Author Gizmo
When this dropped…or more accurately seeped through the bricks like mould… I felt like the Paul Spericki character in Grosse Point Blank, slamming the steering wheel in his car and exclaiming to Martin Blank “Fourteen years man! Fourteen Years!!!!” So… Continue Reading →
What is exactly is the relationship between the artist and the audience? Does either owe the other anything? When I was young and full of fire and self-righteous opinions, Cold Lake and One Second felt like betrayals. Of course they… Continue Reading →
Loather sounds like it should be a sludge/doom/post hardcore kind of band but, apparently not. And furthermore it is stated they should not be reduced to mere genre tags either. Damn that’s every reviewer on the planet done for then…. Continue Reading →
Boris. A band by necessity I dip in and out of for two reasons: Firstly, they are so prolific I can’t keep up, and secondly because they are so eclectic not everything will float my boat. They are simply one… Continue Reading →
Right, just to set things up straight from the outset, the last Church Of Misery album was actually Thy Kingdom Scum in 2013. You may have seen another one called And Then There Were None, but frankly as far as… Continue Reading →
I only really know of Texans Necrofier because of the review of their debut album hereabouts and the fact a handful of people I know have name checked them relatively recently. So pretty much blind here, but eager. ‘The Fall… Continue Reading →
I’m not going to pretend this is going to be a great, detailed in-depth review of Vomitory’s history since the late 1990s and comparing this, the Swedes’ first release since their reformation in 2018, to the older stuff. Because for… Continue Reading →
Required philosophical musing opening: In the modern world, does the concept of a ‘side project’ even mean what it used to? I mean the black metal scene is practically built on side projects, same with death, grind etc. So is… Continue Reading →
I mean black and white scratchy ink drawing cover, the name and the album title complete with K and V. And to top it off the label. You can kinda guess what slippery, fetid slope we’re on here can’t you?… Continue Reading →
‘Enkoimesion’, a lilting intro and then like drapes being pulled back ‘Black Blacker Than Black’ swaggers in. There those rich crooning tones of Ike Vil sweep in with the hook riddle deathrock riff and gorgeous backing vocals. A sardonic wit… Continue Reading →
Why? It’s a good question but not one I often ask in the context of an album; the why should be obvious. Because it’s what they were moved to do, musically speaking regardless of whether I like it, dislike it… Continue Reading →
I’ve been listening to a good lot of dungeon synth music recently, so as synchronicity is high on my life path at the moment (ludicrously so) it wasn’t much of a surprise when this dropped into the review lists. So,… Continue Reading →