Tag: Hammerheart Records
The Über Rock Singles Club – March Madness (Part One)
Holy fuck, where is the time going? It seems like only a blink of an eye since we were trying to recover from the new year hangovers and yet here we are beginning the merry month of March, with Spring supposedly just around the corner to chase away the winter darkness… and at ÜRHQ that can mean only one thing – another excuse to indulge in some musical madness and share with you, our beloved readers, our pick of the hottest sounds that have been spinning on our death decks and burning up our eardrums over the past week or so! So, let’s jump straight in, shall we?
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Slaughter The Giant – ‘Depravity’ (Hammerheart Records)
Today Jonny B was greeted by an email that claimed to be an album from “Belgium’s best kept secret” which immediately got him thinking about what he could remember Belgium is famous for… Chocolate, Tintin and Poirot were the first things to come to mind but JB can certainly say that melodic death metal is not something that would have made the list had he carried on. Yet here he sat with the debut album from Slaughter The Giant which promises to be an impressive display of melody and brutality combined to form the perfect weapon to tackle even the largest foe. The end result is ‘Depravity’ and it hit the shelves just in time for Halloween, which is fairly apt!
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Ereb Altor – ‘Vargtimman’ (Hammerheart Records)
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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