Philadelphia’s NOTHING are an intriguing prospect. Signed to Relapse who is usually associated with more abrasive types of music, this is an emotional heavy weight contender rather than an ear battering visceral experience. Walking the line between bright shimmering shoe gaze and darker themes,…
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The underground can be a lonely and difficult place to be if nobody knows who you are. Especially if you’d finished recording an album’s worth of material to release into the wider world, but you have no audience to release it to. For reasons…
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The Reid brothers would be proud. Massa, Italy’s up and coming drug-induced duo, Grass On The Sun, tread the Jesus and Mary Chain path and valiantly fend off the fate of mediocrity – a fate that rightfully dooms the more forgettable ‘too slick for…
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Nevermind Me play shoegaze. Nevermind Me play dreampop. Nevermind Me play… black metal. Generic cross-pollination is commonplace nowadays, and it takes style and originality to stand out. Nevermind Me have plenty of both. Not that they completely defy categorisation, or that they can sit…
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I, I, I, am not crazy and that’s NOT how it goes, and I, I, I, am not nervous. I, I, I, am just trying to figure out why three of the four extended song titles on Fatalism’s debut ‘Mystery Of Death’ begin with…
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Having been a proponent of Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard’s forays into neoclassical dark wave over the course of their 20+ year collective history as Dead Can Dance, hearing Nyogtha‘s ‘The Black Void Between The Stars’ was like a reintroduction to a familiar friend;…
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You can usually find some intentional humour on a band’s bandcamp page – Southern State, for instance, refer to their sound as ‘stoner’, ‘wizard’ and ‘sad bastard’. That’ll be something to do with their super-heavy metallic sound taking major cues from post-rock and shoegaze…
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Holy hell this is one refreshing album. It’s been a long time since I’ve enjoyed a full album in the way I’m enjoying this. I’m still trying to pinpoint some genres to pigeon hole this into but there’s so many that it’s fucking difficult…
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Anyone who is an aficionado of extreme music is familiar with, and loves, some of the work that Justin Broadrick has produced. His presence and influence has towered over extreme music for nearly 25 years, from the insane Grindcore blast of Napalm Death’s ‘Scum’,…
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Well. I’ve had this sitting in my metaphorical review pile for a good while and, despite having listened to it in its entirety a few times, I’m still completely on the fence as to its relative charms. Having deliberated over it for some time,…
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