Tag Post Punk
I’m going to stick my neck out here and say that at the moment there is no band that would produce a better or more appealing and engaging melange of melancholia and darkness than Germans Rope Sect. Their outstanding debut… Continue Reading →
Once upon a time there was a London metal scene, smug and self-satisfied with the plethora of bands turning out on a weekly basis at venues such as the Red Eye and The Standard. Then in 1999 along came a… Continue Reading →
Twenty two years. Eleven studio albums. These Japanese loons have had a long and hopefully lucrative career. I have dipped in and out of their eclectic sounds over the years – usually as part of playlists made by mates who were… Continue Reading →
What to do when the ropes of the night keep you firmly chained to the darkness, hindering your every movement, making it impossible to break free? There is only one option. You have to generate your own light. This, in… Continue Reading →
Hearing Fotocrime’s third full-length Heart Of Crime and having no background information on the project’s origin, you would never guess that Ryan Patterson, the singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer behind the project, is from Louisville, Kentucky. On first listen, the… Continue Reading →
Synthwave a genre built on cliches and nostalgia wearing its Hawaiian shirt and raybans with pride as it shifts the gear down in a Testarossa Spider and heads for the sunset. By this stage much of the music loving world have decided whether it is… Continue Reading →
Inferno have been around a good while. This Czech Black Metal ensemble have been casting their spells since 1996 and Paradeigma is their eighth full length release. This album has as its muses a triumvirate of weighty tomes – “The Red Book” by Jung , “Time Reborn” by… Continue Reading →
The Harvest Moon is one of those single person black metal projects, where the subject is the anxiety of living in a complex civilisation. The individual behind this EP upped sticks in 2018 to experience off grid living in Western… Continue Reading →
For my own amusement, I like to play a guessing game. Can I tell the genre of an album, the sound of a band, especially one I’m not familiar with, just by looking at the album cover? More often than… Continue Reading →
I’m really not sure what it is with French bands who play this style of music but reading behind the lines one wonders if members entwined in their line-ups are difficult to work with. Personally, I was incredibly disappointed that… Continue Reading →
Vestindien is the name of Bergen’s last known brothel, the band who took their name from this pleasure palace/oppressive sex slavery den, started as a hardcore band in 2009 and quickly disappeared. Dormant they lay in Norway until recently resurfacing with a new sound… Continue Reading →
I will admit that, despite the logo appearing familiar to me, Belgium’s Emptiness have not entered my auricular notice before. As such the dreamy, dark, post punk meets trip hop compositions of Vide do not surprise me so much as they would fans of the bands earlier Black and Death metal oeuvre …. Continue Reading →