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Album Reviews

  • Garganjua – Toward The Sun

    Garganjua have been ticking away for a few years now in the UK metal scene, slowly carving out a spot for themselves as a well-respected and forward-thinking doom outfit. Part of what has kept their music ever-evolving is their...

    • Posted 4 years ago

  • Sepultura – Quadra

    At this point there is probably no need to give any background as the Sepultura story is well known by now, from humble beginnings in Brazil they became one the biggest bands in metal by the early nineties before...

    • Posted 4 years ago

  • My Dying Bride – The Ghost of Orion

    One of the pioneers of death-doom and now a household name in goth-doom circles, each My Dying Bride release is met with much anticipation. The Ghost of Orion sees My Dying Bride return with a full-length studio album for...

    • Posted 4 years ago

  • Deathwhite – Grave Image

    It can’t be easy releasing a death-doom / goth-doom album in the same year that My Dying Bride are also releasing a studio album, let alone a mere 5 weeks to the day before MDB’s latest release. Fortunately, Deathwhite...

    • Posted 4 years ago

  • Intronaut – Fluid Existential Inversions

    In progressive heavy music circles, the name ‘Intronaut’ no longer needs any intro, they have been around for a decade and a half and Fluid Existential Inversions is their sixth full-length studio album. In the niche that is prog,...

    • Posted 4 years ago

  • Alcest – Spiritual Instinct

    French blackgaze pioneers Alcest released their sixth full-length album Spiritual Instinct back in October last year their first with new label Nuclear Blast Records. Nuclear Blast have a reputation amongst many metal fans for producing many bands in a...

    • Posted 4 years ago

  • Xenobiotic – Mordrake

    To the ears of this humble fan and writer, there is just something more interesting about progressive heavy bands, or even bands that inject a little progressiveness into their sound, than about non-progressive bands. It’s the increased dynamic awareness,...

    • Posted 4 years ago

  • Hideous Divinity – Simulacrum

    Over the past 15 years Italy has developed it’s own sound and identity when it comes to death metal. Bands like: Hour of Penance, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Ad Nauseam and Septycal Gorge are just a few to name. Then there...

    • Posted 4 years ago

  • Voyager – Colours In The Sun

    Australian prog-metallers Voyager returns with their seventh full-length album Colours in the Sun delivering another dose of 80s-pop-infused-electro-prog-metal. Rarely do I consider a metal album of any subgenre to be ‘wholesome’, yet this is the word that keeps coming...

    • Posted 4 years ago

  • Opeth – In Cauda Venenum

    Opeth released their thirteenth album In Cauda Venenum in September this year, in preparation for an extensive world tour. In Cauda Venenum continues in Opeth more recent style heavily influenced by 70s progressive rock (as opposed to their death...

    • Posted 4 years ago
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