Tag Type O Negative
Formed from a union of some of the best and brightest from the cold reaches of Scandinavia, Cemetery Skyline are a five piece melodic goth outfit who are the brainchild of guitarist Markus Vanhala (Omnium Gatherum, Insomnium). Rounded out with… Continue Reading →
Restless Spirit, the Long Island, NY trio find themselves delving into punchier territory on album number three, “Afterimage”. Tragedy and personal loss planted the seeds for Paul Aloisio’s vision for the LP. His own pain and experience has been laid… Continue Reading →
Canadian doom duo Tribunal hail from Vancouver and consist of the two talented multi-instrumentalists Soren Mourne and Etienne Flinn. Both Mourne and Flinn handle vocal duties, blending melancholic and haunting cleans with blackened rasps and deathly inspired screams whilst a… Continue Reading →
Not sure how I swiped some symphonic metal from under Mr Barker’s nose but I did. I was intrigued by these fifteen year plus Italian veterans because I genuinely hadn’t a clue about them but they started as a Death… Continue Reading →
The covers album…they’re strange things. For me they spark an interest, not just for the way a band covers a song but the actual song selection. Obvious classic tracks or a deeper cut? Stay true to the original or put… Continue Reading →
I am guessing that this lot are fairly well known back in Germany where they hail from, certainly compared to us in the UK. Seems to be a bit of a buzz about their return after they split up in… Continue Reading →
Hopefully Author & Punisher aren’t new to any of you reading this. On the off chance that someone has been drawn in by the vaguely superhero sounding moniker I will give a truncated bio. Tristan Shone a mechanical engineer from… Continue Reading →
“Crikey Ails! What we putting in the beer down the surf club. It’s all coming up post rock down under,” is exactly what Ray Meagher’s character Alf would have said if he was sent as many post rock albums by Birds Robe as I am. Well this time… Continue Reading →
“Music for night hours and sanguine addictions” I’ll be honest those words send shivers down my spine for all the wrong reasons. I spent some time amongst the Vampire fans of London in the 90’s in the middle of the… Continue Reading →
Talk about being doomsday prophets. APHND released last album ‘When The World Becomes Undone’ in 2019 and shortly after, that’s exactly what happened. If you thought they were not the happiest band in the world before this, it’s hardly the… Continue Reading →
While I may have come across their albums while browsing in record shops in the 90s, I can’t say Celestial Season grabbed my attention enough to have me give them a listen. But if ‘The Secret Teachings’ is anything to… Continue Reading →
This shall be the third release of Oceans Of Slumber I’m reviewing, and this self-titled album is definitely far more extreme, on both ends of the spectrum, to what they have released before. Opening track “The Soundtrack To My Last… Continue Reading →