Soothsayer are a doom band from Ireland. This is their latest release.
Soothsayer play atmospheric doom/sludge that thrives on dense, dark emotion and otherworldly atmospheres.
This is slow-building music that wields atmosphere like a wrecking ball, crushing everything around it with the sheer weight of oppressive mood and feeling. Continue reading “Soothsayer – At This Great Depth (Review)”
This is the fourth album from German black metallers Ctulu.
I’m familiar with Ctulu from their second album Sarkomand, which was a savage album full of fast-paced blackened hatred.
Their latest release is similar in style, but more sophisticated and diverse in its scorn. This is still dark, aggressive music, of course, but there’s more nuance to the delivery in places alongside the more frenzied assaults. Continue reading “Ctulu – Ctulu (Review)”
Interview with Attan after their appearance at the UK’s Damnation Festival on 05/11/16
Get From Nothing here – https://shelsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/from-nothing
Wonderbox Metal review – http://wp.me/p3zRmN-3kA
Gridfailure is a one-man solo experimental project from the US. This is his latest EP.
Having been pleasingly surprised, impressed and enthralled with this year’s debut album from Gridfailure – Ensuring the Bloodline Ends Here – I was eagerly awaiting this release. With the exception of handful of releases, (Gensho being a notable one), I’m not hugely into this kind of thing normally, so to find an artist like this that I can really connect to is quite an unexpected treat. Continue reading “Gridfailure – Further Layers of Societal Collapse (Review)”
With elements of jazz, punk and indie alongside the parts that more recognisably owe a debt to metal, Dreamarcher’s self-titled debut album is a must-listen for anyone that likes their distorted music delivered with a distinctly non-standard approach.
Let’s dig a little deeper and find out a little more…
Dreamarcher is Ruben (vocals and bass), Kim (vocals and drums), Odd (vocals and guitar) and Viljar (guitar). Continue reading “Interview with Dreamarcher”
This is the twelfth edition of the UK’s Damnation Festival, and although it may be cold outside, inside there’s more than enough incendiary metal to heat things up. Hopefully the recent preview whetted your appetite, and now it’s time to see how the real thing turned out…
It’s with great excitement and expectation that I await Attan’s arrival. From Nothing is such a colossal opening statement for a band that I can’t wait to see how it translates into the live environment. Continue reading “Damnation Festival – Leeds University, 05/11/16 (Live Review)”
Wovenwar’s second album Honor Is Dead is a surprisingly catchy and memorable example of just how electrifying modern metal can be if it develops its own personality and niche. In a scene that’s usually bogged down in a severe lack of creativity, that’s an impressive result for Wovenwar.
The band’s guitarist Nick Hipa discusses Wovenwar and their latest creation… Continue reading “Interview with Wovernwar”
Lectern’s second album Precept of Delator is a very satisfying listen. Containing the kind of classic death metal that reaffirms why you love the genre, it’s 37 minutes of warm, fleshy death metal that hits the spot quite nicely.
Long-serving bassist/vocalist Fabio Bava and drummer Marco Valentine talk of things truly metal…
Fabio: This is a death metal band, out with Precept of Delator as our last record on the market, so far. You read of us here, as we are promoting this release of nine songs through some videoclips too, at its finest. We really believe in this new opus, take a listen on the web to understand who are we. Lectern is now a four piece again, with the joining of Gabriele Cruz on the other guitar, last August of this year. We, the Word of Satan! Join us into the abyss! Continue reading “Interview with Lectern”
An interview with Erlen Meyer before their recent appearance at the UK’s Damnation Festival on 05/11/16.
Check out their album here – https://shelsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/erlen-meyer
Wonderbox Metal review – http://wp.me/p3zRmN-1oM
Hellripper is a one-man black/speed metal band from the UK.
Complete and Total Fucking Mayhem is a compilation of all of the Hellripper work so far. This includes The Manifestation of Evil, a split with Batsheva, a three-way split with Acid Cross and Kreigg, and finally a split with Fetid Zombie called Prophecies of Ruin. All tracks have been remastered for this release. Continue reading “Hellripper – Complete and Total Fucking Mayhem (Review)”
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