Tag NYC
I’m going to borrow the band’s own description of themselves here: “an ‘avant-garde post-metal project, delivering larger than life sounds through, deeply emotional music” Guhts are from New York, and many interesting links are drawn up, encompassing post-hardcore, atmospheric sludge,… Continue Reading →
If you are not familiar with Brooklyn NYC’s Gravesend then click here for my review of their debut album. It is killer (the album not the review – although it is quite witty and well thought out but I digress). All… Continue Reading →
The last couple of Black Anvil albums had a mixed reception here, that’s not all that surprising and I think the comment that ‘There are too many disparate and conflicting elements” in regard to last one ‘As Was’ kind of… Continue Reading →
This is Imperial Triumphant’s fifth album and I confess that till now I didn’t know any of them. Looking at their cv, I was surprised as a varied approach to metal with a later tendency to an avant-garde technical black… Continue Reading →
Statiqbloom are about hard beats, haunting, hallucinogenic, post-industrial electronics. With this information I prepared for my trip. The scene is set with the industrial sound of chaos. Dark thumping electro with whispering vocals signal “Alcestis”. This takes me back to… Continue Reading →
NYC crossover kings Prong have been ploughing their own furrow for well over three decades and show no signs of retiring to their pipe and slippers. The merging of a Pantera-esque swagger with an industrial edge forged through their links… Continue Reading →
2019 has been a truly exceptional year for the noise genre, with new releases from Merzbow, Lingua Ignota, Uniform and The Body and now Pharmakon’s fourth album, ‘Devour’. Margaret Chardiet’s output via the medium of Pharmakon has an iconic ability… Continue Reading →
We talked to up-and-coming heavy metal trio Sanhedrin from Brooklyn, NYC, currently on tour in Europe. Between the sound check and their show in Vienna, Austria, Erica Stoltz (bass, vocals), Jeremy Sosville (guitar, backing vocals, also of Black Anvil), and… Continue Reading →
Prong, the New York City based trio and brainchild of Tommy Victor, undoubtedly one of the most influential musicians of our era. A pioneer in the Industrial Metal and Groove Metal genres, a man with a knack for writing some… Continue Reading →
Christ, it’s like being in the middle of an industrial cyber war. Distant and organised screaming punctuate this very dark edition of Dr Who. Throbbing electronic sounds are at the epicentre. Margaret Chardiet’s Pharmakon project is in its tenth year,… Continue Reading →
Time can fall heavily on most of us: as I type this the press is sadly full of stories of musical icons succumbing to the ravages of age; my hair is getting grayer by the day; and once vibrant bands… Continue Reading →
There’s a lot to digest here and that is not surprising as this album has apparently been a decade in the making. First we linger on the strange embossed sigils (taken apparently from over 60 alphabets) on the album artwork… Continue Reading →