Comprising of past members of Moanaa (who we have featured here several times and apparently are on hold), Voidsmoker and Forge Of Clouds, this appears to be a new project for the Polish players to collaborate on. With a name… Continue Reading →
What kind of music is hiding beneath this cover? While I am a fan of photography, and while the picture is colourful and quite pleasing to look at, I have to say that the image of a metal carafe, filled… Continue Reading →
Two years ago, I reviewed Left Fallow the debut album of post metal band Ryr from Berlin, Germany. From my perspective, the perspective of having listened to a lot of post rock and post metal, it sounded generic, too much… Continue Reading →
It’s been a few weeks of relative calm and peace in my world, that has been, up until this point, a year of real ups and downs across the board. Reviewing for this esteemed website, Ave Noctum, has, at times,… Continue Reading →
“Can we overcome our nature and make higher minded choices to better humanity and our planet? Or are we lost in a never-ending cycle of shadow?” That is the question pondered by progressive metal outfit Dreadnought from Denver, Colorado, on… Continue Reading →
It’s somewhat of a visual/aural oxymoron having Sheffield based three-piece Gozer’s debut album creep its way into my mind this morning. Looking out onto the gently browning grass in my garden, as the sun beats a steady tattoo of vitamin… Continue Reading →
In this modern world of short attention spans where any Tom, Dick and Harry can sit in their bedrooms and spit out album after album, Kardashev have been quietly plodding away in Arizona USA for around a decade, their sole… Continue Reading →
As the band name and album title might suggest, here we’re heading into the realms of industrial, post-metal sludge and all that surrounds it. Although not a name previously known to me, Lament Cityscape have been around for a while,… Continue Reading →
Well this is Aesthetic Death so this EP is two tracks and around 25 minutes of music from this French progressive death/post metal band. Not a name I know but again, sometimes that’s good. Fresh ears. Track one, ‘Fanges’ is… Continue Reading →
GGGOLDDD’s frontwoman, Milena Eva, was raped when she was 19. There simply aren’t words to describe how horrific that is. Despite having lived through such an awful ordeal, Milena has never used GGGOLDDD as a medium to express her trauma… Continue Reading →
Comprised of Iggor Cavalera (ex-Cavalera Conspiracy, ex-Sepultura), Scott Kelly of Neurosis and Amenra’s Mathieu J. Vandekerckhove and Colin H. Van Eeckhout, Absent in Body is something of a post metal supergroup. Their debut album, Plague God, was recorded at Amenra… Continue Reading →
Written during a time when vocalist Johannes Perrson was exploring the remote areas of northern Sweden, the aptly named ‘The Long Road North’ serves to bridge the gap between 2019’s ‘A Dawn to Fear’ and last year’s EP ‘The Raging… Continue Reading →