Review: LLNN ‘Unmaker’
There was a moment in the early to mid-noughties, where post-metal (or whatever you choose to call it) grabbed the
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Pelagic Records
Review: MONO ‘Pilgrimage Of The Soul’
Japanese experimentalists MONO are a band that have been in my periphery for roughly two decades. I’ve heard their name,
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Review: Year Of No Light ‘Consolamentum’
Bordeaux’s post-metal giants Year Of No Light have returned with their fourth full length, Consolamentum. A sprawling and unruly album,
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Review: Lustmord & Karin Park ‘Alter’
Lustmord – Brian Williams is a prolific musician/composer/producer whose career hearkens back to 1980 when he first became known as
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Review: Årabrot ‘Norwegian Gothic’
I’m going to be brutally honest; until now I’ve never listened to Årabrot. Even though they have an extensive back-catalogue,
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Review: MONO ‘Beyond The Past – Live In London With The Platinum Anniversary Orchestra’
Apocalypse Now. MONO‘s haunting, emotionally stark but ultimately uplifting canon could be the sound-track to the COVID-19 lockdown. It encapsulates
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Review: Årabrot ‘The World Must Be Destroyed’ EP
In anticipation of their upcoming 2021 full length Norwegian Gothic, releases April 9th on Pelagic Records and available for pre-order,
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Review: pg.lost ‘Oscillate’
To start an album with a slow burn is a risky move. Many bands might want to grab the attention
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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: envy ‘The Fallen Crimson’
For a while there, things did not look great for envy. A true workhorse of a band, the Tokyo-based troupe
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Cult Of Luna / The Old Wind ‘Råångest’ 12”/DD 2016
Råångest opens with Cult Of Luna’s cover of seminal 1980s proto-thrash metal band Amebix’s Last Will And Testament. Cult Of
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