Category ALBUM
I don’t know this band, but the way they’re being written about I feel that I should. How does a band return for its debut album? This lot from California apparently have. I can’t say I’d heard of the bands… Continue Reading →
Among my favourite pasttimes I would have to say trawling Bandcamp is one of them. Particularly Grind and its various forms. I like the nastiness and the envelope pushing extremity this platform offers. Sure, I find a lot of pure… Continue Reading →
Part of the fun of review writing is coming across something good completely unexpectedly. Black Moon Mother from Nashville, Tennessee, and their debut Illusions Under the Sun definitely were a very positive surprise. The album cover with its golden lettering… Continue Reading →
Sometimes a band gets the crappy end of the reviewing stick just because of timing. I mean can you imagine trying to review a black metal album when you really, really can’t face much music at all. Hence the lateness… 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 →
The Monolith Deathcult’s formula is one that would miserably fail in the wrong hands. A sonic carpet bomb of death metal with cinematic samples, waves of electronic pulses, orchestral sweeps and industrial structures… and even a sense of humour. On… Continue Reading →
“Fuzzy doom shoegaze dreamsludge” is a hell of a lot of words to use in order to describe a band, however, Berlin based Canadian duo Nadja require just that to describe the soundscapes they’ve been crafting over the last 16… Continue Reading →
The recent history of Egyptian blackened death metallers Crescent is a tad convoluted as their original founder and drummer Amr Mokhtar departed the ranks alongside long standing bassist Moanis Salem, the former being replaced by Julian Dietrich who recorded the… Continue Reading →
Okay, I’m beginning to think there is some sort of conspiracy at work. Another review, another band I’ve never heard of, again, it’s a pretty bloody good album, and again, it hails from Sweden? How on earth does that land… Continue Reading →
Almost 30 years, 5 albums on, our man from Naglfar brings us 7 pieces of death worship. So suitably our celebration in honor of death starts with the bells and a Burzum like fuzz to get us in the mood…. Continue Reading →
This German black thrash band has an extensive discography with eight previous albums, numerous splits and EPs and a slew of live albums too and despite this fact are probably still as underground now as they ever were, though with… 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 →