This is the second album from UK post-metal band The Salt Pale Collective.
Bringing together doom, sludge, post-rock, and post-metal components into a bleakly compelling whole, The Salt Pale Collective are quite the proposition. Across 35 minutes, …And God Said Nothing channels six nightmare states, each working both together and individually to end the world. Continue reading “The Salt Pale Collective – …And God Said Nothing (Review)”
This is the debut album from sludge metal band Stay Dead.
Featuring members of Aiwass and High Desert Queen, Stay Dead play a compelling mix of sludge and doom. Beneath the Weight of Worlds contains five original songs, plus a cover, bringing together 36 minutes of material in total.
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This is the third album from French black metal band Mourir.
Following on from 2020’s Animal Bouffe Animal and 2022’s Disgrâce, Nous, le Venin contains 41 minutes of new, ferociously grim material from Mourir. If you haven’t encountered Mourir before, then steel yourself before entering their threatening world. Continue reading “Mourir – Nous, le Venin (Review)”
This is the second album from Irish doom/sludge band Soothsayer.
The Unbinding follows on from 2016’s At this Great Depth and 2021’s Echoes of the Earth, heralding the return of the bone-shaking Soothsayer. Across five colossal songs Soothsayer showcase a sound that’s developed, while also retaining what made them so good in the first place. Continue reading “Soothsayer – The Unbinding (Review)”
Acid Bath’s UK debut is one of the hottest shows of the year, in more ways than one. Add to this the mighty Conan and Green Lung, and you have an absolutely scorching bill on an absolutely scorching day. It’s roasting inside and outside of the venue, and it promises to be an extremely sweaty night, but a brilliant one too. Continue reading “Acid Bath/Green Lung/Conan – Academy 1, Manchester – 25/06/26 (Live Review)”
This is the debut album from US grindcore band Kuzu Knot.
Deceitful Above All Things contains 34 minutes of merciless grinding darkness, but of a rarefied sort. Kuzu Knot’s music is abrasive and harsh, but is also a good deal more than just this. Continue reading “Kuzu Knot – Deceitful Above All Things (Review)”
This is the second album from UK sludge/post-metal band Urzah.
A Tranquil Void is the 49-minute successor to 2024’s The Scorching Gaze. This debut record caused more than a few to pay attention to Urzah’s progressive, sludgy post-metal. Have they band managed to capitalise on this for its follow up? Continue reading “Urzah – A Tranquil Void (Review)”
Erdve are from Lithuania and play blackened hardcore/sludge and this is their third album.
Following on from 2018’s Vaitojimas and 2021’s Savigaila, Epigrama delivers 43 minutes of material for listeners to get stuck into. Erdve combine blackened hardcore, sludge, and metallic heaviness into a record that takes no prisoners. Continue reading “Erdve – Epigrama (Review)”
Tooms are an Irish progressive sludge metal band and this is their second album.
Tooms impressed with their 2020 debut The Orb Offers Massive Signals, so Karst is to be approached with great interest and expectation. Tooms have delivered 48 minutes of new material, and it’s worth paying attention to. Continue reading “Tooms – Karst (Review)”
This is the fourth album from The Fifth Alliance, a post-metal band from the Netherlands.
Having graced us with Death Poems in 2015 and then The Depth of the Darkness in 2019, The Fifth Alliance have returned once again, after what seems like an age, with the 38-minute Stenahoria. Armed with a new drummer and a new vocalist, The Fifth Alliance have been reborn in darkness. Continue reading “The Fifth Alliance – Stenahoria (Review)”
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