Tag Post Metal
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 →
If you were wondering what the exact term is for the dread you’re experiencing, the dread of an uncertain future, the dread caused by being constantly reminded of sickness and death – Ba’al from Sheffield can help you with that…. Continue Reading →
Three years after being taken on the wonderful journey of Berdreyminn, Solstafir are back with their seventh full-length album. If you are anticipating a trip through the harsh weather and nature of Iceland though you are possibly going to find… Continue Reading →
If you’ve read any of my reviews you’ll be pretty accustomed to the fact that I’m not all that sold on instrumental music. However, this tends to mostly be interludes, intros and the like. In some weird paradox purely instrumental… Continue Reading →
Kevel may, or may not be, named after the large cleat fitted to a ship used for securing ropes. That may not be the most ‘metal’ of band names, or maybe it is, but nobody should question their ability to… Continue Reading →
Not sure if I have covered this before in my weekly scribblings that are under a thinly veiled attempt at an album review, very much an excuse to air some dirty laundry and try and be as clever as I… Continue Reading →