Iperyt | Bandcamp | Facebook Six years since the release of No State of Grace, the sonic terrorists in Iperyt return with their third full-length album entitled The Patchwork Gehinnom. The brand new album is scheduled for a 15 December 2 …

Haunt are adept at the sort of choruses that garnered Maiden, Priest and Saxon their respective fans and each of this EP’s four songs have a chorus that outdoes the last.

Unlikely to become a classic, but it adds some hefty meat to a great catalogue of songs.

There are so many layers to each track, each riff; yet also a beguiling simplicity. It’s hard to communicate, and it’s the mark of true artistry – to write creatively but without clutter, to capture a moment.

This is truly a symphony for patience. It won’t hold your hand or soundtrack your yoga studio, and it doesn’t have any patience for your impatience. This is slow and long and methodical and beautiful.

“We can’t change the world from our keyboard, or through Facebook, so we have to get out there and work together. Along the way, we should all challenge our own thinking, and the thinking of others. Music has a part to play in this but, ultimately, it’s all about communication and reflection.”

Let’s remain grateful that he is still, at 69 years of age, recording and touring an admirably challenging catalogue of genre busting material with grace, humour and panache.

Ghold recently released their new album ‘Stoic’ and they are now officially a trio. So enough reason to ask the band about the records that have influenced them the most.

In the wake of the release of Peter Broderick’s new album, looking back at 10 years of work, we thought it would be a good time to probe his influences.

Back at the start of the year, unassuming giants of experimental rock Charles Hayward and Thurston Moore got together to spend a pleasant afternoon improvising a bunch of free flowing noise jams. This LP is the exhilarating result.

URUK is a new musical project from Massimo Pupillo (Zu, Triple Sun) and Thighpaulsandra (Coil, Julian Cope, Spiritualized) come together for a lengthy drone piece that displays both their experience and mastery. ‘I Leave a Silver Trail Through Blackness’ is an immersive debut that patiently carves out its own soundworld.

Almost every Armenian metalhead loves at least one song from System of a Down. For me, they are idols and I think the same goes for many other Armenians.

A stoner-leaning album that even those listeners who don’t fancy stoner rock might give a listen, particularly if psych is their name of the game.

The band have defined themselves beyond the unrelenting heaviness to reveal they can deliver in full force, but also flush out tracks with brilliantly executed misery. This may be my favourite album of theirs thus far, which only leaves the band’s future to eagerly wait for.

I know the whole ska-punk scene is Marmite to a lot of people; but if you are on the side of loving it, then Reel Big Fish are a top live band; and behind the humour, they are a group of really talented musicians, as the brass section solos proved.

Ore, aka Sam Underwood, is a ‘tuba doom’ project originally planned as a gift for his dying father. Given that genre label you might expect a mildly diverting novelty, and with that back story you may be wary of an unbearably heavy listen. Neither factor begins to tell the story contained within ‘Belatedly’.

Ahead of their set at ArcTanGent 2017, I sat down with God Is An Astronaut to chat to them about their 15 years strong career as one of the core bands in the post rock scene. It made for a fascinating and incredibly insightful conversation. E&D: My …

‘All These Ghosts’ is the first single release under the VLMA banner, since they switched from ALMA,  and the first track to be taken from their imminent Stranded Not Lost album, due out in February 2018. Happily for an act which was formed i …

With all the signs of the times it carries, ‘Ghede Chokra’s’ (The Great Session in Hindi), turns out to be exactly that – the great session from the past that needs to be heard.

Jon Boden and the Remnant Kings brought their unique brand of post-apocalyptic folk to the Globe and a pub, in Cardiff. . .

It’s a very good album, from a band who look to have really found themselves. Great music for weird times.