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Hopefully Author & Punisher aren’t new to any of you reading this. On the off chance that someone has been drawn in by the vaguely superhero sounding moniker I will give a truncated bio. Tristan Shone a mechanical engineer from… Continue Reading →
Having previously plucked bass for French sludge outfit Overmars throughout the noughties, Marion Leclercq brings us the sophomore full-length from her solo project, a full five years after the well-received debut. Opener “The Descent” is driven mostly by oppressive doomy… Continue Reading →
I confess that that I didn’t know the band Norse before this release in spite of “Ascetic” being their fourth album. The idea that they play dissonant black metal did appeal to me. So off we go with the title… Continue Reading →
Warning, rant coming! I don’t know about you but one thing that has been really galling over the last couple of pandemic clad years is the constant bilious propaganda being bombarded out by those in a privileged position, musicians in… Continue Reading →
OK so as I write this I have succumbed to the plague. Covid has caught me in its putrefying clutches and I am quarantined and feeling like poop in a scoop. What is needed? Well, the rulebooks say plenty of fluids, rest and vitamin… Continue Reading →
Hearing Fotocrime’s third full-length Heart Of Crime and having no background information on the project’s origin, you would never guess that Ryan Patterson, the singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer behind the project, is from Louisville, Kentucky. On first listen, the… Continue Reading →
Modern Rites are an international band as is increasingly the way these days, comprising Berg from Swiss atmospheric black metal band Aara and Jonny of US experimental metal band Kuyashii. Dark and desolate landscapes are offered and delivered. “Vigilance Eternal”… Continue Reading →
Parrilla, hailing from the Southend on the Sea, UK, have been described as a rising force in the UK underground. Having cut their teeth round Essex, sharing the stage with the likes of Goat Monsoon and participating in Bloodstock’s Metal… Continue Reading →
Been expectantly awaiting this, finally after three highly rated EP’s The Joy Thieves get round to their debut album. Since forming or should that be spawning into the multi-limbed industro-wrecking machine they are, this lot have certainly kept us on… Continue Reading →
The Monolith Deathcult’s formula is one that would miserably fail in the wrong hands. A sonic carpet bomb of death metal with cinematic samples, waves of electronic pulses, orchestral sweeps and industrial structures… and even a sense of humour. On… Continue Reading →
There is no such thing as “dead time” for Bornyhake and Borgne and if you are thinking this came quickly, it did indeed. Only just over a year since last album Y was released here is another sprawling and labyrinthine… Continue Reading →
It’s remarkable when you think of it but once you get to a certain age, let’s say 50 for the sake of convenience, there are not many musical artists who have been with you the whole crooked pathway through life,… Continue Reading →