Author Andrew Doherty
The Man and His Machine, or TMHM, from Saskatchewan in Canada have managed six releases including this one, in their five years of existence. This is a short album at just over 23 minutes but what is lacking in content… Continue Reading →
Here we go with part II of an album, which was released last year. The claim is that this makes it “more interesting”, but I’m not really sure about that one. Part I was, I recall, a good, varied and… Continue Reading →
This was a case of an album when a switch automatically opened in my head. I realised that after wrongly thinking everything sounded the same, in fact it was a case of appreciating this band’s personal mix of styles. Rumbustuous… Continue Reading →
The only Slovakian music I knew about until now was by Abbey ov Thelema, and that’s extreme. If this monster from ONO, the band of a gentleman who operates under the name of Twisted, is anything to go by, this… Continue Reading →
Djent, twang, aim, fire … time for a bit of Periphery. There’s the fast and hardcore bit. I’m juddering to “The Price is Wrong”, the opener on the new album “Periphery III: Select Difficulty”. The battering man batters, the technical… Continue Reading →
Stoner rock was a product of the 1990s. Here we hark back to those acid-driven times with “Odile”, the second release from this Swiss six-piece. What we get is ten decent, unpretentious and varied rock songs. My initial reaction on… Continue Reading →
Type in “Ogmasun”, and you get referred to a well-known, global distributor of books and everything else besides. The publicity gives an address of “cuttysarkofficial”, which whilst being the title of the third track on this album, is a bit… Continue Reading →
This is the third album release from German black metal band Timor et Tremor. On a personal level, one of the interesting things I picked up on a was that one of the members is part of Burden of Grief,… Continue Reading →
My first association with Wolverine was an impressive and mood-filled track called “New Best Friends” on the album”Cold Light of Monday”. They’ve not been a particularly prolific band with five albums in a fifteen year period, but their music has… Continue Reading →
Numenorean is a post-black metal band from Canada. Reading that their music “embraces beauty, harshness, brutality, and melancholy in equal measure”, we are invited to draw comparison with Alcest and Deafheaven amongst others. Such description immediately made me think of… Continue Reading →
The cover of this EP from Finland’s Norns, whose releases since 2005 have involved the typical pattern of a fund-deprived band comprising a demo, participation in a split and now this, reminds me of that “Black Metal Cookies” spoof video… Continue Reading →
So obscure is the artwork and sleeve of this album that unless I’d been told in advance, I would have struggled to work out that this is the second album by VIII from Sardinia. The listening experience is entirely different,… Continue Reading →