Tag Paradise Lost
Respecting those no-longer with us on their second album and follow up to ‘Where The Shadows Adorn’ it is off to eerie Indiana where the quintet Mother Of Graves Dwell. Melodic doom death is what we encounter with eight hymns… Continue Reading →
Look, there’s no getting round this, and let’s not beat around the bush – “Crown of Thorns” is pretty much a shoe-in for my album of the year. This has been a good year for releases, but really, nothing has… Continue Reading →
Make no mistake, Autumnal angst and anguish are definitely setting in. Looking at what is left on the review list in front of me, there is one constant and it sure ain’t happiness. So I first turn to Rome a… Continue Reading →
If any season is the right one for Doom/Death, it has to be autumn, doesn’t it? The sunlight is fading, the skies – to be frank – are right now full of rain clouds and the temperature has dropped. Leaves… Continue Reading →
US band The Flight Of Sleipnir are completely new to me and I was astonished to find that the band has already released seven albums prior to this latest endeavour. Originally a two piece consisting of founders David Csicsely and… Continue Reading →
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 →
If you have immersed yourself in the numerous genepools of metal genres over a long period of time, one thing that tends to enter the mind of an audiophile is sorting certain bands or genres into the right time of… Continue Reading →
‘Hollow’ (2020) was an impressive debut album for Israeli band Tomorrow’s Rain who had previously been around as Moonskin. Within the realms of atmospheric doom, they had strong song-craft but got quite a bit of attention due to a large… Continue Reading →
I was eagerly anticipating this concert, not only because it marked the 20th anniversary of “Icon,” but mostly because I would finally see Paradise Lost after years of listening to them. I’ve seen Nick Holmes before as the frontman of… Continue Reading →
It was back in 2020 that I reviewed a pair of great E.P.s from Cork, Ireland’s “The Grief”, at which point I gave them a collected 8.5 out of 10. Well, it’s three years later and the lads from the… Continue Reading →
With a band name and an album title such as the above this was never gonna be light and fluffy or fast and spiky. The fact that I have drank too much coffee this morning certainly puts me at odds with this dirty… Continue Reading →
If you read my review of the Dead And Dripping album recently then you’ve come to the right place for more gutturally effective death metal as this act also hails from the USA. As a three piece all the band… Continue Reading →