Bloodstock Open Air 2015: Sunday Preview
On Sunday the SOPHIE stage is closed by the legendary Onslaught and Godflesh and the mainstage...
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by Mark Steele | Oct 11, 2014 | Album Reviews, Music | 0 |
Generally, USA is not well known for black metal bands – unless you’re one of the...
Read Moreby Patrick Thompson | May 21, 2014 | Album Reviews, Music | 0 |
I’d like to share a little story that makes me chuckle, especially every time an Agalloch...
Read Moreby Myron Schmidt | Dec 18, 2013 | Album Reviews, Music | 0 |
Pacific northwest trio Uzala have laid sonic waste to your ears in the form of “Tales of Blood...
Read Moreby Myron Schmidt | Nov 5, 2013 | Album Reviews, Music | 1 |
Here in the US we get some quality stuff out of our Pacific Northwest. This area boasts the likes...
Read Moreby Catherine Morris | Jan 16, 2013 | Album Reviews, Music | 0 |
Formed by Katatonia’s Niklas Sandin, October Tide’s Robin Bergh and A Swarm of The...
Read Moreby Chris McGarel | Oct 21, 2012 | Album Reviews, Music, Unsigned Bands | 0 |
Cormorant’s “Dwellings” was released late 2011 and there’s a fair chance that if you’re reading this you are already familiar with the album or at least with the dent it made on the extreme metal...
Read Moreby Jodi Mullen | Oct 1, 2012 | Album Reviews, Music | 0 |
Though the island nation has thrown out its fair share of accomplished acts over the years, British black metal often gets short shrift when held up against the output of the genre’s Scandinavian homeland. Blutvial, from...
Read Moreby James Conway | Sep 20, 2012 | Album Reviews, Music | 0 |
Nature, and more specifically man’s role within it has long played a crucial part in Heavy Metal. Depending on how you see it, the pine-scented blasting of Wolves in the Throne Room and the snowy desolation of Agalloch either...
Read Moreby Steve Dinsmore | Aug 10, 2012 | EP Reviews, Music | 0 |
The story of ‘Faust’ is well-known and hoary. Goethe’s telling of the tale is probably the most famous and is the source material for Agalloch’s “Faustian Echoes”, their latest piece of PNWUSBM. On its...
Read Moreby Jodi Mullen | Jul 27, 2012 | Album Reviews, Music | 0 |
That the Pacific Northwest of the USA has emerged as a hotbed of avant-garde black metal shouldn’t really come as a surprise to anyone. With its artistically vibrant affluent urban communities set against a backdrop of gloomy...
Read Moreby Chris Tippell | Jul 27, 2012 | Album Reviews, Music | 0 |
Iceland is a place who’s scene is really beginning to make some waves. Last year saw an absolutely splendid release from Sólstafir which won seemingly universal praise. Looking to garner similar appraisal is Reykjavik’s genre...
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