DoctoR DooM – This Seed We Have Sown
Graced with a cover sporting two shadowy, hooded druid like figures turning away from view, you may be forgiven for expecting 'This Seed We Have Sown' (Ripple) to be one of those occult rock and metal...
View ArticleRusskaja – Peace, Love & Russian Roll
Life is full of mysteries: how does the universe expand into nothing? How did The Miz ever headline Wrestlemania, why has the UK Eurovision board not called Skindred yet, and most baffling of all, how...
View ArticleRamblin’ Man Fair Festival (Saturday) – Maidstone, Kent (UK)
In the absence of the much missed High Voltage Festival the UK festival scene has been screaming for a high profile outdoor festival which specializes in the worlds of classic rock and progressive...
View ArticleRamblin’ Man Fair (Sunday) – Maidstone, UK
After the glorious weather of the Saturday, Sunday greets us with rain. Lots and lots of rain and some dampened (chortle chortle) moods. As a result the arena certainly seems noticeably emptier than...
View ArticleChelsea Wolfe – Abyss
Over the course of her career singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe has hardly given what you would call conventional output. Drawing influence from a distinctly varied and wide range of influences, her...
View ArticleTerminal Cheesecake- Cheese Brain Fondue: Live From Marseille
Formed in 1988, England’s Terminal Cheesecake were a much underrated entity, at least it would seem from their relatively unknown status during their years of inactivity and from the quiet nature of...
View ArticlePop Evil – Up
It may be all too easy to scoff at bands that come from that America specialty of post-grunge hard rock acts following the likes of Nickelback, bands often cited as lowest common denominator rock and...
View ArticleAgent Fresco – Destrier
Whatever is in the water in Iceland it should really be bottled and sold, as the island nation has been a hot bed for stunning and captivating music for a number of years. From the likes of Sigur Ros...
View ArticleBloodstock 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...
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