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The Foreshadowing – New Wave Order (Lifeforce Records)

A dark, rain soaked landscape stretches forebodingly into the hazy distance. The grey clouds hang heavy over the mists of dank depression, a smog of broken dreams and lost hope. The perfect landscape for a soundtrack of melancholic Gothic Doom… Continue Reading →

Soror Dolorosa – Mond (Prophecy)

Right in time for the approaching season of withering and decay comes Mond, the new album by French post punk/goth rock/cold wave band Soror Dolorosa (Engl.: sister pain), to provide you with just the right music for a twitchy dance… Continue Reading →

Priest – Dark Pulse (Blue Nine)

I absolutely bloody loved Priest’s last album ,2022’s Body Machine. It’s mix of cheesy 80’s synthwave and gothic noir was right up my neon lit alley. It featured in my top ten of the year and fuelled many a late… Continue Reading →

Thief – Bleed, Memory (Prophecy)

This album explores memory for its theme. Dementia being a terrifying thief of personality and experience that is affecting more and more of our aging population in the West. It is somewhat ironic that I had forgotten, until I searched… Continue Reading →

Sang Froid – EP (Black Gods)

Nomen est omen with Sang Froid from Nantes. Making good use of the infectious winter of 2019, these cold-blooded Frenchmen, composed of two members of Regard les hommes tomber and one member of The Veil, have created a decidedly un-sanguine… Continue Reading →

Volturian – Red Dragon (Scarlet Records)

I have a hell of a lot of respect and admiration for guitarist and songwriter Frederico Mondelli. In only a few short years he has showcased immense musical expertise in all his varied Metal projects, and done this with immeasurable… Continue Reading →

The Birthday Massacre – Fascination (Metropolis)

It’s all been a bit confusing about birthdays of late and what you can and cannot do during them. We were told that parties were not allowed and then the person who said this allegedly had one themselves, although it… Continue Reading →

Perturbator – Lustful Sacraments (Blood Music)

Synthwave a genre built on cliches and nostalgia wearing its Hawaiian shirt and raybans with pride as it shifts the gear down in a Testarossa Spider and heads for the sunset. By this stage much of the music loving world have decided whether it is… Continue Reading →

Crown – The End Of All Things (Pelagic Records)

Since this is my first encounter with the French band Crown, I checked the Encyclopaedia Metallum for a bit of background data. Usually, the metal archives are a good, reliable and updated source of information. This time, however, the genre… Continue Reading →

Ulver – Flowers Are Evil (House Of Mythology)

“We are wolves,” state Ulver and let’s go with that for now and contemplate their position in the grand scheme of things along with the music on this their 16th studio album and new book “Wolves Evolve The Story of… Continue Reading →

A Life Divided – Echoes (AFM)

OK peeps if you like 80’s movies, Stranger Things, keytars, wind machines, Giorgio Moroder and neon then stick around. If things have to be straight up metal with devils and doom all the time you may want to keep on… Continue Reading →

GosT – Valediction (Century Media)

Valediction opens with an absolute blast of keyboard driven black metal in ‘Relentless Passing’, a total howl which then drops into some gentler darkwave and out again into the harsh industrial landscape. Yes I’m back with GosT again where genre… Continue Reading →

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