It can be hard to pin down what it is exactly that listeners appreciate about bands like Omahara, and harder still to do so without sounding pretentious.
Author: Astral Noize
Thoughts From Beyond: The House Show
When big business comes along and destroys your whole city’s live music scene, house shows become the easiest way to fill the void.
Review: Wren – Auburn Rule
Like the swampy puddle on its cover, Wren’s Auburn Rule is dripping in a thick, inescapable mud of brooding heaviness.
The Nepalese Temple Ball: A Musical Lasagna
Nepalese Temple Ball are one of the most fascinating propositions in doom-mongering UK noise. The south coast four piece’s curious genre-fusion has captured the UK doom scene with the ponderous melodicism of their recorded material […]
Dragged Into Sunlight: Barbaric Momentum
An excerpt from our in-depth interview with Dragged Into Sunlight.
Review: Adrift For Days – A Sleepless Grey
Listening to a good post-metal release is much like taking a long walk in nature or reading a compelling book: cathartic in an entirely non-violent fashion. Whether its black metal’s continuous themes of darkness, sludge […]
Ghold: Crack Shit and Stank
We caught up with Ghold in the aftermath of their UK tour with Bongripper to chat temporary housing, Ritual Productions and blown amps.
Review: Gravetemple – Impassable Fears
Featuring the talents of none other than Mayhem crooner Attila Csihar and Sunn O))) mainman Stephen O Malley, Gravetemple’s latest release Impassable Fears is an engrossing slice of oddity. It’s difficult to put into words exactly […]
Haast’s Eagled: Keep It Wavy
“No boundaries, no masters. Play the riff if it’s right.”
OHHMS: Tarot and The Flat Earth
This piece originally featured in our first issue, which can be purchased in its redux form here In modern doom, there’s a lot for metalheads to love, with huge riffs that hit you like a […]