This is the fifth album from US doom band Morne.
Engraved with Pain combines elements of doom, sludge, post-metal, and crust, to create a 41-minute album of bleak emotion and textured heaviness. Continue reading “Morne – Engraved with Pain (Review)”
Tag: Post-Metal
Briqueville – IIII (Review)
This is the fourth album from Belgian post-metal band Briqueville.
IIII contains 39 minutes of dark, enigmatic music. Briqueville’s style is deeply atmospheric, and IIII is the sort of album that will drag you into the darkness as it hypnotises with its shifting walls of rich mood. Continue reading “Briqueville – IIII (Review)”
Unverkalt – A Lump of Death: A Chaos of Dead Lovers (Review)
This is the second album from Greek post-metal band Unverkalt.
How to get my attention: start a promo email by stating something is for fans of Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas and Made out of Babies. The downside of this though is that the music then has a lot to live up to. So, across the 47 minutes of material on A Lump of Death: A Chaos of Dead Lovers, do Unverkalt impress, or disappoint? Continue reading “Unverkalt – A Lump of Death: A Chaos of Dead Lovers (Review)”
Rorcal – Silence (Review)
Rorcal are a Swiss post-black/doom metal band and this is their sixth album.
Rorcal have shown what they’re capable of very ably on previous releases such as their 2014 split with Process of Guilt, 2016’s κρέων (Creon), 2019’s Muladona, and 2021’s collaboration with Earthflesh, so I was eager to experience the punishment Silence inevitably held in store for me, whatever form it took. On this release we get 42 minutes of new material, and it is not to be approached by the unwary. Continue reading “Rorcal – Silence (Review)”
Spurv – Brefjære (Review)
Spurv are from Norway and play post-rock. This is their fourth album.
Spurv play an instrumental, (mostly), brand of atmospheric music that falls somewhere between post-rock and post-metal. Across 45 minutes Brefjære brings a musical odyssey to life, and shows just how affecting this sort of style can be. Continue reading “Spurv – Brefjære (Review)”
Deadly Carnage – Endless Blue (Review)
Deadly Carnage are a post-black metal band from Italy and this is their fifth album.
Following on from 2018’s Through the Void, Above the Suns, Deadly Carnage have now returned with 39 minutes of new material, and they have returned on fine form. Continue reading “Deadly Carnage – Endless Blue (Review)”
Tideless – Eye of Water (Review)
Tideless are a death/doom metal band from the US and this is their second album.
Eye of Water is a monster of an album, in more ways than one. Running to an imposing 75 minutes, Tideless spew forth five tracks of inhuman death/doom of an unexpected and idiosyncratic synth-enhanced nature. Continue reading “Tideless – Eye of Water (Review)”
Torpor – Abscission (Review)
This is the third album from UK sludge/doom metal band Torpor.
Torpor play heavy, mood-focused music that crushes as much as it affectingly moves. Combining sludge, doom, and post-metal into 41 minutes of gritty material, Abscission is a record that is worth hearing if you’re partial to the style. Continue reading “Torpor – Abscission (Review)”
Black Birch – Black Birch (Review)
This is the debut EP from Black Birch, a Swedish black metal band.
Containing 22 minutes of music, Black Birch is an atmospheric black metal release that showcases the very capable talents of this new black metal act in no uncertain terms. Continue reading “Black Birch – Black Birch (Review)”
Mairu – Sol Cultus (Review)
This is the debut album from UK post-metal band Mairu.
Sol Cultus brings together post-metal, sludge, and doom into a 49-minute feast of atmospheric heavy music. Mairu’s vision is a mood-rich immersive one, and Sol Cultus achieves their lofty ambitions. Continue reading “Mairu – Sol Cultus (Review)”
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