Review: Close The Hatch ‘Modern Witchcraft’
Independent of any strict classification, yet beholden to the lineage of conceptual metal, Ohio based Close The Hatch stride confidently
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Post-Metal
Review: Feral Light ‘Light Vapor’
The world is a scary fucking place at the moment, usually I start my reviews with a wise crack but
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Review: Heron ‘Time Immemorial’
Coming out on the well-respected Sludgelord Records, Vancouver’s Heron’s third LP is described in the accompanying press release as ‘sludge’.
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Review: Holden ‘Ursa Minor’
Language profoundly influences our perceptions. Fellow Antipodeans please note: Holden the band are not named after our beloved blue-collar chariot.
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Review: Today Is The Day ‘No Good To Anyone’
Steve Austin has proven over a career spanning twenty plus years that he is one of music’s great survivors. His
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Review: V ‘Led Into Exile’
Out earlier in the autumn, Sweden’s sludgey doom lords V‘s second record Led Into Exile is a forty minute journey
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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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Terzij De Horde ‘Self’ CD/LP/DD 2015
And here it is, the debut album by black metal trailblazers Terzij De Horde from Utrecht, the Netherlands. The progressive
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MAKE ‘The Golden Veil’ LP/DD 2015
Anyone familiar with Chapel Hill, NC’s ‘surface scene’ is probably aware of its longstanding history of American conservatism gift wrapped
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Serial Hawk ‘Searching For Light’ CD/LP/DD 2015
Seattle doom newcomers Serial Hawk recently signed to Bleeding Light Records to release Searching for Light, their debut full length
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Sorxe ‘Surrounded By Shadows’ CD/DD 2014
Some bands, for better or worse, fall into easily outlined genre definitions. They take the conventions of an established genre
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