Tag Season Of Mist
When I was younger, I would obsessively follow the projects of artists I enjoyed, as I figured that liking something they were doing in one band meant I’d enjoy the output of another band in which they were involved. For… Continue Reading →
The Gaerea debut album back in 2018 feels like a lifetime ago now, with the world having seemingly stopping for a couple of years due to the pandemic. Nonetheless, during that time Portugal’s Gaerea have dragged themselves from the dark… Continue Reading →
This long-standing act now releases its twelfth album, along with other releases the theme is the human condition and the mistreatment of humans and animals alike. Musically I expected something unusual and experimental. The narrative “Incantation For The Different” rails… Continue Reading →
This is the Italian band with this moniker as I know there are a few others knocking about as the four-piece unleash their fifth and utterly barbaric new album. The intense opening intro ‘Mortem Aeternam’ sets the scene superbly, building… Continue Reading →
The key to understanding Heilung and their music is the tag the band have assigned to themselves – amplified history. Since their beginnings in 2015, the ritual collective, the latter being another self-coined label, have been aiming at bringing the… Continue Reading →
I do like an E.P. Which is pretty lucky as there seems to be loads of them flying about at the moment – hey Ed you need to start letting us put them in our fave lists of the year [err nope Ed]. What used to… Continue Reading →
Saor is a Gaelic word meaning free or unconstrained. Saor is also a one man band flying the flag for Scottish inspired blackened folk metal. The concept for heritage and folk influenced heavy music has been quite noticeable among Nordic… Continue Reading →
Melodic doom/death from Pittsburgh. This is apparently their tenth year together, although they aren’t a band which until up until this point I had heard of. The accompanying blurb mentioned a few bands that would suggest that they would be… Continue Reading →
Quite a few years back I never really registered Grind, or at least subgenres of Grind like Porno, Gore and Noise as music I would enjoy. I don’t really know why, I mean I loved the comedy element of Slam,… Continue Reading →
I have had the pleasure of listening to this album a lot over the last week due to reviewing in much shorter form for another publication. One thing I noticed on doing so is that it marks 40 years since… Continue Reading →
As I listen to The Space, I chastise myself for a streak of ridiculous disappointment. I am heading off to Desertfest this week to redeem a ticket I bought in 2020. One of the bands I was looking forward to… Continue Reading →
It’s a true statement that the San Francisco Bay Area is a base for strong, technical metal bands and here’s another in Nite. This is the band’s second album release. Blackened metal is how it’s described but the first thing… Continue Reading →