(((O))) Tag: Review
Like Conan but wish it had a soundtrack based on doom and psych tinged instrumental post-metal? Well Sleepbomb have just the thing for you.
Supersonic is not in the business of making its promoters wealthy, it’s about the life-enriching power of art and music. It gets ever more difficult to make events like these happen but they are not going to lay down, once again delivering an amazing weekend, a victory in the face of adversity.
SHOUTING THE ODDS is a solid chunk of Birmingham techno with very little by the way of frills, it’s muscular, rhythmic, machine music.
Actual Bastard brings hopelessness, self doubt, nihilism, psychic dread, social anxiety and all yer best boys over for a bag of cans and a pitch black laugh.
The music is like a willow dipping its boughs in a stream, turning its leaves in the wind like a shoal.
Tenth album from beloved Canadian collective finds them getting even more insular and melancholy than its predecessor.
The Matador accomplish a tremendous feat of taking the familiar sounds of post-metal and amplifying them to exciting places.
Asymmetries is a perfect flex of post contemplation and metal might in a way unique to the UK scene.
A blackened hardcore album of both urgency and atmosphere. Ingenting Forblir fulfils all the promise using angry and hope to make a formidable album.
There is an incredible depth and warmth to the post-gaze on Growth that makes it perfect for every season. It has healed during winter and is going into full blossom as summer hits.
Vivid with life and unease. As always with mclusky there’s biting tunes, dark wit, and terse wisdom.
It will transport you to an alternate headspace, wrapping you in bliss and helping you put aside worries.
The Temple of the King isn’t just an incredible box set, it’s a journey to the myths and wonders of how this band were revolutionary, amazing, and having the balls to bring their story-telling arrangements to fans in its true metallic foundation.
Incredible French atmospheric post-metal troupe Ingrina, complete a trilogy of work in stunning fashion and build walls of sound even higher than before.
Provocative and stimulating, URGH builds on their debut, I’ve seen a way, creating an intoxicating sound world of its own.
One of the hardest working metallic hardcore bands in the UK add to their flawless catalogue with this intensive and immense EP.
Retracing Our Steps represents an incredible chapter combining the wonders and mystery behind The Pineapple Thief’s music.
I feel like I might not be playing it loud enough to get the full impact of the thumping beats but it clearly points to greater things to come.







