Tag Dark Rock
Love it or loathe it but genre definition is one of those things us music writers seem unable to not dissect and in the case of Dutch band Dool it still makes me tut when I open go to site… Continue Reading →
“Ladies and Gentlemen, The portals of darkness are open, and the Dead haunt over the Earth. Here comes The Vision Bleak”. This year marks an almost unfathomable 20 years since those words were part of an intro that launched “The… Continue Reading →
On This Earth is the rather short but appealing and concise debut album of Inver, a goth metal/rock three piece from Cheltenham. The band members come from diverse musical backgrounds – extreme metal, alternative acoustic, and traditional folk –, but… Continue Reading →
This album was given the very brief description of Black Rock Country when I spied it in the list of ready and willing releases. Gotta say that description intrigued me. I was envisaging something like the Canadian terror country of… Continue Reading →
After having listened to Hope Springs Infernal, the first track on Gospelheim’s debut album Ritual & Repetition, I thought I had the band all figured out. Here was yet another goth rock project, playing very appealing music, music I liked… Continue Reading →
Hailing from Berlin, Pyre of Descent are a band that have flown under the radar of this particular scribe, their eponymous 2018 release now being followed by ‘Peaks Of Eternal Light’. A combination of the band name, upbeat album title,… Continue Reading →
‘Black Anima’ opens with ‘Anima Nera’, a loop of 2 plus minutes of atmospheric, symphonic, mesmerising melody, accompanied by the angelic tones of Cristina Scabbia, a beautiful start to the latest creation from the Italian behemoths, Lacuna Coil. ‘Sword Of… Continue Reading →
Whoa ok, I have been listening to this a lot over the last week or so and felt like I had channeled the inner essence of some of the songs on it as far as the dark subject matter was… Continue Reading →
It was way back in 2013 when we last heard from dark rock band Ash And Coal who had kindly sent in their EP ‘Agnostica’ to us on vinyl. At the time I was pretty impressed with their moribund but… Continue Reading →
Not much to go on here, just a CD with no details at all and under 12 minutes of music. Luckily the label had told us what they had sent over in a list and we were able to fill… Continue Reading →
‘Sanatana Dharma’ is the debut album from Greek band The Slayerking, a side-project fronted by Nighfall’s Efthimis Karadimas, and featuring Kostas Kyriakopoulos on guitar and Anna Eleftherou on drums. The first thing you may notice is the CD’s cover, bearing… Continue Reading →
Rusty Pacemaker is a one man band project out of Lanzenkirchen, Austria. Inspired by the late Bathory mastermind Quorthon, Rusty (his pseudonym) linked up with drummer Franz Löchinger and female vocalist ‘Lady K’ to complete the second album of his… Continue Reading →