Category ALBUM
Those wonderful people at Bad Mood Man Music and Solitude Productions continue to do an excellent job in promoting the best in Russian doom, and the very welcome re-issue of Amber Tears long since unavailable 2006 debut is their latest… Continue Reading →
Somehow I keep seeming to pick up long discs with long songs for review and this is no exception. P.H.O.B.O.S. from Paris play pretty much instrumental material (with the exception of a few low vocal mumblings kept well in the… Continue Reading →
Featuring musicians who have been a part of bands like Skullview, Nocturnal Torment, Chronic Disorder and Invasion, this is a rather different musical operation. The style is a hybrid of stoner/sludge/doom and classic Southern rock based on their older influences… Continue Reading →
Originally called Asylum this Italian death metal band has released a debut album of technically inspired death metal that owes as much to Cynic as it does to the newer acrobatic guitar wizardry of bands like Fleshgod Apocalypse and Gorod…. Continue Reading →
I reviewed Abbey ov Thelema’s 2011 album “A Fragment ov the Great Work”, and questioned whether it was a case of genius or insanity. By way of preparation for this promo, which itself is intended to precede a conceptual album,… Continue Reading →
Fatum Aeternum have appeared at the International Gothic Festival, which gives a strong clue as to their style. My interest was aroused immediately. What I heard was something between strange and eccentric. It was certainly distinctive and like entering the… Continue Reading →
It’s been interesting charting the course of the Ukrainian BM sound this past decade or so; the rise and fall of Hate Forest; Drudkh’s journey from raw and obscure beginnings to mainstream popularity on a major label, and the seemingly… Continue Reading →
Everyone has their own particular opinion when it comes to black metal. Some opt for the very basic lo-fi attack with simple repetitive riffing, some go for the more grandiose approach with full synth based orchestral backing and choirs, and… Continue Reading →
When this arrived I was somewhat entranced by all the cover art which suggests something from space plummeting to earth. It was especially profound as we were getting reports of meteor showers lighting up the skies and I was starting… Continue Reading →
One look at the cover art and logo style and I was rather unimpressed it has to be said as this one man death metal project from Brazil has relocated to London and added new musicians (from Greece and Cyprus)… Continue Reading →
If you hunt out any promo pictures of Ukrainian band Narrow House you might be forgiven for thinking we are about to step into flouncy goth metal territory. Thankfully, though, we are deep into funeral doom here. Deep in. With… Continue Reading →
The renowned Dan Swanö has mixed and mastered this old school death metal album at Unisound so the sound is top rate, gnarly and drenched in gooey bass and drum slime from the off, which eventually starts with “The Battalion… Continue Reading →