Tag Post Rock
Expansive. Immersive and indeed panoramic. If we are doing nutshell descriptions then that would be it. Dumbsaint are an instrumental four piece from Sydney who create big, big soundscapes of what is known as post rock. Now “Panoram….” is not a new release. It was written… Continue Reading →
Ison is an ambient post-rock project put together by Daniel Änghede (previously of Crippled Black Phoenix) and Light Field Reverie vocalist Heike Langhans. Having crafted two EPs in 2015 and 2018, the duos debut LP was released in 2019 to… Continue Reading →
Dumbsaint is a band whose music is accompanied by film. Having just this album to listen to I didn’t get the benefit of that. But you can get five videos as a download with this hour-long instrumental post rock work…. Continue Reading →
You know when a band that isn’t Metal gets on a Metal label? Well that really tends to grind my gears. It makes that band into an ‘acceptable’ outlet for the Metal community, why? Can’t you just go on Bandcamp… Continue Reading →
The Harvest Moon is one of those single person black metal projects, where the subject is the anxiety of living in a complex civilisation. The individual behind this EP upped sticks in 2018 to experience off grid living in Western… Continue Reading →
You may know Vladimir Pavelka as Cult of Fire’s Infernal Vlad. This album however is different. “Spomienky”, which means Memories, is a long standing atmospheric instrumental work in which Vladimir evokes eight memories of his rural childhood in Slovakia –… 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 →
As the UK staggers blindly away from Europe I find myself in a new relationship with Belgium. The stereotypical fare of Tintin, great beer and waffles is not the only thing drawing me towards this lowland nation. Consouling Sounds continue… Continue Reading →
I was interested to read that the debut album by Tasmanian band Sens Dep, being the abbreviation of Sensory Deprivation, was recorded over four years in a tin shed, an alpine hunter’s hut, concrete inter-zones, and the Tasmanian wilderness. The… Continue Reading →
This is the world of dark soundcapes, apocalyptic guitars and epic synth sounds, they tell us. It all points to collapse on this, the band’s 8th album release. “Ark of Horizon” is post rock with electronica. The album as a… Continue Reading →
There’s something about three-piece bands, whether it’s Venom, Jawbreaker, Sumac or Prong, there is something that resonates around the purity and sparseness of bands comprising just three people, that purveys a cleanliness of mission and sound that is hard to… Continue Reading →
Ok this is a difficult one. I don’t believe I recall coming across Ataraxia before, despite an apparent thirty years of activity and twenty five releases of one kind or another, but apart from Cold Meat Industries their labels have… Continue Reading →