Celeste – Assassine(s)
Reviewed: May 2022 Released: 2022, Nuclear Blast Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kat Knite In 2005, the people of Lyon, France watched the emergence of a […]
sludge metal
Cult Of Luna – The Long Road North
Reviewed: April 2022 Released: 2022, Metal Blade Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Lee Carter Widely-celebrated for the pioneering, or at least peddling, of the post-metal genre, […]
Messa – Close
Reviewed: March 2022 Released: 2022, Svart Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes Doom aficionados, look no further for your nearest available fix: Italy’s Messa have […]
A Metal-Rules Exclusive Premiere of Nothing is Real – Transmissions of the Unearthly
Message From the Artist: “These completely improvised sessions recorded live with guest drummer Jeremy Lauria over the course of two days resulted in transmissions of […]
Malevolence – Antithetical
Reviewed: September 2021 Released: 2021, Firecum Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Lee Carter It’s an old argument, but we revisit it here: is there much point in […]
In the Company of Serpents – Lux
Reviewed: September 2021 Released: 2021, Petrichor (original release: 2020) Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes In the Company of Serpents’ fourth full-length was initially a self-release […]
Boozewa – Deb
Reviewed: August 2021 Released: 2021, self-released Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes Deb is a two-song single from up-and-coming US doom merchants Boozewa. Despite only consisting […]
Switchblade Jesus – Death Hymns
Reviewed: July 2021 Released: 2021, Hybrid Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes Death Hymns, the sophomore album of Texans Switchblade Jesus (cool name points +1), […]
Vokonis – Odyssey
Reviewed: April 2021 Released: 2021, The Sign Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Lee Carter There’s somewhat of an expectation with modern progressive metal music that it needs […]
Age of Woe – Envenom
Reviewed: March 2021 Released: 2021, Lifeforce Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Age of Woe, hailing from Sweden’s death metal capital, Gothenburg, have released their […]
Insomnium + Conjurer @ Islington Assembly Hall, London
Insomnium + Conjurer @ Islington Assembly Hall, London 19th January 2020 Review by Demitri Levantis Photos by Dovaldė Gaidelionytė
Ether Coven – Everything Is Temporary Except Suffering
Ether Coven – Everything is Temporary Except Suffering Reviewed: January 2020 Released: 2020, Century Media Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz I’m admittedly pretty stoked about […]
Dawn Ray’d + Burning Vow + Wound @ The Black Heart, London
Dawn Ray’d + Burning Vow + Wound @ The Black Heart, London 23 October 2019 Review by Demitri Levantis Photos by Paweł Dziepak
MNRVA – Black Sky
Reviewed: October 2019 Released: 2019 – Self Released Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Beandog Black Sky is a tricky record to review. If you’re into the sort […]
Fister – Decade of Depression
Fister – Decade of Depression Reviewed: October, 2019 Released: 2019, Listenable Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz To celebrate 10 years of codeine induced musical […]
