Author Matt Mason
Death Rock – does that name wind you up as it does me? I am just too long in the tooth and too scarred by crimpers to dig that kind of jive talking. However, our colonial friends over the Atlantic… Continue Reading →
Something nasty is stirring in the West. Bristolians Moon Reaper have been mixing up the medicine to create a murky blend of dark sludge and progginess and the E.P. Descent is the fetid result. Dirty, heavy riffs from the get go, these 5 tracks are… Continue Reading →
Underdark are a band that should be on the lips of everyone who loves brutality and beauty. I forget that they are a hidden gem for many and react with maybe a little too much enthusiasm when someone comments on… Continue Reading →
London three-piece Butcher in the Fog have been around for 8 ish years and how I have not heard of them until now is a travesty. Exonerate ME, Baby is their third full length release and they celebrated it recently at London’s beloved scene… Continue Reading →
Some twenty years into their existence French heavyweights Year of No Light are having a damn busy summer. A new album in the shape of Consolamentum and a career spanning box set of their previous 5 full-lengthers – quite an achievement after what… Continue Reading →
OK let’s address this quickly first. They use a “v” instead of a “u”. Aaaargh. This much is troooooooo I know I know I know this much is trooooooo! Right, that is out of the way – onto the tunes. Dark, drugged out Satanic Black… Continue Reading →
Synthwave a genre built on cliches and nostalgia wearing its Hawaiian shirt and raybans with pride as it shifts the gear down in a Testarossa Spider and heads for the sunset. By this stage much of the music loving world have decided whether it is… Continue Reading →
OK put the genre lists down. I am talking to myself here as well as any curious fool that reads this. To put this frankly batshit collective in a box would be a travesty. When I read the accompanying blurb… Continue Reading →
Old School Death Metal is the plat du jour at many an extremist fan’s table at the moment. It’s as if 1980’s Florida has descended on the world’s young in a flurry of hi-tops dragging a Swedish exchange student along… Continue Reading →
Is it really 4 years since I reviewed “The Horse and Other Weird Tales” by Finns Jess and the Ancient Ones? Of course time stands for Jess and chums – somewhere around 1967 in a haze of patchouli, flowers and electric kool aid. Exactly how it… Continue Reading →
Inferno have been around a good while. This Czech Black Metal ensemble have been casting their spells since 1996 and Paradeigma is their eighth full length release. This album has as its muses a triumvirate of weighty tomes – “The Red Book” by Jung , “Time Reborn” by… Continue Reading →
I do it to myself. I only have myself to blame. I read a short excerpt from a PR or label and something pricks at my core. I thrust my hand up like a needy toddler and before I know it, I… Continue Reading →