Tag Gothic Metal
I often wonder about how bands that don’t live in the same locality manage to organise themselves sufficiently to be able to go about their creative endeavours. Marvelous indeed then that The Eternal manage to produce music given that their… Continue Reading →
Italian Symphonic/Gothic Metal band Rossometile may be an unfamiliar name to many (I know it was to me), but “Gehenna” is actually their seventh album in twenty years, the majority of which have been self-released. This album is the third… Continue Reading →
“Ladies and Gentlemen, The portals of darkness are open, and the Dead haunt over the Earth. Here comes The Vision Bleak”. This year marks an almost unfathomable 20 years since those words were part of an intro that launched “The… Continue Reading →
On This Earth is the rather short but appealing and concise debut album of Inver, a goth metal/rock three piece from Cheltenham. The band members come from diverse musical backgrounds – extreme metal, alternative acoustic, and traditional folk –, but… Continue Reading →
One quick search for Blackbriar on youtube and a swathe of videos, clips and posts might make you think that this can’t possibly be only their second album. But a prodigious social media presence does not mean a wealth of… Continue Reading →
UK band Edenfall have actually been around for a while and this is their third full length but were pretty much inactive since their second album in 2014 and managing to regroup in and record in 2022. But just so’s… Continue Reading →
Like all metal genres, black metal has its share of sub-genres born from bands combining elements of other genres into their audible output. Ask anyone who listens to black metal what its most renowned sub-genres are and you will most… Continue Reading →
Third EP (plus one full length) from this Nottingham via South Africa band who, after one listen of this I can genuinely say are a different prospect. Very. Five tracks including three covers (more of which later), twenty five minutes… Continue Reading →
Returning to the metal stage from their lonesome and windswept homeland of Varmland, Sweden, Tribulation are back with another piece of gothic metal that is vampiric in nature and has wholly abandoned all the death and blackened metal elements of… Continue Reading →
Twenty or so years ago, if you had a female singer and distorted guitars you were instantly just labelled Gothic Metal. Just as it seems to have been the trend over the last ten years or so to dub any… Continue Reading →
Manntra are a Croatian band who blend Industrial Rock/Metal with elements of Gothic Rock/Metal and hints of Neo/Traditional Folk, then deliver it with their own catchy Euro-Metal style. Unsurprising I suppose given that Manntra were formed just over 10 years… Continue Reading →
It’s always a pleasure to hear when a band switches a couple of members, finds their own sound and throws an album out there with renewed intent and focus. It would be a real shame right now if I said… Continue Reading →