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Fourteen years after their last full-length – and the only one I have any experience of – Sweden’s black/industrial pessimists Diabolicum return. That previous record ‘The Dark Blood Rising’ was from recollection (the CD resides across the open sea from… Continue Reading →
Even we, the chosen few, the metal fans of dark, extreme material, even we still sometimes stop and wonder what on earth that racket is coming from the stereo. If only for a few seconds, at least. And so ‘twas… Continue Reading →
This is the Swedish sludge duo’s sequel to “Two Titans” (2012). I’d not heard that album but I have heard complimentary comments about Galvano from other people who know about them. This album consists of four chunks, each lasting about… Continue Reading →
This was going to be a slow gig to start as most people are only really interested in the headliner and the supports are not exactly well known or a particular draw to the average Voivod thrasher. This meant that… Continue Reading →
My Sleeping Karma are a psychedelic groove band from Aschaffenburg, Germany who formed in 2006 out of the ashes of the stoner rock band The Great Escape. Playing a brand of instrumental music with minimal complexity and massive dynamics, the… Continue Reading →
Cult Of Endtime was formed from the ashes of death/thrash outfit Discard in 2010. With two demos behind them so far, the Finns have at last completed their debut album for Svart Records; an record which their label describes as… Continue Reading →
Having not long ago traversed the bulk of Italian act Tony Tears past works in the form of compendium box set ‘Music From The Astral Worlds’ when this brand new album arrived I was naturally keen to find out what… Continue Reading →
“Membrane make a living from working with noise”. And some noise it is. The French band’s fifth album is not the sort of ambient soundscape where figures emerge unexpectedly out of gloomy shadows, but a crashing world of reverberating sounds,… Continue Reading →
There was plenty of treasure in the works of Robert Louis Stevenson for budding filmmakers to unearth, none more so than in his Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde written in 1886. It’s an eldritch gas-lit, Victoriana horror… Continue Reading →
With Secrets Of The Sky’s sophomore effort they really have thrown caution to the wind, tweaking their delivery and content to fully realise an album with one continuous, free-flowing storyline. It picks up from the very point where their scintillating… Continue Reading →
I first became acquainted with Leprous’s quirky brand of prog metal in 2010 at ProgPower Europe. Everyone there was struck by the originality and freedom of their music. “The Congregation” is the Norwegian band’s fourth album. “The Congregation” is extraordinary…. Continue Reading →
Supuration’s last album ‘CU3E’ was a minor revelation for these ears; part Carcass, part Voivod circa ‘Nothingface’, it literally formed me a new earhole. Well perhaps that’s a slight exaggeration on my part but rarely have I been as taken… Continue Reading →