Impiety – The Impious Crusade EP


impiety-vengeance_hell_immemorial-298x300 (169x170)The latest offering from Impiety is The Impious Crusade, offered on MCD and MLP. At just 5 tracks and coming in at just under 20 mins, this is your quick-in-quick-and-dirty-for-a-fix type of release. This is everything you know and love about Impiety, live and recorded: the speed, the riffs, the syncopation, the rhythm, the harmonies. It’s outstanding: brutal, harsh, fast, and heavy. And like with all excellent EPs, it’s an exciting taster and just not enough: the way a great album should be.Continue reading


Månegarm – Legions Of The North


ManegarmThere is one thing about Månegarm that I adore, and it’s that the band’s new release, Legions Of The North, made me wonder why they’d fallen off my radar. I listened to this and remembered how much I loved Nattväsen, and then wondered where the hell I’d put that disc. This is one band that really does release albums of consistent quality. Only one thing about this album surprised me, and that is because Månegarm is unashamedly Swedish: it’s that this release is titled almost exclusively in English. Overall, there is so much excellence here that I don’t know where to start: the structure, the writing, the performance, the vocal lines, the production.Continue reading