Wilt are a Canadian black metal band and this is their second album.
Wilt’s 2015 debut album Moving Monoliths was a very well-crafted exploration of atmospheric black metal with doom influences. Continue reading “Wilt – Ruin (Review)”
Tag: Post-Metal
Archelon – Tribe of Suns (Review)
This is the debut album from UK sludge/Post-Metal band Archelon.
Last year I came across Archelon’s I//II, which compiled their two previous EPs. This showed the band’s development and progression from their debut EP to the next, and promised very good things for the future. Well, the future is now, and Tribe of Suns is the 46-minute embodiment of the band’s previously seen promise. Continue reading “Archelon – Tribe of Suns (Review)”
CHRCH – Light Will Consume Us All (Review)
CHRCH are a doom/sludge band from the US and this is their second album.
My first encounter with CHRCH was on their split with Fister. I think you can safely say that I fell in love with them at that point, so it’s very exciting that their latest full length release is now here with a new 47 minutes of material for me to get lost in. Continue reading “CHRCH – Light Will Consume Us All (Review)”
Third Island – Omelas (Review)
This is the debut album from Irish post-metal/doom band Third Island.
After the initial promise of Third Island’s debut EP Dusk, the band have now returned with a full 48 minutes of material. This is direct, forthright post-metal, which also takes in influences from doom, sludge, post-rock, and progressive metal. Continue reading “Third Island – Omelas (Review)”
Vyre – Weltformel (Review)
Vyre are a German post-black metal band and this is their third album.
Vyre offer up a 52-minute sophisticated cocktail of electronically enhanced avant-garde/post-black metal, which has been further spiked with keyboards, synths, cello, and violin. Continue reading “Vyre – Weltformel (Review)”
Svalbard – It’s Hard to Have Hope (Review)
Svalbard are a crust/hardcore band from the UK and this is their second album.
It’s Hard to Have Hope is the sound of crust/hardcore bite and metallic aggression coming together to create 38 minutes of passionate music with a message. Continue reading “Svalbard – It’s Hard to Have Hope (Review)”
Talbot – Magnetism (Review)
Talbot are a stoner/doom band from Estonia, and this is their third album.
Talbot are a band that are playing their own brand of stoner/doom metal. Mixing the complimentary parts of stoner, doom, psychedelic, sludge, and post-metal together into an enjoyable 42-minute trip, this is an album to sit back and sink into. Continue reading “Talbot – Magnetism (Review)”
Death Engine – Place Noire (Review)
Death Engine are a French hardcore band and this is their second album.
I like Death Engine. Like, a lot. Mud was a massively enjoyable album of multifaceted, nuanced hardcore, showing a breadth of delivery and depth of substance that’s extremely rare to encounter outside of the mighty Converge. This should not be taken to mean that Death Engine sound like Converge, however. Continue reading “Death Engine – Place Noire (Review)”
Hundred Year Old Man – Breaching (Review)
Hundred Year Old Man are a post-metal/sludge band from the UK and this is their debut album.
Breaching contains almost 60 minutes of affecting, emotive material. With a post-metal approach to intensity the band wield their various influences to produce atmospheric sludge metal that’s a monolithic and immersive listening experience. Continue reading “Hundred Year Old Man – Breaching (Review)”
Soldat Hans – Es Taut (Review)
Soldat Hans are a doom band from Switzerland and this is their second album.
Es Taut contains 55 minutes of music spread out over three tracks. This is a colossal and ambitious album, one that’s delivered by a band with matching talent, skill, and ability. Continue reading “Soldat Hans – Es Taut (Review)”
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