Author Gizmo
From a quick straw poll amongst friends and friends of friends, I believe I am not the only one who had has issues with the recent output of Clutch. Whilst no one seems to doubt their live credentials, the last… Continue Reading →
“What’s this?” I asked Thee Ed as he hurriedly shoved an album at me. “Dunno,”he said casually. “Anyway, must be off…” “Didn’t it make a noise like a whoopee cushion with a leak when you accidentally stood on it just… Continue Reading →
A totally new name to me, this French hybrid crew (I think it translates roughly as See How They Fall) introduce themselves with a brooding but unspectacular four minute Prelude before they kick off properly with Wanderer Of Eternity. It’s… Continue Reading →
When Mssrs Turner (drums), Millard (bass), Hoare (Guitar) and Ward (vocals) told the world that in 2012 after, what, 17 years together and having just dropped a career best album on us, they were going full time, I bet I… Continue Reading →
You may recall how impressed and taken I was with the Shadow Kingdom debut album from US rockers Corsair, and as it came so out of the blue to me I was intrigued as to who these classy upstarts were… Continue Reading →
I haven’t really crossed paths with Moss since Cthonic Rites and Sub Templum. It wasn’t a great falling out, just that rather like Centurion’s Ghost they were a band I totally understood why they had so many enthusiastic fans but… Continue Reading →
If you took one look at this album and had to guess, I reckon most of us would go for ‘old school black metal’ as the contents. An Ildjarn friendly racket? This however is actually, according to the PR, dark… Continue Reading →
Canadian Mark R. who makes up Ov Hollowness is a busy character, this being his third album of ‘blackened atmospheric metal’ in just about as many years. High work rate for essentially a solo artist. He also seems pretty good… Continue Reading →
Look at that cover. That is a death metal album cover. Not some gore-grind pathetic rape fantasy, but a “Death Metal Album Cover.” You see that and you expect anvil pounding, brutal as fuck, heavy as Suffocation death metal. And… Continue Reading →
Ah, now this is dark ambient indeed. Irish duo From The Bogs Of Aughiska continue their soul felt exploration of natural and rural Ireland with their second album, the follow up to their self titled debut. It is a slow,… Continue Reading →
A while back I reviewed the split that De Arma did with Fen and expressed a certain amount off cautious optimism with the minor worry that they might be veering a little close to the Fen sound. Well from the… Continue Reading →
A barbarian winter out of sunny Oz was a bit of a long shot for a band I knew nothing of but, billed as epic doom and previously having had an album out on Shadow Kingdom I thought ‘give it… Continue Reading →