Blooddawn – Funeral (For A Despised Icon)

This is brutal, chaotic Black Metal from the UK. Worth checking out for fans of Marduk and Anaal Nathrakh. Fast and angry, like a nuclear blast ripping through everything with a Balrog on vocals. Six tracks, one is a cover of Panzer Division Marduk. If you need to annihilate something get this slapped on at maximum volume, sit back and watch.

Black Metal is dead. In the UK at least. Seeing as though it is the place that gave birth to the genre it is as fuckin’ useless a broke-dick dog. There is no scene to speak of, just the odd one or two equally useless bands trying in vain to mimic some of the more [...]
Opening with a song title of the length Bal Sagoth would be proud of (thankfully that’s as the only comparison to draw), the imaginatively titled ‘A Glimpse of the Image of Lucifer Gleaming Beyond the Subterraneous Black Sun’ marches forth. Mid paced, it stamps away with the precision of a well oiled Black Metal machine [...]