Author Gizmo
Despite having something of a cult following in the doom community, I personally have had a bit of an up and down relationship with this US doom band Pale Divine over the years. Something between their fine sounds but inconsistent… Continue Reading →
I clearly like to make things difficult for myself, otherwise why would I offer to review an album of ‘instrumental acoustic blues raga drone’? Mind you, ‘difficult’ music is a reasonable part of my musical collection, so I kinda shrug… Continue Reading →
There are some albums which I find difficult to grasp the nettle of how to review them. Case in point is Manilla Road’s 1980 debut Invasion. Basically if you’re a big fan you’ll have this already in one of its… Continue Reading →
Doro is cool. How cool is Doro? Doro is so cool she can get Lemmy to guest on a song. Singing. A duet. A power ballad duet. That’s how cool Doro is. Q.E.D. OK, now if you don’t know who… Continue Reading →
Metal is an odd thing. Take King Dude for example; not a metal bone in its twisted musical body and yet… and yet this should appeal to so many of us. I’ll leave it to the intrepid to search the… Continue Reading →
If you hunt out any promo pictures of Ukrainian band Narrow House you might be forgiven for thinking we are about to step into flouncy goth metal territory. Thankfully, though, we are deep into funeral doom here. Deep in. With… Continue Reading →
Now this is a South American curiosity to be sure. Abske Fides are Brazilian and what they play kinds of depends on which bits you pick up on. We have post hardcore, funeral doom and doom/death in the ebb and… Continue Reading →
It has been another grand year for doom, what with Altar Of Oblivion, Angel Witch and blessed Saint Vitus all delivering sermons worthy of their names and yet even in such company the ten-years-in-the-making debut by Bedemon stands very… Continue Reading →
I admit that I was first drawn to this album simply down to the name; Nettlecarrier is a strange choice and, complete with the reputation of its members (we’re talking Dirge Rep, Mannevond and T. Ciekals) the hint was of… Continue Reading →
When the vicious new Vesen album ‘This Time It’s Personal’ had finished kicking me about the room like a soggy football I was rather suprised at how keen I was to interview them, and so Ave Noctum went out and… Continue Reading →
Sludge/ drone experiments anyone? Well I’m always up for a bit of that. You know, hitting one note every fifteen seconds is hard to do well and some use it to hide shortcomings. Thankfully Swedish lot Switchblade, a core of… Continue Reading →
I think it’s safe to say that US band Hellwell like reading horror literature and pulp fiction. It’s also safe to say that Manilla Road fans will be hugely interested in this three piece as it is, basically, a Mark… Continue Reading →