“We had a ton of brilliant bands we wanted to put on and thought, why not try to do it like this?!” – Anthony of Raw Power Festival

“The Beyond the Redshift all-dayer, curated by Cult of Luna and split across three venues in Kentish Town, was billed as an ‘audio-visual experience built around a concept.’” by Owen Coggins

Nyogtha have a slightly unnerving way of stopping time with such a distinctive and unchanging sound. By Owen Coggins

The four bands are united by theme and commitment to relentlessly overpowering black metal, making this an invigorating collection of some of Quebec’s finest. Highly recommended. – By Owen Coggins

Ignore the last excursion into floaty weirdness then, and settle instead into the grand landscapes of the album’s masterful opening 40 minutes of classic atmospheric Quebecois black metal. – By Owen Coggins

“In the lowest of low fidelity, Les Rallizes Denudes ask: fidelity to what?” – Owen Coggins on the mysterious musical forms of the cult Japanese legends…

Contented but exhausted, reverent, resonant, this record has a paradoxically relaxing but uneasy otherworldly quality to it. – By Owen Coggins

An unruly, insurrectionary short collection of energetic blackened grooves. – By Owen Coggins

From Syndrome’s finely drawn, thoughtful but widescreen projections, to God Seed’s return to old school values, to Jesu’s fiercely controlled metallic epics, to whatever grand scheme Cult of Luna are plotting, Beyond the Redshift promises a sensory overload, absorption into the heaviest of atmospheres. By Owen Coggins

“there are still irrepressible glimpses of Skinny Puppy’s incredible gift for evoking mutated, radioactive, weird worlds…” – by Owen Coggins

This album is, like the striking artwork, a demented scrawl on some posh wallpaper, deeper and more arresting than it seems at first glance. By Owen Coggins

“ridiculously sublime, sublimely ridiculous” – Owen Coggins on Acid Mothers Temple’s finest hour…

A dense and rewarding debut by The Sustained Low ‘C’ of Richard Strauss’ “Also Sprach Zarathustra”, aka TSLCORSASZ. – By Owen Coggins

There’s an enormous amount to explore here over the record’s six tracks, and while occasionally the weight of ideas can make certain periods seem a little overcrowded, there’s clearly even more potential in this exciting and ambitious band. – By Owen Coggins