Tag Post Punk
Right in time for the approaching season of withering and decay comes Mond, the new album by French post punk/goth rock/cold wave band Soror Dolorosa (Engl.: sister pain), to provide you with just the right music for a twitchy dance… Continue Reading →
Forty-plus years in music can see entire genres and scenes be born, reach fruition, gain mainstream success and then retreat back into obscurity or, rarely, disappear entirely. It’s also a period of time in which you’d expect a legendary band… Continue Reading →
In 2020, I reviewed a split with three outstanding windswept and atmospheric pieces from Vuur & Zijde. Such, I guess, was the maturity of it that I had the mistaken idea that thought they’d released more than that. They hadn’t,… Continue Reading →
Long awaited by fans, the second full-length album of melancholic low-fi death rockers Rope Sect is finally here. Estrangement brings eight new songs of generous lengths, fitted into 43 minutes, and returns to the sound of the fan-favorite first album… Continue Reading →
Missiles from Malmö, Sweden, want to Weaponize Tomorrow, and rightly so, because without weapons Tomorrow might not survive. The future, if we are to have one, certainly needs help defending itself. However, there is one small problem. How can it… Continue Reading →
What do we have here? A place, dimly lit, with plastic flowers, vacant, spiritual pictures on its walls, odd-coloured carpets and even odder personnel. An old-fashioned American funeral parlour. How did we get here? Well, the intro of the album… Continue Reading →
Ignis Absconditus (Latin for “hidden fire”), as I have learned from the usual online sources, materialized out of sulphuric air in 2018 in Brescia in the north of Italy. The project was initiated by Noctuaria and Henry Der Wanderer, two… Continue Reading →
It might not be a simple few minutes’ walk down the road anymore but there’s nothing quite like going to a bricks and mortar record shop on release day to pick up a new album. That’s exactly what I did… Continue Reading →
An exciting debut record that appears to have come from nowhere. The last time I had something like this to review was Hulder’s debut and that ended up being my album of the year! Further in Evil could well end up hitting… Continue Reading →
It’s been a while since my part of the world saw any considerable amount of snow. About 10 years, I think. And if I remember correctly, it’s more than 20 years that my street was snowed in overnight and that… Continue Reading →
The Garage in London’s Highbury and Islington area is one of the most versatile venues I’ve known of in the decade plus I’ve been attending gigs. Having seen many bands of the metal variety, among the hosting of the earliest… Continue Reading →
Bringing the darkness from Germany, The Night Eternal deliver their second long player seeking a heavier, more sinister vibe. “Fatale” finds the band attempting to create their own unique sound combining solid melodies over classic era heavy metal inspired hooks…. Continue Reading →