Tag Opeth
Although I know the Manchester area, I don’t come from round there so I haven’t had the pleasure of encountering Acolyte. And listening to the dark and fiery “Alta”, their debut album, is a pleasure. The first thing to commend… Continue Reading →
I cannot wander far from the idea that this album sounds a lot like Opeth, especially “Blackwater Park” and “My Arms, Your Hearse”, so I’ll say that now. This six track, 69 minute, progressive death metal work is the Russian… Continue Reading →
If like me you have the habit of hanging around graveyards you will no doubt have encountered a Lychgate before and even walked under one. Simply put Lych is an old English word for corpse and gate… well duh. It… Continue Reading →
For those of a djenty disposition, here’s Benea Reach from Norway. This collection of ten wide-reaching and substantial chunks makes up their third album release. Let me say now that Benea Reach not a version of Uneven Structure or Vildjharta…. Continue Reading →
The debut album from Canadian progressive metallers Anciients is likely to draw many comparisons to the likes of Opeth and Mastodon and whilst the latter is quite apt, the only relation to Opeth that this band has is their love… Continue Reading →
I’ve heard enough of Persefone to know that they don’t operate in half measures. I go back with them to “Core” (2006), their second album which exuded heavily complex patterns, which are clearly their trademark. So it was too with… Continue Reading →
I like both progressive and post metal music, so as this, the fourth album from the US band Intronaut, is designated as “post-prog”, there was always going to be a good chance I’d like it. A bit of imagination helps… Continue Reading →
One of the most striking features of this, the third album from Norway’s In Vain, is the quality of production. As you would expect of a Progressive Metal album, there is completeness of sound which captures all the elements. The… Continue Reading →
As a quick glance at the band name and record label should tell you, this is gloomy doom-death from Eastern Europe, in this case the Czech Republic. ‘On the Shores of Oblivion’ is the band’s first full length, and it… Continue Reading →
The Fall Of Every Season comprises of a single person, Marius Strand who takes care of vocals, instruments and programming. ‘Amends’ is his second album and like with many one man bands there’s the possibility that this is either hit… Continue Reading →
This one man doom death project from Germany run by the creative but monstrously deformed brain of Pierre Laube is a slow terrifying assault on your senses that begins with “Downward” and some truly guttural vocals that fit the music… Continue Reading →
Having changed their name from the cumbersome ‘New Keepers’ to the far more palatable and memorable ‘New Keepers Of The Water Towers’ back in 2009, NKOTWT have been slowly but surely carving themselves a reputation in stoner/doom circles. The Swedes… Continue Reading →