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)”
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)”
Uneven Structure are a French metal band and this is their second album.
This is a modern progressive/technical metal album that walks a path between ambient atmospheric soundscapes and Meshuggah-esque poly-rhythms and heaviness. Continue reading “Uneven Structure – La Partition (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)”
This is the second album from Mothersloth, a Spanish stoner/doom metal band.
Has it really been almost three years since Mothersloth’s stellar debut album Moribund Star? Apparently so. Time moves fast, but at least we now have a new release from this talented band. Continue reading “Mothersloth – Moon Omen (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)”
This is the second album from Canadian one-man drone/doom/other project The Sun Through a Telescope.
This is a varied and diverse release; an hour of drone, doom and experimental sounds that mixes a huge array of influences from all manner of styles and genres. Continue reading “The Sun Through a Telescope – Black Hole Smile (Review)”
This is the third album from Nemesis Sopor, a German black metal band.
Nemesis Sopor play atmospheric black metal with long songs and a cutting, second wave influence. Continue reading “Nemesis Sopor – MMXL (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)”
Ohhms are a doom band from the UK and this is their debut album.
Ohhms made a bit of a splash in the doom metal waters with their debut EP Bloom, and now with their first full-length, that splash could become a tsunami. Continue reading “Ohhms – The Fool (Review)”
This is the debut album from Danish black metal one-man project Råttkung.
This is a band that we’ve encountered before, (Dark Is the Beginning, Unborn Undead), and that has impressed on both occasions.
Unborn Undead saw the music just starting to develop some elements of atmospheric black metal, and I’m pleased to say that Continue reading “Råttkung – Metamorphosis (Review)”