Tag Pelagic Records
Ah. A precious night arrives as here we have the absolute legendary entity that is Lustmord arriving to prove that only true vision and genius can do dark ambient so well. Brian Williams, the Welsh maestro behind this name, returns… Continue Reading →
Sitting at my place of work for a change and rather than staring at the flora and fauna and phalanxes of ants and battalions of birds in my glorified shed at the bottom of my garden, I am in the… Continue Reading →
LLNN are a band whose growth in popularity has been equally as explosive as their signature sound. Encompassing all the best bits of hardcore, post rock and industrial, these innovative Danes won over crowds at Roadburn three years ago, while… Continue Reading →
Since this is my first encounter with the French band Crown, I checked the Encyclopaedia Metallum for a bit of background data. Usually, the metal archives are a good, reliable and updated source of information. This time, however, the genre… Continue Reading →
On paper, Boston, MA. originated band Lesser Grow with this their second full length album following on from 2018’s Ruined, should absolute tick all the boxes I have, for falling absolute head over heels in love with every riff, snare… Continue Reading →
I feel somewhat of a fraud starting to type these words out and I’ll explain why. As a self-confirmed fan of bands such as Jesu, Mogwai, Thursday, ISIS the band and all of the other bands that make up that… Continue Reading →
French Cinematographic metal? I feel like I should be wearing a black polo neck and smoking a Gitanes. This quartet hail from Montpellier not the back streets of Paris and have been crafting their blend of prog, extreme metal and soundtrack… Continue Reading →
Parisians, Lost In Kiev, return with this their third full length effort that see’s the band step off their well-trodden path of long form epic stanzas of alt/math rock mini operas and segue into shorter more direct songs. It feels… Continue Reading →
Herod are a Swiss four piece delivering their second album after enduring line-up changes in the five years since debut “They Were None”. An ominous industrial-tinged intro gives way to the Cult-Of-NeurISIS-isms© of “Forked Tongue”, a track which sets the… Continue Reading →
Post-rock is dead. There, I’ve said it. The genre has been creatively bleeding out for years now with repetition after repetition and a total lack of new and creative ideas, making one release sound much like every other. However, when… Continue Reading →