Tag Post Metal
If you’re looking for “a cyber-saturated mix of guitar dirt and retro-futuristic atmosphere”, this is the place to come. The style is described as “post avant space metal. Agima Sun are from Poland but when you’re dealing with humanity as… Continue Reading →
This is the second album from Norwegian doomy atmospheric post metal / sludge band Dwaal. Known for their live performances, this album came out following Covid disruption, problems at the recording facilities, and various personal issues. But it’s out now,… Continue Reading →
I have to begin by saying this is not my usual cup of tea. Or maybe it is. I’m a more or less stereotypical raw black metal girlie, and this is very much not raw in the raw black metal… Continue Reading →
As I suspect is the case for most people, one of my favourite things about music – including the myriad types of metal – is its ability to pick you up and put you down in a very specific place… Continue Reading →
Research told me that this is the fourth album release by this Polish sludge post-metal band. Beyond this, I knew nothing about MuN when I started listening to “Nhemis”. I spent the first four minutes or so waiting for something… Continue Reading →
Rana make the sort of glorious racket that slaps you in the face with a velvet gloved hand then caresses you sensually after the blow has fallen. The band ran the gamut of many subgenres of extreme music and take the best… Continue Reading →
The first job was to re-acquaint myself with “Haar”, this band’s 2019 album which I liked very much. A year later “Woe Portrait” came out, which went down less well with my reviewing colleague. Such is the way of things…. Continue Reading →
On paper, Chicagoan avantgarde sludge/post metal quartet Yakuza, (who lest we forget are not some johnny come lately outfit having been around for several iterations of the noise scene they were at the fulcrum of creating way back in 1999)… Continue Reading →
Surfing the seas of time for almost two decades, The Ocean have arrived in the here and now. Holocene is the band’s newest long player released on their very own Pelagic Records and named after the current geological epoch, the… Continue Reading →
Whilst in the world of classical music, instrumental pieces are the norm, in the rock genre it can be a hard thing to pull off. There is a pretty much programmed expectation in the listener of ‘verse, chorus, verse’, as… Continue Reading →
Having been around since 2012, Parisian djent practitioners Stömb, seem to have flown under the radar in terms of the scant availability of anything really concrete about the band aside from a handful of reviews and an under-construction website that… Continue Reading →
Billed as post metal, this album promises a wider artistic edge with the addition of the jazz saxophone, violin and cello. The song titles alone suggest melancholy and intrigue … “Others are Gone. I Don’t Care”, “Feet in the Swamp…. Continue Reading →