Tag Conjurer
Rather than worry their band name sounds like some Ikea equivalent of a branded pack of dehydrated gravy granules, Sweden’s ORO, have pretensions above a particularly crude segue of an opening sentence attempting to breath life into a review of… Continue Reading →
A couple of years ago I reviewed a very decent album called “Entheogen” by an Australian progressive metal band called Mish. The leader of Mish went off and formed Hence Confetti, and this is their debut EP. The “emotional heavy… Continue Reading →
Something nasty is stirring in the West. Bristolians Moon Reaper have been mixing up the medicine to create a murky blend of dark sludge and progginess and the E.P. Descent is the fetid result. Dirty, heavy riffs from the get go, these 5 tracks are… Continue Reading →
I feel somewhat of a fraud starting to type these words out and I’ll explain why. As a self-confirmed fan of bands such as Jesu, Mogwai, Thursday, ISIS the band and all of the other bands that make up that… Continue Reading →
Curse These Metal Hands represents a first time collaboration between two trailblazers from the UK’s nascent doom scene; Manchester’s sometime three piece Pijn and Rugby’s Conjurer. This isn’t so much a typical split EP, instead taking members of both bands… Continue Reading →
Have you ever been hit by a gust of wind so strong that it took your breath away? Listening to Conjurer on full blast feels pretty much like that. You might like the music or not, but there is no… Continue Reading →
Today things get really busy. Within ten minutes of doors opening a band is on at the Boston Arms Music room, the second they finish another starts upstairs at The Dome. This is the case all day with 4 groups… Continue Reading →
It was beginning to look like Celeste were never going to play the capital; despite having visited pretty much every other major city, the French post-hardcore four-piece seemed to shy away from London. After playing Brighton’s ‘This is Your Last… Continue Reading →
Camden is amidst its normal stench exuding a particular shade of metal tonight. Vader and Hate are playing round the corner at the Underworld and the queue snakes down the road but furtive doom acolytes gather down the alley outside… Continue Reading →