The melodies and darkness on Gild The Lily, is quite a moment of realisation and not a single bad track the band put forth for 2026.

There’s still some of that old sound, tense steel-strung acoustica and extended spoken word passages, but it’s nestled among a forest of hulking post-metal riffs, drone metal and doom, a landscape bereft of light where old gods still lurk and accept their offerings.

Dewa is bound and ready to show how much he’s come a long way for 46 years. There’s not a single bad track on Praguenayama.

It certainly deserves to be heard and hopefully will find a home with Metal Church fans old and new.

The Matador accomplish a tremendous feat of taking the familiar sounds of post-metal and amplifying them to exciting places.

A combination of these three musicians, prove to me they can take their levelling approach with mind-blowing beauty and spectacular walks of life.

This is, perhaps, Gnod at their gentlest, but they’ve not mellowed out.

Dank, atmospheric, gritty and gruesome, it’s the soundtrack to a 70’s seedy horror movie gone wrong

By using the combination of acoustic (‘regular’) instrumentation and electronics Jarboe is attempting to make a connection between all that is visible, obvious and invisible, mystic in the natural world.

This is not passive, you need to engage if you want the good stuff, you’ve got to meet it somewhere. In this album’s case, that’s out in the woods.

Asymmetries is a perfect flex of post contemplation and metal might in a way unique to the UK scene.

There’s so much chemistry the quartet have with each other on this live recording for those two evening shows PAKT have brought forth in the Great White North.

What can I say? Transcend into Oblivion is the album that you need in your metal collection straightaway.

Seretan & Thayer were able to make a seemingly complicated concept sound as easy and natural as their “machine in the garden” should sound. Their sunbeam sounds quite natural indeed.

Taken as a whole, My Days of 58 is a truly fine Callahan album, and I would not hesitate to call it one of the best of his career.