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To the casual observer the Portuguese metal scene appears a tightknit network of intermingling, with musicians popping up in each other’s bands with startling regularity. A stalwart of the scene is drummer Pedro Mau; who has been an integral cog… Continue Reading →
Oh I have waited so long for this one! Glacier, from Portland, Oregon, dropped on of my favourite EP’s way back in 1985. There was a demo that appeared in 1988 but then nothing much. Three years ago, an incarnation… Continue Reading →
The second of my double gruesome German death metal albums that kicked off my November reviews is this excellent fourth album by New World Depression who have completely slipped by me in the last decade somehow I’m ashamed to say…. Continue Reading →
If a picture paints a thousand words, then Scaphoid got off to a great start with the artwork on “Absent Passages”. I found myself mesmerised by the shadowy image of a crumbling city by a river. And with instrumental prog… Continue Reading →
Four years after their independently released debut, UK based Metallers Synthetic return with the backing of Rock Of Angels Records and continue to expand the boundaries of their Metallic soundscape. Approaching Metal from a modern groove-laden standpoint, this Dark Heavy… Continue Reading →
As both a music fan and a reviewer there are few things quite as heart-warming as a band who went from leaving you cold to slightly perplexing you to that brilliant moment when your jaw drops and you suddenly realise… Continue Reading →
Fates Warning are undeniably one of the forefathers of Progressive Metal. A massively important part of the history of the genre, they pre-date the more widely known Dream Theater by at least 4 albums, and they forged the sound they… Continue Reading →
Kicking off my review account for November has been a double gruesome German death metal assault of the highest order that begins with Berlin act Dehuman Reign who I am already familiar with on their previous two releases. Their debut… Continue Reading →
Decadent Noir music is the description of this third album by Helfir- the brainchild of Luca Mazzotta. To summarise what this appears to mean on first listen is a gentle brooding mix of electronica and rock – imagine a less dancy VnV Nation jamming… Continue Reading →
I must admit to really enjoying this slow and doomy album by the Aphonic Threnody duo comprising of Riccardo Veronese on guitars and Juan Escobar C. on vocals, bass, guitar and keyboards, with Riccardo working out of the UK and… Continue Reading →
French band In Cauda Venenum recently released the enigmatically-titled album G.O.H.E., their second full release. It captured the interest of Ave Noctum’s writer Andrew Doherty who at the invitation of the band’s label Les Acteurs de l’Ombre asked band members… Continue Reading →
Two years ago a collaboration between Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou would have seemed unthinkable; the soft, ethereal darkness of Emma’s gentle chords and clean singing the polar opposite of Thou’s brash, sludge-tinged brutality. However, at Roadburn 2019 this exact… Continue Reading →