This is the debut album from Tayne, an industrial rock band from the UK.
Love contains 31 minutes of industrial rock/metal, taking a variety of influences and using them to create something quite charismatic. Tayne’s music is easy to enjoy if you like your tunes to consist of multiple component parts, all joined together with skilled vision. Continue reading “Tayne – Love (Review)”
This is the debut album from post-rock band You, Infinite.
Brought to us by founding members of This Will Destroy You, You, Infinite contains 65 minutes of instrumental post-rock. I find this sort of style quite easy to become bored by, but not when it’s in as capable hands as these ones. You, Infinite have plenty of experience in this area, and have produced a record that does not disappoint. Continue reading “You, Infinite – You, Infinite (Review)”
This is the fourth album from Scottish rock band Vukovi.
My God Has Got a Gun operates in a less-defined place where rock and pop collide. Throw in some nu-metal influences too, and you’ll have a good idea of where Vukovi are coming from. Continue reading “Vukovi – My God Has Got a Gun (Review)”
Avatarium are a doom rock band from Sweden and this is their sixth album.
From 2017’s Hurricanes and Halos, to 2019’s The Fire I Long For, to 2022’s Death, Where Is Your Sting, I have thoroughly enjoyed witnessing Avatarium get better and better at their chosen craft. Now we have a new opus – Between You, God, the Devil and the Dead – which gives us a 43-minute opportunity to once again explore Avatarium’s absorbing and entertaining worldbuilding. Continue reading “Avatarium – Between You, God, the Devil and the Dead (Review)”
Sergeant Thunderhoof are a stoner rock band from the UK and this is their fifth album.
2022’s This Sceptred Isle made a big impression on me, even breaching my end of year list, so The Ghost of Badon Hill is one I’ve been looking forward to. With much expectation riding on it, I’m immensely pleased to report that it has not disappointed at all. Continue reading “Sergeant Thunderhoof – The Ghost of Badon Hill (Review)”
Devin Townsend is a prolific Canadian artist who has a vast and intimidating discography. Whatever he touches though is always individual and interesting, and frequently brilliant.
PowerNerd is a 44-minute progressive rock album that has apparently been born out of a desire by the artist to simplify his approach to songwriting. Continue reading “Devin Townsend – PowerNerd (Review)”
This is the sixth album from UK progressive rock band Dawnwalker.
2022’s House of Sand was such a good record. Two years later, we have The Knowing, which delivers 38 minutes of new material. On this new record the mastermind behind the band has been joined by a new collective of musicians, and a fresh sound. Continue reading “Dawnwalker – The Unknowing (Review)”
This is the debut album from dark rock band Cemetery Skyline.
Boasting current/ex-members of bands such as Amorphis, Grand Cadaver, Dark Tranquillity, Entombed A.D., The Halo Effect, Insomnium, Malpractice, Sentenced, and Witchery, a lot of experience and skill has gone into the making of Nordic Gothic. Cemetery Skyline use their experience well, forging a 49-minute album the combines dark and melodic rock with Gothic flair. Continue reading “Cemetery Skyline – Nordic Gothic (Review)”
Blue Heron are a heavy rock band from the US and this is their second album.
Ever since first encountering Blue Heron in 2021 on their debut release Black Blood of the Earth/A Sunken Place I’ve been partial to the band’s earthy brand of stoner rock. They capitalised on this early success in 2022 with their first album Ephemeral, and then the following year released a split with High Desert Queen which I particularly liked. All of which brings us to Everything Fades, and its 39 minutes of new material. Continue reading “Blue Heron – Everything Fades (Review)”
Kingcrow are an Italian progressive rock band and this is their eighth album.
I really liked 2015’s Eidos, (and somehow missed its 2018 follow up), so wanted to make sure I caught up with the band for the 53-minute, (with bonus track), Hopium. I was not disappointed. Continue reading “Kingcrow – Hopium (Review)”
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