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Rather than worry their band name sounds like some Ikea equivalent of a branded pack of dehydrated gravy granules, Sweden’s ORO, have pretensions above a particularly crude segue of an opening sentence attempting to breath life into a review of… Continue Reading →
It’s somewhat of a visual/aural oxymoron having Sheffield based three-piece Gozer’s debut album creep its way into my mind this morning. Looking out onto the gently browning grass in my garden, as the sun beats a steady tattoo of vitamin… Continue Reading →
The Bloody Mallard are described as a heavy psych, prog and alt-rock project, recalling the likes of King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Baroness, Yob and Elder. This album starts with a monstrous 11-minute instrumental piece called “Haemoglobin”. I felt the psychedelic… Continue Reading →
If anyone ever mentions German instrumental bands, Long Distance Calling comes into my mind. Noorvik is a new one on me. “Omission” is their second album. We’re led to expect “dynamic arcs of suspense with progressive song structures … an… Continue Reading →
Parisians, Lost In Kiev, return with this their third full length effort that see’s the band step off their well-trodden path of long form epic stanzas of alt/math rock mini operas and segue into shorter more direct songs. It feels… Continue Reading →
To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of ‘Somewhere Along the Highway’, Swedish powerhouse Cult of Luna are taking it on the road and, for the first time ever, will be playing the album in its entirety. This is great news for… Continue Reading →
Today things get really busy. Within ten minutes of doors opening a band is on at the Boston Arms Music room, the second they finish another starts upstairs at The Dome. This is the case all day with 4 groups… Continue Reading →
The six tracks of this album by Polish band Fleshworld have been the result of four years work. It’s appropriate that such labour should result in post-metal. But there’s post-metal of the drawn out variety, and the sort which reaches… Continue Reading →
These sparkly post-gazers first caught my attention just over a year ago with their debut mini album Sin4tr4 on Golden Morning Sounds. Now with Immortal Frost Productions they have expanded upon their lush and sometimes fragile soundscapes to bring out… Continue Reading →
Ah, there’s a familiar strain here. Is that the technical prog wizardry of the Tipton brothers, they of Zero Hour and Cynthesis? It certainly is. There’s no nonsense here. I don’t have to worry about lyrics complementing or contrasting with… Continue Reading →
Scroll down to bottom of review for photos! The annual Damnation Festival held in Leeds is, I think it is fair to say, the biggest indoor metal event in the North of England. Every year it sees a huge crowd… Continue Reading →
There are a number of adjectives I could apply to describe this work by The Chant from Finland– to start let’s go for calm, dreamy, atmospheric, sinister and progressive. Played in a post-rock style with a great deal of colour,… Continue Reading →