Tag Blood Ceremony
As we prepare to bid farewell, whether fondly or not, to another year and look back on the albums released in 2023, one thing is evident; creativity is once again through the roof and the music has not slowed down… Continue Reading →
Hands of Orlac are not an easy band to research. Put the name into a search engine, and what will pop up time and again will be references to the original 1920 book, the precurser of modern body horror, the… Continue Reading →
As folks say these days, “spoiler alert”; before you scan to the score at the bottom of this page I feel absolutely compelled to announce that with ‘The Old Ways Remain’ Canada’s Blood Ceremony has shot straight to the top… Continue Reading →
Well folks, it is time to be 100% open and honest. Lord of Confusion is a band I’d never heard of, but after a wee visit to their page, I was happy to let the editor send me their album… Continue Reading →
The first thing that this album’s arrival had me do was give me a nudge in the direction of what I guess we could refer to as sister act Blood Ceremony and see if there was any news on forthcoming… Continue Reading →
There are some incredibly inventive bands out there that seem to be overlooked by a mass media that laps up a non stop stream of reality show karaoke stars and massively over produced and interchangeable manufactured “idols”; as a visitor… Continue Reading →
Potentially we have here a temple of weirdness and melancholy as we have a combination of Canadian “doom experimentalists” Völur and San Franciscan “neo-classical ambient collective” Amber Asylum. Reading up on the background, the two bands involved recognise the same… Continue Reading →
Firmly rooted in the psychedelic rock tradition of the ‘70s with influences of occult artists like Blood Ceremony and Jex Thoth, Juniper Grave’s debut album “Of Hellions & Harridans” promises us tales of forgotten folklore and prophecies of doom. The… Continue Reading →
I’ve been glad to say I’ve been following Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats (hereafter to be abbreviated to Uncle Acid; no disrespect to The Deadbeats, but it’s quite a long band name) since the early days. I won’t pretend to… Continue Reading →
This interview is one of several which was originally done for a printed publication. Due to production problems it never saw the light of day so is being published here along with several others over the coming week or so…. Continue Reading →
It’s been 3 years, but finally following the success of their debut EP “A Queendom To Come”, Swedish Retro-rockers Spiral Skies present their first full-length album. It was certainly well worth the wait as it is a veritable cornucopia of… Continue Reading →
I don’t know if there’s some cryptic message here that only truly makes sense when you’re seriously stoned, but something feels so fitting about the collaboration between The Wandering Midget and Hands of Orlac as if the two, albeit imaginary… Continue Reading →