Built-in Obsolescence are a progressive/post-metal band from Italy. This is their debut album.
Here we have 61 minutes of post-metal with progressive tendencies. Modelled on influences such as The Ocean, Cult of Luna, Isis, and a touch of Tool, Built-in Obsolescence mould elements of these to satisfy their own vision of what heavy music should sound like in 2018. Continue reading “Built-in Obsolescence – Instar (Review)”
Ails are a US black metal band and this is their debut album.
Featuring two members of the mighty Ludicra, Ails have produced 41 minutes of melodic depth and blackened substance. Continue reading “Ails – The Unraveling (Review)”
Arya are an Italian progressive/post-metal band and this is their third album.
I enjoyed last year’s Dreamwars. This was a curiously individual release, blending emotive modern progressive/alternative metal with a dreamy strain of post-metal. It’s an album that is striking upon first listen, but properly Continue reading “Arya – Endesires (Review)”
Distances are a post-metal/atmospheric sludge band from the US and this is their fourth album, (assuming you count 2016’s covers album Rip Offs).
Now here’s an interesting and involved release. I like something a bit different, and across the 65 minutes of material on this album Distance cover a lot of…ahem…distance.
Okay, I’ll get my coat…
Anyway…the Continue reading “Distances – Diableries (Review)”
This is the third album from US progressive death metallers Rivers of Nihil.
Already an impressive and accomplished technical/progressive death metal proposition prior to this album, Where Owls Know My Name sees the band developing their sound even more than previously. Continue reading “Rivers of Nihil – Where Owls Know My Name (Review)”
This is the second album from Belgian post-metallers Hemelbestormer.
Having enjoyed 2016’s Aether, listening to A Ring of Blue Light was a no-brainer really. On this second release Hemelbestormer’s atmospheric metal has not disappointed. Continue reading “Hemelbestormer – A Ring of Blue Light (Review)”
Novaria are an atmospheric metal band from the Netherlands and this is their debut EP.
This is an interesting and enjoyable mix of progressive, atmospheric, and post-metal. These are only starting points, however, as Novaria mix a lot of different things together on EP1. Continue reading “Novaria – EP1 (Review)”
Concealed Reality are a Belgian metalcore band and this is their latest EP.
I like a bit of modern heavy music when it’s suitably aggressive, but also when it has sufficient depth. Concealed Reality play metalcore influenced by the early 00s sound, only updated with a contemporary delivery and with some other musical enhancements. Continue reading “Concealed Reality – Synapses (Review)”
Blut Aus Nord are a black metal band, (among other things), from France. This is their twelfth album.
Blut Aus Nord are a well-known band with a well-known proclivity for experimentation and producing music that’s as unexpected/unpredictable as it is rich, dark, and textured. Continue reading “Blut Aus Nord – Deus Salutis Meæ (Review)”
Old Night are a Croatian atmospheric/progressive doom metal band and this is their debut album.
This is a very accomplished hour or so of doom metal, interleaved with elements of progressive rock, blues rock, and atmospheric metal. Continue reading “Old Night – Pale Cold Irrelevance (Review)”
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