Tag Post Rock
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 →
Do you remember when an album release was a big deal, an event, something to look forward to, something that would have you queueing outside your local record shop waiting for it to open? Perhaps I’m showing my age, but… Continue Reading →
This reviewing business is weird, I tell you. Every time I am about to press play on a new album, I feel a mixture of curiosity, excitement, reluctance and aversion. Every time, without fail. While the first two feelings are… Continue Reading →
Kris Clayton started writing new material for Camel of Doom, his avant-garde stoner project. On realising that things were getting even more leftfield he roped in his former Esoteric bandmate Greg Chandler. The pair drafted in Tom Vallely in to drum and he hopped on the… Continue Reading →