Tag Death Rock
What do we have here? A death rock trio, named New Skeletal Faces, that sprung form fertile Californian soil, and that is being released on Peaceville Records, promising to fuse “the seductive and spellbinding gothic prowess of bands such as… Continue Reading →
Calgary Alberta. The home of the famous (infamous) Stampede and land of cowboys north of the border. It is also the home of Poltergeist – self proclaimed Death rockers extraordinaire. Frontman Kalen Baker was in trad metal band Whyte Diamond… Continue Reading →
Long awaited by fans, the second full-length album of melancholic low-fi death rockers Rope Sect is finally here. Estrangement brings eight new songs of generous lengths, fitted into 43 minutes, and returns to the sound of the fan-favorite first album… Continue Reading →
‘Enkoimesion’, a lilting intro and then like drapes being pulled back ‘Black Blacker Than Black’ swaggers in. There those rich crooning tones of Ike Vil sweep in with the hook riddle deathrock riff and gorgeous backing vocals. A sardonic wit… Continue Reading →
A mix of all ages queue outside the Underworld and there has been plenty of effort made with face paint and make-up looking very colourful this evening. It was difficult to gauge who exactly everyone was here for, Valor and… Continue Reading →
I have had the pleasure of listening to this album a lot over the last week due to reviewing in much shorter form for another publication. One thing I noticed on doing so is that it marks 40 years since… Continue Reading →
I’m going to stick my neck out here and say that at the moment there is no band that would produce a better or more appealing and engaging melange of melancholia and darkness than Germans Rope Sect. Their outstanding debut… Continue Reading →
Death Rock – does that name wind you up as it does me? I am just too long in the tooth and too scarred by crimpers to dig that kind of jive talking. However, our colonial friends over the Atlantic… Continue Reading →
Do you like Glenn Danzig? I don’t mean “Do you own a Misfits boxset, Samhain albums and a couple of solo albums and like to croon along with Motherrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr”. I mean do you really like the Evil Elvis. Like do you shout and… Continue Reading →
Hear ye, hear ye! Rope Sect are about to unleash The Great Flood upon the Earth! Mark your calendars, lovers of all things musically dark and underground, because the twelfth of August will prove to be one of the more… Continue Reading →
Having dealt with the topic of love and all its casualties on 2016’s ‘Sex’, TJ Cowgill tackles the polar opposite on latest album ‘Music to Make War To’. Over the course of seven records King Dude’s sound has shifted and… Continue Reading →
Atlanta Georgia is not the first place one would think of when Blackened Death Rock is what is on the cards. However, Cloak hail form the Southern States and ply their trade in the same market as Watain and Tribulation…. Continue Reading →