Tag Post Metal
Surfing the seas of time for almost two decades, The Ocean have arrived in the here and now. Holocene is the band’s newest long player released on their very own Pelagic Records and named after the current geological epoch, the… Continue Reading →
Whilst in the world of classical music, instrumental pieces are the norm, in the rock genre it can be a hard thing to pull off. There is a pretty much programmed expectation in the listener of ‘verse, chorus, verse’, as… Continue Reading →
Having been around since 2012, Parisian djent practitioners Stömb, seem to have flown under the radar in terms of the scant availability of anything really concrete about the band aside from a handful of reviews and an under-construction website that… Continue Reading →
Billed as post metal, this album promises a wider artistic edge with the addition of the jazz saxophone, violin and cello. The song titles alone suggest melancholy and intrigue … “Others are Gone. I Don’t Care”, “Feet in the Swamp…. Continue Reading →
Comprising of past members of Moanaa (who we have featured here several times and apparently are on hold), Voidsmoker and Forge Of Clouds, this appears to be a new project for the Polish players to collaborate on. With a name… Continue Reading →
What kind of music is hiding beneath this cover? While I am a fan of photography, and while the picture is colourful and quite pleasing to look at, I have to say that the image of a metal carafe, filled… Continue Reading →
Two years ago, I reviewed Left Fallow the debut album of post metal band Ryr from Berlin, Germany. From my perspective, the perspective of having listened to a lot of post rock and post metal, it sounded generic, too much… Continue Reading →
It’s been a few weeks of relative calm and peace in my world, that has been, up until this point, a year of real ups and downs across the board. Reviewing for this esteemed website, Ave Noctum, has, at times,… Continue Reading →
“Can we overcome our nature and make higher minded choices to better humanity and our planet? Or are we lost in a never-ending cycle of shadow?” That is the question pondered by progressive metal outfit Dreadnought from Denver, Colorado, on… 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 →
In this modern world of short attention spans where any Tom, Dick and Harry can sit in their bedrooms and spit out album after album, Kardashev have been quietly plodding away in Arizona USA for around a decade, their sole… Continue Reading →
As the band name and album title might suggest, here we’re heading into the realms of industrial, post-metal sludge and all that surrounds it. Although not a name previously known to me, Lament Cityscape have been around for a while,… Continue Reading →