Review: Mantar ‘Pain Is Forever And This Is The End’
Sometimes the way we engage with a particular band or artist over time makes no sense whatsoever… I bought Mantar’s
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Metal Blade Records
In Search Of Tone: Johannes Persson Of Cult Of Luna
Do I even need to write a paragraph or two about Cult of Luna? It’s a metal band from Sweden,
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Review: Cult Of Luna ‘The Long Road North’
Cult Of Luna have now served twenty years in their quest to push the limitations of what they envision hardcore
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Review: The Ocean ‘Phanerozoic Live’
For those unfamiliar with German progressive/post-metal band The Ocean (Collective), this unique collector’s ‘live’ edition of their double concept album
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Review: Dread Sovereign ‘Alchemical Warfare’
I ‘ve been uncharacteristically out of the loop on Dread Sovereign, brainchild of Primordial’s Nemtheanga, as this is their third
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Review: Anaal Nathrakh ‘Endarkenment’
It is hard to believe it has been nearly twenty years since Birmingham’s Anaal Nathrakh crawled into the daylight and
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Review: The Ocean ‘Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic’
At the ripe old age of twenty, and now due to release their eighth studio album, prog metal meisters The
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Review: Cirith Ungol ‘Forever Black’
Who in their wildest dreams would have predicted such a distinguished return from the Ventura metal giants? This is their
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Review: Cult Of Luna ‘A Dawn To Fear’
In 2016 Swedish avant-garde metal titans Cult Of Luna collaborated with US underground noise siren Julie Christmas to produce one
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Sourvein ‘Aquatic Occult’ CD/LP/DD 2016
Cape Fear River, NC natives Sourvein shouldn’t need an introduction, having pioneered an American southern doom scene with enough history
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Brimstone Coven ‘Black Magic’ CD/LP/DD 2016
Brimstone Coven are the essence of 70s doom. When doom wasn’t quite a thing, it was more occult rock shot
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