Twenty years into their evolution, Crippled Black Phoenix have never been a band content with standing still, and with Sceaduhelm, they've created perhaps their most severe and emotionally exposed statement yet. This is an album that doesn't shout for attention; it demands you lean in close and listen to what lingers after the noise fades. … Continue reading Album Review: Crippled Black Phoenix – Sceaduhelm
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Album Review: Skindred – You Got This
I wanted to jump on this album because I am not Skindred's biggest fan, and I've never really listened to them except when I've caught them live. What better reason to check out the new slim-sized 3-member setup as my own introduction? There are eleven tracks on the album and three have already been released as … Continue reading Album Review: Skindred – You Got This
Album Review: Love Rarely – Pain Travels
Sometimes you've got your headphones on listening to an album and you get lost in what you're doing. The album finishes and helpfully (or not) the algorithm has a few songs lined up for you to listen to next. Most of the time, they're not really what you're looking for or what you're into. Sometimes … Continue reading Album Review: Love Rarely – Pain Travels
Album Review: Sanguis Mortem – Merry Doomsday
We featured Sanguis Mortem as Headline Act a couple of months ago in the runup to the release of Merry Doomsday, and after much nagging from one of the band's mum... here is our review! We're sorry for the delay, Mrs Sanguis-Mortem! As highlighted in our previous feature, the band themselves are a bunch of rapscallions … Continue reading Album Review: Sanguis Mortem – Merry Doomsday
Album Review: Corrosion Of Conformity – Good God / Baad Man
Crossover kings, Southern-fried sludge merchants, groove-metal godfathers - Corrosion of Conformity have been called all of it and more across four decades of doing things entirely on their own terms. Good God / Baad Man is not so much a return as it is a reckoning. There are certainties in life: birth, death, and that … Continue reading Album Review: Corrosion Of Conformity – Good God / Baad Man
Album Review: Void of Light – Asymmetries
Following two EPs and on the back of a growing live presence across the UK comes Glasgow six-piece Void of Light's debut full-length album Asymmetries. Monolithic in its scale, atmospheric in its build, and cathartic in its nature, the album is a post-metal force that draws from a wide-reaching pool of influences ranging from ambient … Continue reading Album Review: Void of Light – Asymmetries