Tag Post Metal
Sinistro by name, sinistro by nature. “Semente” (Seed) is the Portuguese band’s third album, and it is as if an artist were painting black canvases. Leaden-heavy in a post metal way, disturbing yet with soft background patterns and a female… Continue Reading →
Ovtrenoir might be “post” metal but their debut release Eroded is as heavy as a constipated elephant turd wrapped in chainmail. I’ve never quite worked out what all this ‘post’ nonsense is about anyway and it always sounds a bit… Continue Reading →
Belgian four-piece Hemelbestormer are likely to make waves with their debut album ‘Aether’. They have already been snapped up by Debemur Morti, following a split release with Vanessa Van Basten and cassette of EP ‘Portals’. While bearing likenesses to both… Continue Reading →
Sometimes I come across a release which feels like any lingering positivity and joy for life has been sucked out. The increasingly abundant crop of post-rock, post black metal bands such as Harakiri For The Sky, Fall of Efrafa and… Continue Reading →
This album from Serbian band Consecration is the third of a trilogy. I only know this because I read it. Supposedly “Grob” (Grave) brings the end, peace and termination of a journey but my own impressions on listening to it… Continue Reading →
Blackened death with hints of post-metal, proto-punk, and occultism, London’s Shrines are nothing if not inventive. Their combination of emotion and rhythm paints a series of visceral sounds splattered with bright phrasing. Raw and uncompromising it reeks of their lust,… Continue Reading →
It’s been quite a while since I’ve seen an actual double album, but this hour and twenty-two minute double CD by French quintet Wheelfall came in a beautifully packaged digipak where the grey hues perfectly illustrate the sombre feeling contained… Continue Reading →
This album is “a lyrical concept called ‘Mörkrets Kärna’: an album-trilogy about falling down a pit of your darkest being, losing yourself completely and desperately trying to make sense of it”. Moloken come from the same place geographically, and in… Continue Reading →
Conditions are stormy in Belgium. This is where Drawn into Descent come from with their “rugged” black metal. “Elude” captures the scene. Patient, yet epic in its post metal ring, it has an air of Cult of Luna about it…. Continue Reading →
I found myself surrounded by a curious mix of Opeth and stretched out post metal presented in a metalcore coat. Such is the opening track “Faithfaker” of this unusual progressive metal album by Norwegian band Mantric. It was if the… Continue Reading →
Clanking post metal and echoing voices form part of a powerful production which characterises “Sol Devina”, the opening track of this album, and belies the fact that it is this German band’s debut album. Black psychedelic doom metal is what… Continue Reading →
Someone wiser than me once said “You can’t judge a book by its cover”. Ignoring such wise council, I find myself pre-judging the latest disc to land on my disc. Robert Høyem, who has also created art for bands like… Continue Reading →