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Tomorrow’s Rain – Ovdan (AOP Records)

‘Hollow’ (2020) was an impressive debut album for Israeli band Tomorrow’s Rain who had previously been around as Moonskin. Within the realms of atmospheric doom, they had strong song-craft but got quite a bit of attention due to a large… Continue Reading →

Paradise Lost, On Thorns I Lay – Principal Club Theater, Thessaloniki 9.12.2023

I was eagerly anticipating this concert, not only because it marked the 20th anniversary of “Icon,” but mostly because I would finally see Paradise Lost after years of listening to them. I’ve seen Nick Holmes before as the frontman of… Continue Reading →

The Grief – Crucible (Self-Released)

It was back in 2020 that I reviewed a pair of great E.P.s from Cork, Ireland’s “The Grief”, at which point I gave them a collected 8.5 out of 10. Well, it’s three years later and the lads from the… Continue Reading →

Tar Pond – Petrol (Prophecy Productions)

With a band name and an album title such as the above this was never gonna be light and fluffy or fast and spiky.  The fact that I have drank too much coffee this morning certainly puts me at odds with this dirty… Continue Reading →

Tumulation – Haunted Funeral Creations (Hammerheart Records)

If you read my review of the Dead And Dripping album recently then you’ve come to the right place for more gutturally effective death metal as this act also hails from the USA. As a three piece all the band… Continue Reading →

Phlebotomized – Clouds Of Confusion (Hammerheart Records)

For reasons unbeknownst to yours truly this long established and revered Dutch death metal band has completely passed me barring the odd glimpse into their melodic doom death I’ve heard in passing. Often seen as one of the founding bands… Continue Reading →

Runemagick – Beyond the Cenotaph of Mankind (Hammerheart)

A new Runemagick album is always a source of great pleasure for me. One of the most prolific, yet still obscure bands since the turn of the century, the masters of dread atmosphere have been plying their wares since the… Continue Reading →

Host – IX (Nuclear Blast)

While they have have perhaps not reached the household name status of Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden, Paradise Lost are one of the most influential and important metal bands to hail from our shores, and in many ways can be held… Continue Reading →

Elderseer – Drown in the Shallowness (Meuse Music)

Five years on from their debut offering, a demo entitled ‘Bind Us As One’, UK Melodic Death/Doom quartet Elderseer have finally returned to us, and with a debut full length offering in tow no less. Entitled ‘Drowned in the Shallowness’,… Continue Reading →

Tribunal – The Weight Of Remembrance (20 Buck Spin)

Canadian doom duo Tribunal hail from Vancouver and consist of the two talented multi-instrumentalists Soren Mourne and Etienne Flinn. Both Mourne and Flinn handle vocal duties, blending melancholic and haunting cleans with blackened rasps and deathly inspired screams whilst a… Continue Reading →

Timor Et Tremor – Realm Of Ashes (Trollzorn)

Ah, another ‘band I’ve been aware of but not really engaged with’ time. Fear and Trembling (so says Google) and apparently pagan black metal. My experience of Trollzorn bands is that they dont tend to sign yer actual bestial bm… Continue Reading →

Strigoi – Viscera (Season of Mist)

When I was younger, I would obsessively follow the projects of artists I enjoyed, as I figured that liking something they were doing in one band meant I’d enjoy the output of another band in which they were involved. For… Continue Reading →

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