Bearing down upon your being like some looming catastrophe that lingers in the back of your brain, this split takes the shape of an oppressive, recurring nightmare that subconsciously gnaws through your sanity without you even realising.
Author: Tim Harbour
Album Review | Alcest | Spiritual Instinct
Although I have always been a fan of ‘shoe-gaze’ and ‘post’ styles of black metal, Alcest’s recent release leaves me thoroughly wanting.
Album Review | eumourner | TRAKL TRAUMA TRACKS
A cold yet bewitching adventure. Do not expect to come out of it unscathed.
EP Review | Evening Machine | S/T
The layerings of melodic delays, reverbs, and filters blend together into a musical cocktail that is undeniably beautiful and lulls the listener into a dream-like state.
Album Review | Teitanblood | The Baneful Choir
Frenetically visceral, unrelenting, and full of atmosphere.
Album Review | Crypt Sermon | The Ruins of Fading Light
Following in the footsteps of giants.
Album Review | Tool | Fear Inoculum
Tool seems less interested in “pushing the envelope” and more concerned with creating a musical journey.
Album Review | Dö | Astral Death Cult
Welcome to dying.
Album Review | Falls of Rauros | Patterns in Mythology
Patterns in Mythology outlines grand dips and swells, the balance always shifting between light and dark; a maelstrom of dissonance and harmony.
Album Review | Fleshgod Apocalypse | Veleno
What starts off sounding unique ends up melding into a memory of every melodic death metal album I’ve ever heard.
Album Review | GRYLLE | Les Grandes Compagnies
What sets Les Grandes Compagnies apart is its timbre. The sonic quality of the music, its overall texture, is so much more welcoming than the slicing distortion and overpowering drums (and sometimes terrible mixing) that are generally indicative of a traditional black metal album.
Album Review | Advent Varic | Tumulus Part I & II
Advent Varic is the soundscape to catastrophe; gloom, an ever-present and sobering effect.