Page 245 of 1003
Starting life in 2013 as Distillator, this Netherlands band transformed themselves in 2020 into Cryptosis. With themes about technology and the future, the band has looked to expand and grow their sound on new album “Bionic Swarm”. The dramatic “Overture 2149”… Continue Reading →
For my own amusement, I like to play a guessing game. Can I tell the genre of an album, the sound of a band, especially one I’m not familiar with, just by looking at the album cover? More often than… Continue Reading →
Wardruna are something of an enigma. Over recent years, they have grown from a very niche act into an international name regularly selling out large venues with their interpretation of Norse folk (a label which does not really do their… Continue Reading →
Colds winds rage across seas. That’s what they tell us. The sea seems to be at the heart of this debut album from Brazilian progressive black metal band Thermohaline. Creaking timbers on the waves set the scene, but turn into… Continue Reading →
Two climates, one hot and one icy combine together to make hideous chasmic noise here. On the one hand we have main composer W.uR also in Ab Imo Pectore, Angrenost, Israthoum from Portugal who handles most of what we hear… Continue Reading →
Doom is perhaps one of the main genres that I should love but am very hit or miss with. I totally get it, especially the occult appeal, I love that. In fact, one of my favourite releases of the last… Continue Reading →
Despite having a previous EP and an album behind them, Mur have definitely ducked under my radar. This though was touted as a step forward in their sound and offering music ‘ahead of its time’. It also mentioned synthwave added… Continue Reading →
UK Melodic/Heavy/Power Metal band Primitai have been steadily developing their own particular identity for about 15 years now, but with 2018’s “The Calling” they made an extra leap forward, bringing a class, maturity and style that, although always evident on… Continue Reading →
Yet more fascination in Aokigahara the Japanese ‘Suicide Forest’ here and seriously it is becoming a bit of a cliché now. Perhaps Covid has left it as place where the dead can finally go to die in peace but before… Continue Reading →
We’re told to expect “8 tracks of primitive and soily sounds”, with the added threat that this will annihilate our nervous system. “Quiétude Hostile” is the Parisian blackened sludge band’s second album release. The apocalyptic nature of the dark heaviness… Continue Reading →
If for whatever bizarre reason you’ve read my inane ramblings over the last few years, you will know that Clouds Taste Satanic is a band I massively admire. Their instrumental doom music is of a scope that is positively cinematic,… Continue Reading →
Poughkeepsie, New York is the birthplace for the wonderfully named and furiously talented band Genghis Tron who have engineered the most peculiar and welcome return since Lazarus. ‘It’s Genghis Tron Jim, but not as you know it’. It would be… Continue Reading →