Tag Industrial
Thankfully we are not going into this one completely blind. All paths lead to Reading resident Umair Chaudhry who has been musically involved in Xmas Lights, Abandon, Futureproof and Monday Morning Sun in the past. He set up Blindsight Records… Continue Reading →
I do it to myself. I only have myself to blame. I read a short excerpt from a PR or label and something pricks at my core. I thrust my hand up like a needy toddler and before I know it, I… Continue Reading →
Another artist on the Aesthetic Death roster who are new to me. Well, that’s kind of how it goes for this idiosyncratic label, and all power to them as they release some real head-scratching, soul punching, brain tingling albums. And… Continue Reading →
A brief bit of online research on Northmaan finds that this one-man project is from “the most Northernmost part of the UK”. A further bit of intrepid Googling point to this being possibly Skaw on the Shetlands. Now, anyone expecting Northmaan’s debut to be filled with Gaelic rhythms… Continue Reading →
Eight years is a long time to wait between albums, the seismic shift in extreme metal can be huge as these Australian industrial death metallers return from their hiatus with a fourth full length. Brandishing an apocalyptic, cataclysmic approach the… Continue Reading →
The message is clear “not for black metal warriors.” Aborym left that building quite some time ago and the likes of ‘Kali Yuga Bizarre’ and the black industrial phase of the Italian band are fleeting memories, albeit very good ones…. Continue Reading →
I still occasionally listen to Rome’s last album, The Lone Furrow, released in August 2020, and here we are already being presented with a new one. A bit too fast? Maybe. However, when you take a look at the band’s… Continue Reading →
A reading of Douglas Dunn’s ‘The Kaleidoscope’ opens ‘I’ve Seen All I Need to See’ and immediately sets the tone. A poem that explores the themes behind adjusting to loss and the process of grief could not be more apt… Continue Reading →
Forged in Manchester from the remnants of NekroDrako and now combined with key elements of Reign Of Erebus The Machinist may be new but have plenty of pedigree within their ranks. Considering it took Reign Of Erebus 14 years between… Continue Reading →
Boasting former members of Nordjevel, Alsvartr and Dødheimsgard, I presumed that Varde was going to be a brutal barrage of barbaric black metal. I was wrong. This is a far more measured, almost cerebral, approach to the genre. This is… Continue Reading →
‘Apocrypha’ opens with a smack to the face and a stripped back single key keyboard riff and then the band launches into the parade. This may not be Fear Factory, but it is loaded with similarities to Burton C Bells… Continue Reading →
Things don’t get much bleaker than industrial black metal. So, if you’re looking for something uplifting, you might want to pass on this one. I don’t know whether this really is, as the blurb claims, “the most extreme (…) record… Continue Reading →