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More often than not when a band cites influences like Paradise Lost and Tiamat these days it means you are in for a reasonably predictable take on the gothic doom genre with the influences coming from the bands most popular… Continue Reading →
I do like a lot of the female fronted metal, from Trail Of Tears or Tristania to Kingfisher Sky or Within Temptation and plenty in between, but I don’t actually own any albums by Edenbridge. I’ve heard just about every… Continue Reading →
Some bands run out of creative steam after a period of time. This isn’t the case with Kirlian Camera who have been developing their ideas over 33 years and through umpteen albums. I often receive albums which are described as… Continue Reading →
The progressively-orientated Kscope label has an impressive roster of bands, including Anathema, Porcupine Tree and The Pineapple Thief. The latter’s main man Bruce Soord has now entered into collaboration with Katatonia’s Jonas Renske for “Wisdom of Crowds”. When I heard… Continue Reading →
Eric E returns with his neo/dark folk project Weh, but this time the world it deals with is perhaps not so perpetually dark. En Natt Kom Doed from last year was steeped in the facets of death, but this one… Continue Reading →
I knew it would not be long before my favourite musical chameleon from Russia Vaarwel was going to be back with some new music but this time he has brought another artist along for the ride. If you are confronted… Continue Reading →
Venomenon last crossed our paths on the rather excellent Nàttsòl ‘Stemning’ album in 2010. When I say crossed our path I really mean that as doing some research I realised we had actually interviewed him and Nattsjel of the band… Continue Reading →
Weather predictions for the second day spoke of rain, and indeed where I live there certainly had been some, along with an all out storm. Travelling the thirty or so kilometres to the venue, it came as somewhat of a… Continue Reading →
An altered state of consciousness, is any condition which is significantly different from a normal waking beta wave state. There’s plenty of ways to achieve this, through sensory deprivation, psychotropic drugs or yoga, even by hiring the services of a… Continue Reading →
I will hold my hands up and state that I’ve never really been a fan of one person black metal bands or any metal band for that matter. I’ve always felt that the artists were spreading themselves too thinly when… Continue Reading →
Fucking hell, this Belgian lot can’t half make a racket! I found myself being sandblasted with discordance from the very instant I pressed play on this, the bands third full length album. To be fair, the impact hit home much… Continue Reading →
The population of Scandinavia is not huge, with about 20 million folks spread between Sweden, Norway and Denmark, and yet as well as a high degree of self-sufficiency in terms of heavy industry, electronics, and the like, the region seems… Continue Reading →