Matt Strangis is the artist behind Doubtsower and he introduced himself as a recent addition as bassist to Pantheist and is working on their new forthcoming album. He also pointed out that under the alias of Kyam he is known… Continue Reading →
Some twenty years into their existence French heavyweights Year of No Light are having a damn busy summer. A new album in the shape of Consolamentum and a career spanning box set of their previous 5 full-lengthers – quite an achievement after what… Continue Reading →
You can tell that I am becoming institutionalised within the blood-soaked ventricles of Ave Noctum’s cathedral of pain, when I start to lap myself with reviews of bands I have reviewed in the past. Not sure what to think of… Continue Reading →
Thankfully we are not going into this one completely blind. All paths lead to Reading resident Umair Chaudhry who has been musically involved in Xmas Lights, Abandon, Futureproof and Monday Morning Sun in the past. He set up Blindsight Records… Continue Reading →
For my own amusement, I like to play a guessing game. Can I tell the genre of an album, the sound of a band, especially one I’m not familiar with, just by looking at the album cover? More often than… Continue Reading →
I saw Dvne play live in 2018, and recall it being a very dark experience of thunderous heaviness and post metal doom. Reading about them travelling “an epic dark sci-fi universe with hints of psychedelia” sounds about right. I also… Continue Reading →
Well this is a pleasant surprise. An E.P. from a band I have never heard of that hits in all the right heavy places. Backbone from Warsaw have been on hiatus for a couple of years and are bouncing back with… Continue Reading →
You Can’t Go Back is the third full length from Toronto progressive post-everything metallers Sarin, taking them a step closer to achieving ‘beyond classification’ status. They have a sound which is difficult to define; containing elements of post-rock, post-metal, sludge,… Continue Reading →
There is, in the world of music, a few words that will strike fear into your heart, words such as ‘Machine Head’s new album’ or ‘Cannibal Corpse’s new concept jazz influenced latest EP’ and yes, I know I’m being a… Continue Reading →
From Potsdam, Germany, come five-piece Haven trying to breathe new life into a genre that’s closely connected to the final decade of the last century – alternative metal. How does that sound and how are they doing it? Let’s find… Continue Reading →
Sitting a few weeks ago in my attic, pontificating on getting some work done, I gazed out of the window, like some kind of latter day Quasimodo, when an electronic growl emanated from my computer, signalling a communique from the… Continue Reading →
If a picture paints a thousand words, then Scaphoid got off to a great start with the artwork on “Absent Passages”. I found myself mesmerised by the shadowy image of a crumbling city by a river. And with instrumental prog… Continue Reading →