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This album with outstanding artwork is a “dark space epic of a person escaping into the most distant constellation of their mind with the help of narcotics”. Although this is Mathilde’s first album, the band has been around for eight… Continue Reading →
The very title of this album points to melancholy. The suggestion here was something dark and light, and maybe deep, and hints in style of bands like Swallow the Sun, Katatonia and Novembre. My reaction when I saw mention of… Continue Reading →
If you trawl the Ave Noctum archives then you will come across my review of this bands second album ‘Black Drapes For Tomorrow’ which I absolutely adored and still do as this unique Italian metal band often defies categorisation even… Continue Reading →
This sounded fascinating on paper and appeared to be an album that would transport me away from the living room to a different place and time entirely. That is just what was needed over an extended bank holiday when the… Continue Reading →
8 years since their last album and 6 since ‘The Gothic Tapes’, this shall be their third album. It’s also a concept album with the subject matter being the 10-year winter that started in 535, including the bubonic plague that… Continue Reading →
I reviewed both “Songs from the North” (2015) and “When a Shadow is Forced into the Light” (2019) by Swallow the Sun, and what impressed me was the control of mood and depth. “Moonflowers” is the band’s eighth full release,… Continue Reading →
When I first put on this album, the weather had just turned, gone were the last days of summer, and autumn could be truly felt and seen in the miserable skies and wet days, making this forlorn and bleak album… Continue Reading →
I went to check out the credentials of this band but unfortunately my initial general search led me to a lot of advice about post death legal documents and settling disputes. The reality of this nicely packaged album couldn’t be… Continue Reading →
Part of the Israeli metal scene since 2002 when formed as Moonskin by founding member Yishai Sweartz it is no surprise to hear that Tomorrow’s Rain has had in past line-up members of Salem and Orphaned Land through their doors…. Continue Reading →
The master of mastering Jens Bogren, who has been involved with just about anybody who’s anybody is the melodic metal world and more, must have been on overtime for this substantial offering from the US melodic and death/doom metal band… Continue Reading →
Well 2020 is getting off to a really strange start. While Dark Matter appears to be a band from Tehran, Iran, the album contains 8 tracks featuring 15 artists from 10 countries along with members Aria Moghaddam on guitar, vocals… Continue Reading →
Swallow the Sun’s previous album release “Songs from the North” (2015) was a triple album which captured different atmospheres and shades, cementing the Finnish band’s fine reputation. Based on that one, “When A Shadow is Forced Into The Light” as… Continue Reading →