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Longhouse – II: Vanishing (Review)

This is the second album from this Canadian doom/sludge metal band.

Well, this is very good. Let’s make that clear from the start.

Providing a Continue reading “Longhouse – II: Vanishing (Review)”

Viscera/// – 3: Release Yourself Through Desperate Rituals (Review)

Viscera/// are an Italian experimental post-metal band and this is their third album.

The tag post-metal can mean almost anything at this stage in the game, and on 3: Release Yourself Through Desperate Rituals, Viscera/// show that they can pull off almost any style you want to name under its protective aegis.

In simple terms, I Continue reading “Viscera/// – 3: Release Yourself Through Desperate Rituals (Review)”

Buioingola – Il Nuovo Mare (Review)

Buioingola are an atmospheric doom band from Italy and this is their second album.

Il Nuovo Mare is the follow up to the band’s 2013 debut Dopo l’Apnea. This was a release that established Buioingola as a band that were travelling their own way, and a release that firmly stuck in my mind as one of the more memorable ones of that year. Continue reading “Buioingola – Il Nuovo Mare (Review)”

Dead Register – Fiber (Review)

This is the debut album from Dead Register, a post-metal band from the US.

This is a slightly different take on what most post-metal bands are doing, and Dead Register have managed to pull off an unusual feat – Fiber is not an album that readily sounds like many others out there. Continue reading “Dead Register – Fiber (Review)”

In the Company of Serpents – Ain-Soph Aur (Review)

In the Company of Serpents are a doom/sludge band from the US and this is their third album.

We’re familiar with the work of In the Company of Serpents from their 2014 EP Merging in Light. This was a delightfully heavy and fuzzed-up example of pitch-black doom, and now the band have returned to once more pulverise everything before them, but this time in a slightly different way. Continue reading “In the Company of Serpents – Ain-Soph Aur (Review)”

Palmer – Surrounding the Void (Review)

Palmer are a post-metal band from Switzerland and this is their third album.

Palmer play contemporary heavy music that takes in elements of metal, sludge, progressive metal, post-metal and post-hardcore into its embrace. These influences manifest in various ways throughout the album, but Continue reading “Palmer – Surrounding the Void (Review)”

Allochiria – Throes (Review)

This is the second album from Greek sludge/post-metal band Allochiria.

Taking the post-metal holy triumvirate of Isis, Neurosis and Cult of Luna as their base influence, Throes works with this starting point and adds heavier, more aggressive sludge metal elements into the mix. Continue reading “Allochiria – Throes (Review)”

[::]/4 Dots – Aux::in (Review)

[::] are an instrumental post-metal band from Poland. This is their debut album.

Pronounced 4 Dots, the band features an ex-member of the mighty Obscure Sphinx, which immediately made me keen to find out what they had to offer on this release.

The album reveals itself Continue reading “[::]/4 Dots – Aux::in (Review)”

Obscure Sphinx – Epitaphs (Review)

Obscure Sphinx are a post-metal/progressive doom band from Poland. This is their third album.

2013’s Void Mother was one of my favourite albums of that year. Fast forward 3 years and my anticipation for Epitaphs is at fever pitch.

Obscure Sphinx are one of those oh-so-rare bands that are very definitely leaders and not followers. How they haven’t been Continue reading “Obscure Sphinx – Epitaphs (Review)”

Neurosis – Fires Within Fires (Review)

This is the eleventh album from legendary genre-forgers Neurosis. They play post-metal/progressive sludge/doom/whatever.

The impact of Neurosis on the post-metal/sludge/doom/etc. scene is immense and has been well-documented, of course. Suffice to say that this is an important band producing important music. They always have been and probably, (hopefully), always will be. Continue reading “Neurosis – Fires Within Fires (Review)”