Tag Isis
Long gone are the dark and brooding days of one of post metal’s most evil sounding albums – the masterpiece that was ‘Eternal Kingdom’ is long dead and the band once branded as ‘NeurIsis’ have taken a complete U-turn with… Continue Reading →
Station Dysthymia are a funeral doom band from Siberia, and ‘Overhead, Without Any Fuss, The Stars Were Going Out’ is their second full-length. I thought at first in my literary ignorance that the album title was the product of some… Continue Reading →
Little of it seems to reach our Western senses, but there really is a veritable hotbed of doom and drone down in the remote and impossibly vast country of Russia. Maybe it’s the humidity of the cities or the often… Continue Reading →
The cover image is of a wet city night. The scene of isolation could be the one we hear in this sextet of post rock pieces from this Finnish band. Actually, I didn’t think that “Prologue” was as gloomy as… Continue Reading →
This is a re-mastered version of the original album which was released in 2000. From a personal point of view, “Celestial” is the least played of the three Isis albums that I have in my collection. So the first job… Continue Reading →
Majalis is a project of both Tobias Netzell and Björn Pettersson of Swedish melodic/prog death metal band In Mourning. Apparently it was shelved for several years due to excessive commitments in their main day job, but I’m glad they’ve finally… Continue Reading →
Rip out the gnarled beasties that lurked within ISIS, the howling, human cyclone that was Aaron Turner and the sudden, throaty wall-of-sound guitar that Michael Gallagher was capable of, and you’re left with a bit of a soft touch. However,… Continue Reading →
In 2007, when they had an average age of 15, Steak Number Eight were already winning band competitions. Four years later, still mostly teenagers, they released their first debut album, All Is Chaos, and watched the plaudits rain down upon… Continue Reading →
I’ve grown to hate the term ‘industrial’. Being able to remember the heyday of real industrial when Throbbing Gristle, Chrome and (early) Cabaret Voltaire were the avante-garde, then the dirty mutant metal infected siblings of Ministry, Godflesh or Front Line… Continue Reading →
A totally new name to me, this French hybrid crew (I think it translates roughly as See How They Fall) introduce themselves with a brooding but unspectacular four minute Prelude before they kick off properly with Wanderer Of Eternity. It’s… Continue Reading →
It’s rare to find a truly immersive experience in music that strikes a balance between credible musical longevity and pure entertainment. Too proggy and I struggle to make it though the indulgent twiddly bits without my hand straying towards the… Continue Reading →
Now this is a South American curiosity to be sure. Abske Fides are Brazilian and what they play kinds of depends on which bits you pick up on. We have post hardcore, funeral doom and doom/death in the ebb and… Continue Reading →