Category ALBUM
This Newcastle band has been around for 30 years it seems but releases are scarce to say the least as this is only the second full length out and was released during 2014 but has been picked up Candlelight to… Continue Reading →
Greetings fellow retronauts, old gits, and voyagers on the good ship olden times. Have you played your old Roy Harper 8 tracks so often that they have finally worn out? Have your Steve Hillage LPs spun so often on the… Continue Reading →
The first thing you notice about the debut album from Canadian Prog band Third Ion is the artwork, it’s a pretty bad-ass design, bringing back memories of old game cartridges, they’ve even nailed the old school gaming font. The name… Continue Reading →
Not sure what’s going on but I normally have a big review pile of stuff that I want to cover but of late absolutely nothing really has made me want to grab it and everything’s been a bit meh. Perhaps… Continue Reading →
“Imagine yourself by a campfire underneath the open sky, far away from the rattling of society. Nearby you notice a raven spreading its wings; croaking as it solemnly stares out across the surrounding landscape. As you turn you can hear… Continue Reading →
I used to have a very nice Graveworm t-shirt. It was purple colour with, if I remember rightly, a graveyard and a cross. The band has outlasted my t-shirt and has been pouring out gothically dark metal for 23 years,… Continue Reading →
Time for a wee history lesson folks; regular readers of Ave Noctum, or even casual viewers of the metal scene, can not have failed to notice that in the last couple of years there has been a bit of a… Continue Reading →
If you’re going to flop-flop over as many genres as possible in what is basically an extended EP, then this is a study in how high you can aim. Cave of Swimmers have been attracting no small amount of attention,… Continue Reading →
Distant Sun are a three piece from Moscow, Russia. Playing a brand of metal which could best be described as one part power metal to one part speed metal and one part thrash, the band has a heavier take on… Continue Reading →
This was one of those discs that turns up and is hard to work out what to do with, being neither extreme or atmospheric and not really to our tastes. It certainly remained unclaimed on our review lists and not… Continue Reading →
Nearly nine years after the immense album “Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead “, the reformed Skinless return with this new offering “Only the Ruthless Remain”. I am a big Skinless fan, and was more than a little excited when… Continue Reading →
Funeral doom, from the outside at least, sometimes feels like it must be on the verge of dying out thanks to a conceptual gene pool that makes UKIP policy look broad minded. As a sub-genre within a sub-genre, its sheer… Continue Reading →