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Sometimes it’s really nice to hear an artist you admire doing something completely different, but still managing to sound familiar enough to actually make you want to listen earnestly. If you’ve read any of my previous reviews, you’ll know I’m… Continue Reading →
It’s “all wrong” or “all evil” as far as TodoMal, a duo from Castilla-La Mancha in Spain are concerned. Living in a region famed for Don Quixote “a placid and depressing desolate wasteland” and one described as being in ‘uninhabited… Continue Reading →
What to do when the ropes of the night keep you firmly chained to the darkness, hindering your every movement, making it impossible to break free? There is only one option. You have to generate your own light. This, in… Continue Reading →
Death Rock – does that name wind you up as it does me? I am just too long in the tooth and too scarred by crimpers to dig that kind of jive talking. However, our colonial friends over the Atlantic… Continue Reading →
Now I am a big fan of Crocodilians and also of wine. Quids in! Or so I thought…. Alligator Wine are a duo from the Black Forest with not a stringed instrument between them. Drums, synths, organs, percussion. No guitar… Continue Reading →
It’s true that there is not a huge amount to look forward to at the moment and we have to take the pleasures where we can. Thank goodness for music and this is something that I and no doubt anyone… Continue Reading →
“I love neofolk and I love black metal, but I absolutely despise how both have become breeding grounds for hateful ideologies.” Thus spake Richard Weeks of Gaylord and the brilliantly monikered Olivia Neutered John. If you are aware of this… Continue Reading →
USBM from Rhode Island – Cemetery Lights have a penchant for the classics. I am not talking Mayhem and Darkthrone I mean ancient civilisations. They released a debut cassette Lamuralia last year which focussed on Rome, this was followed by the… Continue Reading →
Well here’s a big slice of frantic metal joy! Devil Master are a quartet hailing from Philadelphia that play an unholy mash up of blackened death metal and punk with a liberal dollop of goth rock – think Nunslaughter playing… Continue Reading →
Normally you would associate anything musical hailing from Brooklyn to be of the hardcore variety, but there is a darker, heavier and suffocating presence which lurks in the depths of it. Originally, this beast was Type O Negative, but since… Continue Reading →
This E.P from Stockholm’s The Vice is 4 tracks of Nightbreed style Goth rock with hints of metal. This trio layer on the atmosphere like the beer and sweat on the steps in the Slimelight (treacherous masonry that it is) …. Continue Reading →
We are used to reviewing the good, the bad and the downright ugly around these parts but sometimes it’s nice to get something that is simply drop dead gorgeous and beautiful and that is exactly where The Eden House fit… Continue Reading →