Author Pete Woods
This is heady stuff and music that necessitates the lighting of incense to smother the air with fragrance and thick cloying plumes of smoke. Sol Kia are comprised of two Belgian ritualists Stephane Van Tricht who is responsible for vocals… Continue Reading →
Whilst there is no shortage of concept albums around right now dealing with the extinction of mankind due to viral and ecological effects this split EP sees two bands joining together and going right back in time to approximately 251.9… Continue Reading →
I really enjoyed last album ‘Herbslicht’ by Italian maestro Regen Graves. If his name is familiar to you this is probably due to recordings in the stratosphere of doom with the likes of Tony Tears and Abysmal Grief. When working… Continue Reading →
At last, it’s great to be back and about bloody time. Some Dutch courage no doubt helped those of us still not 100% certain about shedding the masks and dispensing with the social distancing, which totally went out the window… Continue Reading →
Among other things this US based quintet’s 4th album looks at the ever-increasing possibility of our planet’s destruction along with “shattered illusions and longing for the numbing comfort of death.” Yay happy music time. Seriously though it’s not worth getting… Continue Reading →
It should come as no real surprise that these particular Sombre Figures reside largely in anonymity. All we have to go on is that they are Finnish and comprise of U on drums and S on everything else. Relatively new… Continue Reading →
In Australia The Slow Death occurs as a result of listening to funeral doom. Many who practice this dangerous rite wander off into the outback never to be seen or heard of again. Indeed, there is reputedly an elephant’s graveyard… Continue Reading →
I could have sworn I had tackled Dutch ‘whisperers’ Fluisteraars in the past review wise but realised I had been getting them muddled up with countrymen Fluisterwoud who actually split up in 2009. An easy mistake I guess but one… Continue Reading →
Back once more into the secret underground bunker beneath snow-capped mountains that is the domain of the Helvetic Underground Committee. Here we have the ghastly Lykhaeon, a duo comprising of members of acts such as Dakhma, Ungfell & Arkhaaik among… Continue Reading →
With their olden Latin ligature scripted name and the album artwork, I first assumed this Portland Oregon based quartet were going to be playing that cavernous metal ov death style. Then I got rather excited seeing that three of them… Continue Reading →
What do you do when your band reaches it’s 25th anniversary? Well in the case of Czech group Avenger, split them up and change their name due to friction among the ranks. No doubt the full story is an interesting… Continue Reading →
No doubt I was not alone in looking forward to see GosT when electronic artist James Lollar was unceremoniously sent scuttling back home by Covid, future dates scuppered. It’s a familiar story and it only just seems that things are… Continue Reading →