Swedish band Ereb Altor were founded in 2003 by Mats and Ragnar of the doom metal band Isole, as a continuation of Isole’s predecessor Forlorn’s style, mainly influenced by Bathory. Now our Bona freely admits he’s a bit of a Bathory fan and loved Hammerheart so he was quite eager to hear this new album from Ereb Altor, the title of which means “time of the wolf” by the way.
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Hungarian death metal band Needless was founded back in 2004 and over the years evolved into what would be an active musical group as of 2014. With a terrific blend of melodic thrash and death metal, the band fits into the melodic death metal genre along the lines of bands such as Children of Bodom and Dark Tranquility but adds a splash of black metal and elements of progressive metal as well. Their first release, ‘The Dark Spirit of Ages’, was well received by both critics and music fans alike and in 2021, the band signed with Uprising! Records.
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Despite having only formed in 2020, Finnish black metallers Grieve are proving the transcience of every aspect of life, by the fact that, despite this being their debut full-length album – they’ve previously released a self-titled EP – the combination of scene veterans V-Khaoz and Werwolf have decided to call it a day after this premiere opus and leave us with a short-lived but nevertheless obsidian legacy.
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Not to be confused with the Reading post-hardcore act of the same name, this Canadian-Spanish amalgamation plough an entirely different furrow, digging up the past faster than Tony Robinson on speed as they dredge the darkest, nastiest extremities of the deathgrind sub-genre, peeling the scabbed crusts off its bloodiest sores in the process.
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Treading a path between proto-black metal, classic hardcore and old-school speed metal, JH, the artist behind this essentially solo project, described the sound of his first full-length offering, 2018’s ‘Unholy Destruction’, as “Satanic speed”. Now, Monk will readily admit to not being familiar with that premiere opus – although he obviously checked out a few tracks on certain streaming outlets – but this follow-up, four years in the making, seems to be more or less more of the same: speed metal played at a ferocious pace, with heavy BM overtones and undertones, in terms of both its sonic and lyrical delivery.
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