Category ALBUM
This album is about loss. Memories, the struggle and maybe the recovery. “Mor” is the second album from the self-proclaimed doom punk band from Germany. It certainly does seem as if John Lydon has joined a heavy metal band. “Watershed”,… Continue Reading →
This band from Australia has been doing its multi metal thing since the early 1990s. This album is their fourth full release. After a harmless opener, it’s down to business with the darkest kind of death metal you could wish… Continue Reading →
It was 2015 since we last heard from these malevolent French destructors. Since they released Xeno Kaos back in 2015 they have marked their 20th anniversary and had a couple of line-up shuffles. Firstly after a few years in the… Continue Reading →
Charisma Records, as any chin stroker should know, was the legendary British home of Prog through the seventies before disappearing under the weight of assorted mergers and buy outs. Whilst not in any way associated with the original label, there… Continue Reading →
Covid –19 caused a lot of frustration for musicians. Stuck in lock down, unable to tour to promote recent releases idle hands were often put to the devil’s work. For Oslo’s Superlynx, having recorded Electric Temple their third full length in Summer 2020 they had some… Continue Reading →
It looks like the black metal seed has fallen on particularly fertile ground in and around the Netherlands. New sprouts keep appearing alongside established plants. And some of the new sprouts are growing nicely and bearing fruit, developing their own,… Continue Reading →
Despite being a bit of a fan of the Quebec scene, Ossuaire were a name I was only vaguely aware of until this EP dropped in my lap. So nice to round out the year with this. ‘A L’Aube Impur’… Continue Reading →
West Coast America seems to be growing in the traditional metal scene, as is the country as a whole. Fortress came to my attention via a debut EP and split single release with Haunt. The band name should not be… Continue Reading →
The race to become the most outlandish Metal act seems an unending task when you ponder it, but is it really? Have we reached that peak? Of course I do still hear albums that made me recoil (in a good… Continue Reading →
In the world of stoner, sludge, doom and psych I thought I had seen every form of Cannabis worship integrated into band names. Step forward Poland’s Weedpecker to tap (or is that peck) me on the shoulder. This Warsaw quartet have been in existence… Continue Reading →
Sometimes an album can totally alter your vision of music and shake your own personal taste. In 2014 Cynic’s Kindly Bent To Free Us had such an effect on me. Whilst I don’t think my musical taste will ever stop… Continue Reading →
Rochester NY’s King Buffalo have been busy during the pandemic. Following on from their “The Burden of Restlessness” release earlier in 2021, “Acheron” is the second of a planned trilogy of albums. The band ventured to Howe Caverns to record… Continue Reading →