Author Gizmo
Ah, lovely. As refreshing as a good kick to the shins from somewhere round Copenhagen way come’s the four guys that make up Anti Ritual. Blessed with the kind of chops that you suspect only come from being around a… Continue Reading →
Here’s the thing, sludge bands. You know that bit where you spend anywhere upwards of five minutes playing the same note or chord slowly over a fuzzed out backdrop? Well it sounds exactly like every other band who ever did… Continue Reading →
The first few moments of opening song ‘Boreas’ make you think that with Wijlen Wij you’re in for some serious Skepticism worship as the organ swells with the riff and fills the room. But then the clean vocals come in… Continue Reading →
Thy Worshipper are a Polish band with equal numbers of toes in the black, death and folk metal camps and a large number of line-up changes until we reach this, their second full length. It’s an odd album: Very nicely… Continue Reading →
There are some albums you dread getting to review because the previous album by the band was that rarity ‘a classic’, one just so good, so affecting, that after however many years it still gives you chills listening to it…. Continue Reading →
Once, years ago someone cited the music of Solefald as ‘music for eggheadbangers’. However with Bavaria’s well read sons Atlantean Kodex, you should never underestimate the ability of these articulate gents to produce music that as well as making you… Continue Reading →
I suspect that this may ruffle some feathers but from the first crash of a chord here, there is a question that needs to be squared up to. Philosophy 101: If Airbourne took a template from a thirty year old… Continue Reading →
Oh hell. There are some times your role sucks and this is one of mine. The problem comes when you get an album to review from a respected record company, with the PR sheet waxing lyrical and philosophical and great… Continue Reading →
Since I first made the acquaintance of the disparate group of drunkards and psyche ward escapees that make up the bumbling ball of anarchy that is Trollfest, my life has always been made just that little bit brighter. Making Korpiklaani… Continue Reading →
Hands up everyone who thinks there just aren’t enough ’70s occult rock’ bands around, female fronted or otherwise? Feeling lonely in the corner there? Good. Ok, the rest of you, hands up who thought The Oath slotted neatly into that… Continue Reading →
Taint, for all the love people had for them somehow always skipped under my radar, so I happily come to this without any ‘does it sounds like Taint ‘ baggage. What does it sound like? Well, friends, I’ve been seeing… Continue Reading →
Ah, Conan. Lords of heaviness and thunder. With Blood Eagle still pounding in our ears, and gigs on the way, we managed to grab a little email time with guitarist/vocalist Jon Davis and took stock of what the view looks… Continue Reading →