Review: Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou ‘The Helm Of Sorrow’ EP
It feels weird, and faintly damning, to start a review with the phrase ‘more of the same’ but when that’s
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Author: Daniel Pietersen
Review: Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou ‘May Our Chambers Be Full’
Collaborative albums can be curious beasts. They often either present themselves as chimerae, their various parts combined but distinctive and
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Review: Anna Von Hausswolff ‘All Thoughts Fly’
When I first saw Anna von Hausswolff live, in the huge space of Tilburg’s 013 venue, what struck me most
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Review: Ulver ‘Flowers Of Evil’
I have a problem with Ulver. I simply cannot get enough of them. This may, at first glance, seem like
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Review: Vile Creature ‘Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!’
Vile Creature’s latest full-length begins with a howl of such ferocity that, even if the rest of the album’s forty-four
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Review: Cold In Berlin ‘Rituals Of Surrender’
Cold In Berlin’s previous album, The Comfort Of Loss & Dust, was one of my favourite releases from 2015. Something
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Review: Sunn O))) ‘Pyroclasts’
My ears always prick up when I hear of a new Sunn O))) recording emerging into the light. Sadly, they
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Review: Circle ‘Terminal’ 2017
The Finnish collective that makes up Circle are one of those bands that have gathered a small dictionary of words
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Harvestman ‘Music For Megaliths’ 2017
With Harvestman, Neurosis’ Steve Von Till has been exploring a much less bombastic form of music; arboreal, earthy and yet
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Se Delan ‘Drifter’ CD/LP/DD 2016
So, you’ve laid waste to countless ears with Iron Monkey, had an in-one-door-out-the-next tenure in Electric Wizard and then basically
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Ommadon – S/T – LP/DD 2016
Ommadon break with their numerical nomenclature in this, their sixth full-length album, but it’s no surprise that they continue the
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