Tag Archives: music
Arð – Untouched By Fire – Album Review
Artist: Arð Album Title: Untouched By Fire Label: Prophecy Productions Date of Release: 26 April 2024 It seems to me rather serendipitous to be listening to this album and writing my thoughts about it as I sit on a train from East Anglia to Edinburgh, steadily ploughing up the east coast of the UK through Continue Reading »
Deicide – Banished By Sin – Album Review
Artist: Deicide Album Title: Banished By Sin Label: Reigning Phoenix Music Date of Release: 26 April 2024 I’ve never been a fan of Deicide. I’ll happily state that right at the outset. And it’s not for any other reason that I have always thought of their music as the kind of death metal that sounds Continue Reading »
Vanden Plas – The Empyrean Equation Of The Long Lost Things – Album Review
Artist: Vanden Plas Album Title: The Empyrean Equation Of The Long Lost Things Label: Frontiers Music Date of Release: 19 April 2024 Vanden Plas and I go way back. They were one of the first group of bands that I discovered as my love of progressive metal emerged in the very early noughties. In fact, Continue Reading »
Dvne – Voidkind – Album Review
Artist: Dvne Album Title: Voidkind Label: Metal Blade Records Date of Release: 19 April 2024 For post-metal to register high on my radar, it has to be at the absolute pinnacle of the genre. Either that, or it has to really push my buttons to the point where I simply cannot ignore it. This could Continue Reading »
My Dying Bride – A Mortal Binding – Album Review
Artist: My Dying Bride Album Title: A Mortal Binding Label: Nuclear Blast Date of Release: 19 April 2024 When a band can boast no fewer than fourteen albums over a career spanning nearly 35 years, it’s inevitable that different fans will have different favourites. It will, no doubt, depend on your age, your musical journey Continue Reading »
Loch Vostok – Opus Ferox II – Mark Of The Beast – Album Review
Artist: Loch Vostok Album Title: Opus Ferox II – Mark Of The Beast Label: ViciSolum Productions Date of Release: 19 April 2024 As a fan of progressive metal, the name Loch Vostok is not unknown to me. However, despite dipping in and out of their music over the course of their career, their output never Continue Reading »
Cistvaen – At Light’s Demise – Album Review
Artist: Cistvaen Album Title: At Light’s Demise Label: Independent Release Date of Release: 5 April 2024 I’m a little late again to the party but such has been the impact that this record has had on me, it seemed ridiculous, bordering on the insane, not to write a review of it. My hope is that Continue Reading »
Blaze Of Perdition – Upharsin – Album Review
Artist: Blaze Of Perdition Album Title: Upharsin Label: Metal Blade Records Date of Release: 19 April 2024 I remember being pretty impressed with the last record that Poland’s Blaze Of Perdition released, 2020’s ‘The Harrowing Of Hearts’. As a result, I am pleased to be in the possession of the latest release from the band Continue Reading »
Selbst – Despondency Chord Progressions – Album Review
Artist: Selbst Album Title: Despondency Chord Progressions Label: Debemur Morti Productions Date of Release: 19 April 2024 I do believe that this is a first for me, in that I find myself reviewing a musical entity from Venezuela. It’s not the first country to spring to mind when thinking about heavy music, especially the kind Continue Reading »
Replicant – Infinite Mortality – Album Review
Artist: Replicant Album Title: Infinite Mortality Label: Transcending Obscurity Date of Release: 12 April 2024 2024 definitely feels like it’s the year that my tastes get even heavier and more extreme. I tend to think of myself as a progressive metal fan first and foremost, but so far, there have only been precious few releases Continue Reading »