysmal Last Sunrise of 2010 – which I can’t), they’ve been at it for well over ten years, so the lineup should be locked and loaded, and and and the band contains two members of the much-revered THE GATES OF SLUMBER… So, why doesn’t it work? The guitar tone grates from the start, and not in a good way. As a doom worshiper since the mid-late ‘80s, in all its forms, I can take […]

Music News

DUNCAN EVANS And WILDERNESS HYMNAL Stream New Album

DUNCAN EVANS (Ex-A FOREST OF STARS) and WILDERNESS HYMNAL are streaming the entirety of their new, split album Where Liars Fear You at New Noise Magazine. Listen at THIS LOCATION Order Where Liars Fear You HERE Born in Gibraltar to British-Venezuelan parents, Javier Wallis is hard to place at the best of times. A singer and multi-instrumentalist, his work as Wilderness Hymnal fuses elements of European folk, drone, post-metal, chamber music and glacial electronics into a seamless psychedelic whole. This restless and irreverent approach to genre finds him most at home in the hinterland of atmospheric heavy music shared by […]

Album Reviews

Album Review: Old Man Wizard – Kill Your Servants Quietly

First of all this isn’t 06/06/06, cut the cringy “Look how anti-God we are.” crap already. Seriously, all views and beliefs aside, it’s not even a dead horse anymore. What we have is something so overdone and past the point of bludgeoning to death there aren’t even atoms left. Take a few swings at Islam, take a few swings at Hinduism or Judaism. The lyrics here aren’t even that profound. Okay, now we’ve gotten through that, let’s carry on with the rest of this shit show. I got to the third track, ‘God Is Your Friend’, and I was done. […]

Music News

Black/Epic Metal Pioneers DARKWOODS MY BETROTHED Release Lyric Video for Intriguing New Single ‘Black Fog And Poison Wind’

The wait is almost over! Black/Epic Metal pioneers DARKWOODS MY BETROTHED cloak the world in a veil of damnation with their third single and final harbinger of doom and destruction ‘Black Fog And Poison Wind’, cut from their striking upcoming album, Angel Of Carnage Unleashed. The Finnish foursome, now featuring Tuomas Holopainen as a full member of the band and Kai Hahto (both Nightwish) as session drummer, delivers this final teaser alongside an intriguing lyric video. The record’s final song, ‘Black Fog And Poison Wind’, offers an appropriate, hard-hitting and thunderous ending to the long-awaited comeback album of the Black […]

Older Posts