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Derelict Sermon – Callousness And Defiance
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No Comments
Experimental music, I’m all for it. It triggers the imagination, pushes the creative envelope and it keeps musical genres alive and relevant. Coming from a hard rock and metal background I don’t have anything against bands like Motorhead, AC/DC and Manowar (well, being a parody...
Horn of the Rhino – Grengus
Posted on May 18, 2012 | No Comments
Horn of the Rhino are a Spanish band that recently released their album “Grengus” on Doomentia records. You would think that since the band is on a label called “Doomentia” that their album would be doom and in a way it is. But, labeling the...
Lorraine Rath And Aesop Dekker From Worm Ouroboros Talk To ThisIsNotAScene
Posted on May 17, 2012 | No Comments
2012 proved to be a fruitful year so far within the more underground experimental metal subgenres. Ides Of Gemini, Incoming Celebral Overdrive and Ufomammut delivered their finest works to date. Worm Ouroboros did very much the same with their latest album, entitled “Come The Thaw”....
Kong – What It Seems Is What You Get
Posted on May 17, 2012 | No Comments
Kong is a band that refuses to be pigeonholed; just as you think you’ve got what they are about, they change. Often the changes are quite small – a slightly different rhythm or addition of a sound effect or sample – but the compound effect...
Terraformer Talks To ThisIsNotAScene
Posted on May 15, 2012 | No Comments
Ian Girle was pretty impressed with “The Sea Shaper”, the latest music venture by Belgian post metal outfit Terraformer. Reason enough for him to have a nice chat with these gents about nautical themes, the creative process within the band and their collective dislike to...
Obake – Obake
Posted on May 15, 2012 | No Comments
RareNoise Records appears to be mining a rich seam of music at the moment. The label behind the new Metallic Taste Of Blood album also includes Obake on its roster. As well as sharing a record label, the two bands also share personnel, guitarist Eraldo...
Lahmia – Into The Abyss
Posted on May 14, 2012 | No Comments
Hailing from Roma, Italy, Lahmia aren’t exactly the hardest band to pinpoint the influences of. Listing their influences as Swedish and American death metal as well as black metal and doom, you can definitely pick up on the Swedish melodic death metal band worship in...
Bereft – Leichenhaus
Posted on May 8, 2012 | No Comments
Since my review of Lord Mantis earlier this year I have been getting into doom/sludge metal more and more. I have managed to sample some excellent stuff from bands like Acid Witch and Electric Wizard to Grand Magus, which has broadened my music taste from...
Pierre Stam Of In Mourning Talks To ThisIsNotAScene
Posted on May 5, 2012 | No Comments
Bruce Smeath was pretty impressed with “The Weight Of Oceans”, the latest album by progressive death/doom ensemble In Mourning. He had a friendly chat with bassist Pierre Stam about the new album, personal influences and making a living as musician in these dire times… How...
Anhedonist – Netherwards
Posted on May 1, 2012 | No Comments
Anhedonist is a four piece doom metal band hailing from the West Coast of the states, Seattle to be exact. In the US, Seattle is not particularly noted for its metal scene and is way too often associated with grunge style of music, which is...
Hour of 13 – 333
Posted on April 30, 2012 | No Comments
Hour of 13 is a name that has been bubbling within the doom metal underground for a few years now. Formed around 2006 by Chad Davis and Phil Swanson, the North Carolina doomsters have released two previous albums, “Hour Of 13” and “The Ritualist”, both...
High On Fire – De Vermis Mysteriis
Posted on April 28, 2012 | No Comments
Opening with a high-octane drum roll before thrusting forward with some truly furious thrash metal, Oakland’s High on Fire begin their sixth album laying all of their cards on the table. The song in question – the pounding ‘Serums of Liao’ – doesn’t let up...
Valkiria – Here The Day Comes
Posted on April 27, 2012 | No Comments
It is often the case that an unassuming release, one of a band that you are not familiar with prior to hearing, and one that has seemingly received very little attention can be one that is a joyous discovery. This has certainly been the case...
Biipiigwan – Nibaak EP
Posted on April 25, 2012 | No Comments
When it comes to “Nibaak”, the latest release from Canadian sludge merchants Biipiigwan, there’s a little more going on in the production department than their previous “God’s Hooks” album. Doomier than that release, this three-track EP has a slightly more polished feel to the production...
The 11th Hour – Lacrima Mortis
Posted on April 25, 2012 | No Comments
Former Gorefest drummer Ed Warby is one of the most celebrated metal musicians of the Netherlands. He is featured on many Ayreon and Star One albums. Nowadays he keeps himself busy with Hail Of Bullets and The 11th Hour, his own doom metal project/band. “Lacrima...
Biipiigwan – God’s Hooks
Posted on April 24, 2012 | No Comments
With a name that means ‘they sleep’ in the Native American language of Ojibwe, it would appear that Canada’s Biipiigwan are looking a little deeper than the usual ‘Buckets-of-Doom’-type names than most other sludge bands throw out. Streamlining their sludge sound in a hardcore style,...
Blacklisters – BLKLSTRS
Posted on April 20, 2012 | No Comments
Brash, noisy, and sonically blistering, Blacklisters full-length release ‘BLKLSTRS’ is reminiscent of so many of the great hardcore bands of the late 80’s and early 90’s, the post-rock genius of Fugazi and peers, the thrashy Millennials like KONG and Hawk Eyes (a personal favorite!). While...
Royal Talons – Royal Talons
Posted on April 19, 2012 | 3 Comments
With their self-titled debut, Royal Talons unleash a slow, heavy and sustained metal assault. The band – which includes members of Skeleton Of God and Turambar – is influenced by the likes of Electric Wizard (think “Dopethrone”), Earth and Black Sabbath. Call it doom, call...
Paradise Lost – Tragic Idol
Posted on April 18, 2012 | No Comments
You can be sure of one thing when a new Paradise Lost album is released – that pretty much every review will spend the first paragraph detailing how the band alienated the majority of their fanbase with the “One Second” and “Host” albums, and have then...
Conan – Monnos
Posted on April 18, 2012 | No Comments
Having formed as a two piece back in 2006 and somewhere along the way adding a third, this british trio has spewed forth one album and one split EP thus far. As they gallop into 2012 on their respective war horses with hammers swinging they...