Category ALBUM
Music of an experimental shade has a special appeal, because it has an inherent possibility of going just about anywhere, of taking any possible road. I like the way experimental music takes my mind to all sorts of places, the… Continue Reading →
Entering their third decade of existence now, and having released their debut 26 years ago, Funeral’s sixth album is their first with Season of Mist. and while they have had a line-up change since recording the album, I’m going to… Continue Reading →
The name suggests a smugglers hideaway and indeed has literary ties to Treasure Island and Devon but it is actually Portugal we are heading to and a debut album that we are told should appeal to fans of bands such… Continue Reading →
Every time I review or give radio airplay to a project by Shane Embury I make some cliched comment about him being the busiest and most prolific artist in heavy music. The problem with cliches is that they care created by truths a lot of… Continue Reading →
Nobody does Doom Metal quite like Sweden. Yes, Sweden gave the world Candlemass so a precedent was set right there, but since then this great country has given the Metal world so many more striking bands under that Doom-soaked umbrella…. Continue Reading →
The body of the devil is praised in all its orgiastic pleasures and delights from these sinister Frenchmen. Active since 2008 and with 3 albums prior to this, the band are dedicated practitioners of the dark arts. The strangely entitled… Continue Reading →
This mysterious work, the second from Adoperta Tenebris, just oozes darkness with its pictures of thick forests at dusk. I noted a track called “Vultures of the Mass Grave”. Before it comes “We Were Giants”. The ambiance is that of… Continue Reading →
I’m going to stick my neck out here and say that at the moment there is no band that would produce a better or more appealing and engaging melange of melancholia and darkness than Germans Rope Sect. Their outstanding debut… Continue Reading →
Funeral winds suggest a black metal work, here with the added proviso that this album is a retrospective look towards desolate landscapes. The track titles are wistful, shadowy affairs, starting with “Black Lore of the Fens”. Now this sinister piece… Continue Reading →
UK metal quartet Jackals Backbone have been building up to their first full length release since their formation in 2016. Cutting their teeth with a series of singles and EP’s, one of which was a live recording, the band have… Continue Reading →
I gave this Spanish act a high praising review back in 2018 for Ave Noctum, and was particularly enamoured by the hostility it waged, yet tinged with a desolation that fills you with dread. The question begging is whether multi-instrumentalist… Continue Reading →
Culminating a consistent year for Belgium label Immortal Frost Productions they turn to homegrown talent from West Flanders in the form of debut album by Darkest Mind. This trio clearly wear their hearts on their sleeves and worship at the… Continue Reading →