Bulldozer : IX

Let's be honest.

That is one terrible album cover.

I certainly never would have picked this up if someone hadn't forced it on me, and that would have been a sad mistake as, despite the Sean Connery-playing-Doctor Strange fellow gracing the front cover(I'm afraid he may be the singer), Bulldozer were really an excellent thrash/black metal band who most people reading this site are probably more familiar with than me- my knowledge of 80's metal is all kinds of spotty. Suffice to say they're awesome: a driving, pounding (cape-wearing) metal beast. Listen if you haven't heard.


I X

Smohalla : Smolensk Combustion & Nova Persei

Experimental French black metal, with an emphasis on the genre's atmosphere rather than harshness. Weirdly melodic, filled with odd effects and chants. Nova Persei is based on a H.P. Lovecraft story (Beyond The Wall Of Sleep)-- and there's definitely nothing wrong with that.

Nova Persei

Smolensk Combustion