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RockmusicRaider Newsflash - Zornheym - The Opposed It is not easy to secure the publication of a video around the RockmusicRaider office. But there are exceptions to the rule, as always. And one of those exceptions is the (kind of) new Swedish Symphonic Extreme Metal band Zornheym – signed to Non Serviam Records.

They created a somewhat gory and haunting video expression called The Opposed, telling a story of a possessed and violent inmate of a mental institution. This nicely follows their overall concept or storyline centering around the horrors of just such an establishment and its sorry occupants.

Apart from a stellar mix of symphonic meets meaty metal, the video itself is of outstanding quality.… Got hooked? Raid this some more...

Stortregn – Singularity (2016) – Review

Posted on 15 June 2016 by RockmusicRaider — Leave a reply

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Stortregn Singularity Album Cover It looks like the City of Calvin in Switzerland is a haven for Black Metal. RockmusicRaider just covered Rorcal – a somewhat extreme, very black pot of this kind of #metal ale – and now we are finding more of that. Not sure if the nice and politically correct people around the UN compound are aware of that. Or perhaps they are secretly part of the audience pouring blood over themselves? Who knows.

What strikes me with the Swiss band Stortregn right from the start is the guitar work. Straight from Heavy Metal heaven. Heavy Metal?? Nothing in their 3rd full length album Singularity could be farther from the truth.… Got hooked? Raid this some more...

Darkend – The Canticle of Shadows (2016) – Review

Posted on 11 June 2016 by RockmusicRaider — Leave a reply

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RockmusicRaider Review - Darkend - The Canticle of Shadows - Album Cover Ah, the devil communicates in Italian. How very fitting: Black Metal moving closer to Rome, spiked fists and all. But then Darkend are speaking in tongues on The Canticle of Shadows – many tongues. Mixing English with Italian, French, Latin into the fray. A real tower of Babylon, but what else would you expect from the devil? Right?

Dissonance at every corner, monologues and a weird Lovecraft-esque type of nightmare Black Metal of the melodic kind. Some of that stuff is very reminiscent of the liturgical Batushka, keeping you unhinged like Myrkur at every turn of this stony path with a mighty splash of Cradle of Filth, Rotten Christ and Dimmu Borgir. … Got hooked? Raid this some more...