Tag Solstice
On the face of it, this one sounds right up my street and possible other people’s. Finnish trio Šamane specialise “dark halls of cold alternative rock, grieving tones and mesmeric soundscapes”. “Solstice” is their third album release. The minimalist deep… Continue Reading →
I honestly did not believe that this was going to ever happen. The rumours of a new album have been around for a long time. Mainstay and bassist Lord Pyre has seemingly pulled off the impossible and got a stable… Continue Reading →
The choice of an opening track is always, always a statement of intent. Once you’ve got past atmospheric or brief instrumental guff that some bands put out there, the first proper track that you get is the benchmark and standard… Continue Reading →
Sometimes life would be so much easier if things were just put into simple pigeon holes, a statement that applies to all aspects of life, let alone music, and its assorted subgenres. Maybe there was a long lost halycon past… Continue Reading →
It’s been a while since I have had the pleasure of committing to the ether, my thoughts, feelings and hyperbolic cliches with the world regarding some lovely new music. It’s always a pleasure never a chore as we see in… Continue Reading →
Covid –19 caused a lot of frustration for musicians. Stuck in lock down, unable to tour to promote recent releases idle hands were often put to the devil’s work. For Oslo’s Superlynx, having recorded Electric Temple their third full length in Summer 2020 they had some… Continue Reading →
Germany’s Wheel made quite an impression on me in the last couple of years, their tape “Live at the Hammer of Doom 2013” was pretty special, and their last release was I think my first lockdown purchase, along with a… Continue Reading →
It’s always fun to discover a new artist and be among the first to do so. Partly because it makes you feel like a part of that bands journey, but also because it means you can be that annoying ‘I… Continue Reading →
Atlantean Kodex. There are times when listening to this album that I forgot I was listening to a band; the concept that this was ‘simply’ a band seemed inadequate to contain what I was hearing. But of course that would… Continue Reading →
Over five years ago I wrote these words on this very site “Capilla Ardiente (Burning Chapel) hail from Chile, play doom, and readily admit to being inspired by those far more European veterans Candlemass” Well, now in 2019, both Capilla… Continue Reading →
With an outstanding new album on the shelves and in the ether, US heavy metal heroes and veterans Twisted Tower Dire offered the opportunity of a little swap of questions and answers courtesy of guitarist Dave Boyd. And, you know,… Continue Reading →
From their demo day’s Gatekeeper from Canada have been a touch special. They are one of those groups who may be labelled as a particular sub-genre of metal, but travel well between high standards of a fair few descriptions. In… Continue Reading →