Bloodstock Festival: Day One – Catton Hall, UK
With humble origins as a smaller, indoor festival in 2001, and being headlined then by metal legends Saxon due to connections to organiser Paul Gregory, Bloodstock steadily grew and grew until...
View ArticleBloodstock Festival: Day Two- Catton Hall, UK
With the Sophie Lancaster Stage headliners finishing late into the night, as well as other forms of entertainment in the arena or the Serpent’s Lair VIP Area (or for the less brave of course, beers at...
View ArticleDiemonds – Never Wanna Die
As much as we celebrate those bands on the cutting edge, the ones that push the sonic boundaries time and time again, sometimes all you really need is some adrenaline inducing, straight up rock. The...
View ArticleBloodstock Festival: Day Three – Catton Hall, UK
As the final day of Bloodstock 2015 begins, it is once again with the shock of no sign of rain once again. Someone, somewhere must have made some kind of sacrifice to some form of deity to ward off the...
View ArticleExxasens – Back To Earth
Since the 2013 release of 'Satellite', Spanish post-rock/proggers Exxasens have undergone some substantial development, primarily from being pretty much the one man project of one Jordi Ruiz into what...
View ArticleWhere Wasps Now Nest – David Porter and Gareth Nash of Ageless Oblivion
After their triumphant set at Bloodstock 2015, Ghost Cult grabbed Ageless Oblivion’s David Porter and Gareth Nash for a few words about the show itself, the festival, plans for the near future and the...
View ArticleEater Of Worlds – Dennie Grondelaers And Reinier Schenk Of Saille
While roaming the green green grass of Bloodstock Festival earlier this year, Ghost Cult caught up with Saille to discuss their first appearance at the legendary festival, and how work on their next...
View ArticleTesseracT – Polaris
The history of TesseracT is very disjointed and confusing in places, both sonically and in terms of personnel. With a continuous base of founder and guitarist Acle Kahney alongside Jay Postones, James...
View ArticleHorisont – Odyssey
The term ‘retro rock’ is quite an ambiguous and, at times, ignorant one; used to describe any band that shows obvious traits from vintage bands whilst often ignoring when the band steps beyond these...
View ArticleUfomammut – Jex Thoth: Live at Islington Academy, London
Despite much of the mass media largely ignoring such bands, or at least making little mention of them, the underground metal scene has proven to show an abundance of talent, amazing presence and...
View ArticleChon – Grow
In modern progressive metal there is an all too common tendency to flesh things out far too much, concentrating on writing the most overly complicated and difficult to decipher pieces possible. Many a...
View ArticleRust In Peace… – Jay Postones of TesseracT
Since their roots as a bedroom project of guitarist Acle Kahney in 2003, UK prog metaller’s TesseracT have overcome and experienced much more than many of their peers could ever have imagined, all the...
View ArticleThe Definite Incarnation – Jay Postones Of TesseracT (Part 2)
If there is one thing that djent bands are very adept at it is their ability to lose vocalists, so much so it seems to be a rite of passage amongst bands of this ilk, from Monuments and Periphery to...
View ArticleOpeth – Live At Royal Theatre, London
You have to hand it to Opeth, they certainly know how to celebrate in style. After the massively successful anniversary of 'Blackwater Park' (Music For Nations), which saw the album played in its...
View ArticleGazpacho – Molok
In the world of contemporary prog, very few bands take it to such artsy and fascinating landscapes as Norwegian’s Gazpacho, whether it’s in their musicality, their craftsmanship or their narrative....
View ArticleWhitechapel – The Brotherhood Of The Blade
Whitechapel are a perfect modern example of the varying levels of success that one can achieve on different sides of the Atlantic. Debuting at the time when deathcore was either the next big thing or a...
View ArticleAnathema – A Sort Of Homecoming
They say you should never judge a book by its cover, but sometimes the front can tell you exactly what to expect and emphasise something’s importance. The stunning scene from Liverpool’s Cathedral...
View ArticleJody Seabody and The Whirls – Holographic Slammer
It is commonplace for bands to state their admiration and inspiration from a wide range of influences and styles, and rightly so, ranging from the classics to lesser known and the newer, but very few...
View ArticleKampfar – Profan
Over the course of more than 20 years, black metallers Kampfar have always been one of the genre’s most understated acts; certainly one never reaching the acclaim or, of course, the headlines of some...
View ArticleDiatessaron – Sunshine
Despite being a new name on the tongues of many a prog fan, Canadians Diatessaron have in actual fact been an active unit since 2007. That it has taken 8 years to get to their full length debut...
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