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Borknagar are unique, no-one sounds quite like them. Musically, vocally, songwriting, arrangement – put them all together and there’s only one band it could be – Borknagar. But their personal blend of Progressive Extreme Metal is no overnight sensation. “Fall”… Continue Reading →
If you are a fan of French band Griffon whose 3rd album ‘De Republica’ is due to drop any day now, boy have you got a treat in store for you even before you get to it. Vocalist Aharon has… Continue Reading →
There are certain areas of history, culture and the world in general that I maintain are criminally underexplored in metal of any flavour: the weird and wonderful world of spiders, the unsettling astrophysics of black holes and other intergalactic terrors,… Continue Reading →
Jord are a Swedish Atmospheric Black Metal band who started out as a one-man project back in 2020, but after two previous albums have expanded into a 3 piece, been picked up by Hammerheart and are really starting to define… Continue Reading →
Hi my name is Matt and I am an idiot. “That is evident from your ramblings on this site Matt but why so this particular time?”. Well gentle reader, when I asked for “Antithesis” the new album from White Void… Continue Reading →
Entering their third decade of existence now, and having released their debut 26 years ago, Funeral’s sixth album is their first with Season of Mist. and while they have had a line-up change since recording the album, I’m going to… Continue Reading →
I missed the “full-blown cosmic and uniquely baroque” “Ex Cathedra” (2020) and indeed the two previous albums by this band. This album now “strives to bring attention to the beauty in the Ugly, the Sad and the Bizarre”. With Creature… Continue Reading →
Of all the wonderful music that 2021 has delivered to our ears when everything else has been far from getting back to normal, to say that Helheim’s eleventh (yes really) album comes with a great deal of anticipation would not… Continue Reading →
I first saw Leprous in 2010 at ProgPower and was impressed by their freshness and originality. In the intervening years, I’ve seen them live a few more times and bought their albums up to “The Congregation” (2015) which I particularly… Continue Reading →
White Ward were one of the bands for whom the pandemic could not have come at a worse moment. Their absorbing last LP Love Exchange Failure, released in the autumn of 2019, fusing lounge jazz with black metal, had left… Continue Reading →
2020 was a difficult year for most people and given the time, musicians in particular had to find their own different ways to deal with it. Many were very active on social media, posting blogs, lockdown videos, acoustic tracks and… Continue Reading →
Apparently, this is Wayfarer’s fourth album, and even from the outset it shows. There’s a steadiness and a confidence that comes from work put in here, and a sense that everyone is on the same page musically for this adventure…. Continue Reading →