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My recollection of seeing Nordic Giants live is of two men with strange headgear on a dark stage playing weird and wonderful music with a big screen mirroring the strange and at times extreme journey. This journey starts out ominously…. Continue Reading →
Whilst stoner rock is a sub-genre of music that could have been created for the sake of instrumental albums, I mean, who wants all the hassle of like remembering lyrics man, such acts are very much in a minority. There… Continue Reading →
I gotta say I am shocked that Born of Obsidian is Sheffield stalwarts Kurokuma’s first full-length release. It feels like they have been in the front ranks of the UK underground for aeons. Their 2016 E.P. Advorsus was a slab… Continue Reading →
With each release, of which there are now numerous, it seems that this “dagger” has the German collective unsheathing and showing a bit more of themselves. We are still not on 1st name terms yet but the players are coming… Continue Reading →
This may be a newly formed trio but the US band members are extremely well established in a host of other acts such as Ashen Horde, Catheter and Vimana. Such experience is always going to bear fruit when three such… Continue Reading →
A typhoon of black metal, sludge, post metal and hardcore, France’s Celeste are unwavering in the enormity of their sound. Having already laid the foundations for experimentation with the ambitious mixture of genres they’ve managed to hybrid together, they’ve spent… Continue Reading →
The Antiq label is one dedicated, in their own words, to “sound, image, video and attitude”. Silhouette sound just right to fit right in with their “dreams and visions about distant people” and “fantomatic shapes”. Yet this Montellier-based band plays… Continue Reading →
Degenerate four piece Wrath Of Man are a groove-laden Death Metal band who hail from Preston in the gloomy North West of England and feature members of All Consumed and who have also featured in Native, Sired By Hatred, Vinterhjerte… Continue Reading →
It’s thanks to writing reviews that I know about Hegerøth, and I have to say that from what I’ve heard so far, they are incapable of a bad album. This is a black metal band with control over its music,… Continue Reading →
Ever had the feeling you’re on to a hiding to nothing with trying to review an album? I was so taken with the last album by Finnish black metal/dungeon synth project Druadan Forest (the domain of V-Khaoz) that I bought… Continue Reading →
Having been relatively quiet since releasing third album “Ye Canariae Abezan” in 2017, Muert emerge from the Spanish underground once more. Formed in 2010 and describing themselves as “Canarian Terror Metal”, their raw, aggressive musical aesthetic is seemingly at odds… Continue Reading →
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band’s formation, Katatonia have released Mnemosynean, an offering to the goddess of memory. Encompassing 2 CDs, this extensive collection of rarities, B-sides, unused album songs, special edition bonuses, covers and remixes, will delight… Continue Reading →