ALBUM REVIEW: Downfall Of Gaia – Silhouettes Of Disgust
At the time of writing a look out of the window reveals overcast and grey skies, whilst as quick a glance at the news is equally as bleak and miserable. It is hard to pay attention to the discourse in...
View ArticleALBUM REVIEW: boygenius – the record
How often can it be said when speaking of supergroups that its individual members are at the peak of their powers? The only reason it perhaps cannot be said of the members of boygenius is simply that...
View ArticleALBUM REVIEW: Dødheimsgard – Black Medium Current
With the first release in eight years, Norway’s Dødheimsgard return armed with a reputation for the abstract and the almost absurd. Formerly a more pure Black Metal act, 1999’s seminal 666...
View ArticleALBUM REVIEW: Wallowing – Earth Reaper
Much like the dense expanses of sci-fi space that their music thematically focuses upon, the UK’s Wallowing are a band of mystery. With their identities largely hidden and their physical presence in...
View ArticleALBUM REVIEW: Adanowsky – The Fool
The multicultural and multi-talented Adanowsky has turned his hands to many things – acting, directing, producing, and making music. Written during the pandemic and taking inspiration from tarot...
View ArticleALBUM REVIEW: Trevor’s Head – A View From Below
Trevor’s Head are self-described as the most exciting thing to come out of Redhill, Surrey in three centuries. Without being a local, a quick investigation suggests little of note from the town bar...
View ArticleALBUM REVIEW: Aodon – Portraits
There are certain facets of life and the world that are absolute. Until the inevitable apocalypse it is simply a given that the sun will rise and set, that the tides ebb and flow, and that, most...
View ArticleALBUM REVIEW: Scar Symmetry – The Singularity (Phase II – Xenotaph)
It has been nine years since Scar Symmetry released their previous album and the first in a planned trilogy, and time has seemingly not been the kindest to them since then with a plethora of delays...
View ArticleALBUM REVIEW: Voice Of Baceprot – Retas
It isn’t often that a band can make a legitimate claim at making a cultural impact on, or even before, their debut album is released, however, it is one that Voice Of Baceprot (or VOB) can certainly...
View ArticleALBUM REVIEW: Calligram – Position – Momentum
In a world of ever-increasing hardship and struggle, it is easy to feel that dread is a more regularly present and less surprising companion day to day. Certainly, that is a sense that the...
View ArticleALBUM REVIEW: The Zenith Passage – Datalysium
Having been seven years since the release of their stellar debut full-length album Solipsist (Unique Leader Records), it was sadly seeming to be the case that Technical Death Metaller’s The Zenith...
View ArticleALBUM REVIEW: The Sun’s Journey Through The Night- Worldless
Whilst perhaps not as highly regarded for the genre as the likes of Norway, the United Kingdom does have a formidable pedigree for producing Black Metal, whether that being down to recognisable names...
View ArticleALBUM REVIEW: An Autumn For Crippled Children – Closure
Despite the mystique around the band itself (with the identity of the members largely unknown), musically The Netherland’s An Autumn For Crippled Children have been consistent and mostly familiar....
View ArticleALBUM REVIEW: Celestial Sanctuary- Insatiable Thirst For Torment
In an ever-increasingly rich and exciting underground Death Metal scene in the UK, Celestial Sanctuary have been a prominent standard bearer and the ones most likely to break out to bigger things....
View ArticleALBUM REVIEW: Great Falls – Objects Without Pain
Well into a decade now, Seattle, Washington’s Great Falls have perhaps been an underrated entity, but they certainly are a special one. Their sound embraces the arena around noise rock and...
View ArticleALBUM REVIEW: Woe – Legacies of Frailty
It has been six years since we last saw new material from Chris Grigg’s Black Metal outfit Woe, and on a global scale it has certainly been an eventful and ultimately catastrophic time in which...
View ArticleALBUM REVIEW: Source – Emergence
As album titles go, Emergence (Self-Released) is a powerful and meaningful moniker for Progressive Metallers Source at this point in their careers. Firstly, it references the album’s inspiration and,...
View ArticleALBUM REVIEW: OWDWYR – Receptor
All the signs are there: this is not going to be the easiest listening experience. From the likely purposefully awkward moniker, the cacophony of guest musicians (mostly drummers) and the...
View ArticleALBUM REVIEW: Sorcerer – Reign Of The Reaper
Nearly ten years into their career return, Swedish metallers Sorcerer have proven to be a somewhat underappreciated but certainly formidable presence. Perhaps it is down to their sound which sits on...
View ArticleALBUM REVIEW: Convocation – No Dawn For The Caliginous Night
Winter is undeniably creeping forward as the nights draw longer and the cold ever sharper. Even aside from this, happenings feel ultimately bleak and the world is increasingly grief-stricken as a...
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