Tag Svart Records
What do you get if you cross psychedelic occult rock with macabre Finnish melancholy and surf guitars, add a touch of blues, then throw in more hooks than a cloakroom? If your first thought involves the words “an unholy mess”,… Continue Reading →
The word “Goth” conjures up certain images for the rock community. Mopey, white faced corner dwellers. Glow stick wielding tubular hair arm dancers or Hot Topic adorned emo kids. What happened to the tongue in cheek, chicken dancing, dusty dancefloor hoofers? We are still… Continue Reading →
Here Shaam Larein go round sticking knives into the world, which is how “Sticka en kniv i världen” translates. It’s a world of mystery, certainly stylistically as this “Goth-tinged doom rock band” promises nocturnal post-punk atmospheres and avant-garde metal. Spooky… Continue Reading →
The name Ragnar Zolberg rang a bell to me, Ragnar being one half of Isafjørd. I narrowed it down to ProgPower contacts, but also research revealed that Ragnar is the artist behind Sign. The other artist and composer is Aðalbjörn… Continue Reading →
This album from the Finnish quintet is described as “a biography of dream noir”. Morricone, haunted house thrillers, Lynchian twists and in one case a mellow Motown mood are quoted. This self-confessed dreamy thing could go either way for me,… Continue Reading →
The great Finnish doom band Spiritus Mortis has been in existence since 1987, and ever since that time have been plugging away producing quality classic slow metal. I last encountered the lads with their superb 2016 album, “The Year is… Continue Reading →
Anything involving Davide Tiso promises to be interesting, challenging and disturbing and this always looked to be the same. When we start talking about one minute bursts and three minute nightmares exploring “themes of mental illness, psychological deviance, rage, gloom… Continue Reading →
Before I commence with the review for the new work by Canterbury’s finest five piece, there are several questions I need to ask. Do you like Doom? Do you prefer to listen to whole albums rather than disposable single track… Continue Reading →
This album intrigued me on a number of levels. It’s epic black metal through “that dark forest of our minds”. Conceived during a blizzard in the band’s native Finland, the band’s line-up has links with Insomnium, Omnium Gatherum, Paradise Lost… Continue Reading →
As the sun streams through the all-be-it, very dirty glass doors, that act as my portal to the outside world, all seems well with the world, despite the presence of a global pandemic, a despotic lunatic launching a war on… Continue Reading →
8 years since their last album and 6 since ‘The Gothic Tapes’, this shall be their third album. It’s also a concept album with the subject matter being the 10-year winter that started in 535, including the bubonic plague that… Continue Reading →
In the northern hemisphere, autumn is the time of the year when nature is at its most colourful, its most friendly. It’s neither extremely hot nor extremely cold, and there are field crops and fruit aplenty. Earth looks like a… Continue Reading →