Atmosphere can make or break any media; from an album, to a video game, to a haunted house, what creates the worth and enjoyment of the experience is its atmosphere. In music, especially metal, atmosphere can be an enormous part of the equation. Masterpieces like Agalloch’s The Mantle and Neurosis’s…
And we’re back! It’s taken us time to get everything re-ignited after the New Year break, mainly because 2015 started off on such a high note. News was coming in left and right and we need to breathe a bit before jumping back in into all our regular columns. We’ll…
Following a massive year of touring with the likes of Psycroptic, Ne Obliviscaris, and Beyond Creation, Hadal Maw have recently made the trek back to Brisbane to play three shows with locals Eternal Rest, Kyzer Soze, and Sydney’s Daemon Pyre (not pictured).Easily my favourite ocean-themed band, Hadal Maw’s unmatched ferocity…
Oakland, California may not be your first guess when you listen to the bleak, crushing majesty on To Sail Black Waters, but the Bay Area, famous for it’s thrash metal scene, is the unlikely hometown of psychedelic doom band Secrets of The Sky. Effortlessly fusing doom, black metal and post…
The second single from Steven Wilson’s upcoming concept album, Hand.Cannot.Erase. was released this week, to mixed reception. The track, entitled ‘Perfect Life’ certainly comes as a departure from the style exhibited on Wilson’s 2013 release, The Raven That Refused To Sing in that it forgoes complexity to a degree in…
It’s happening: the long awaited album from Enslaved, In Time, will be gracing our ears very soon. Our review will be posted soon as well but for now, you can get your first taste of the album with ‘Thurisaz Dreaming’, as the band have released a lyric video for it. Head on over…
While he may be known best for his heavy and often viral covers of pop songs, Baltimore’s Drewsif Stalin has been slowly but surely cooking up a new LP entitled …Comes To An End, whose release date has yet to be revealed. After the release of the group’s awesome music…
By now, there’s really no need for this introduction. I’ve talked to you about Dorthia Cottrell numerous times, as we near the release of her solo album. Just in case you missed the earlier episodes because you’re bad at things: Cottrell has one of the most powerful voices around and the…
Youthful instrumental quartet CHON have just announced that their debut album Grow will be released on March 24th via Sumerian Records, with a new song and pre-orders landing on February 13th. Check out the track list for the album after the jump. Track List: 01. Drift – 0:36 02. Story – 3:51 03.…