Sometimes, an album inspires me to write in a fashion that mirrors its artistic endeavour, and avant guitar wrangler Stian Westerhus’s last album, Amputation, was one such. Words such as “fraught”, “twitching”, “maelstrom” and “melancholic” abound, and that’s just the…
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The Bloody Mallard are a new band for me. The tags on their Bandcamp page indicate, in various permutations, that the music will be heavy, psychedelic and progressive. The band’s website states that “musical influences can be heard from bands…
View More The Bloody Mallard – Realm
Anyone who has followed The Enid in recent years will know that they have endured a particularly turbulent time, even for a band with their chequered history. They were completely transformed by the arrival of Joe Payne and enjoyed great…
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A while ago, I reviewed the final album from Alex’s Hand, Hungarian Spa. I wrote it less as a review, more as a eulogy, and it flowed out from me on the day the break-up of that band was announced…
View More Tryon – Wasted Time EP
October 6th 1967 was the day that the tenth episode, called Mirror Mirror, of the original Star Trek series was aired, where a transporter malfunction caused a duplicate but now evil crew to emanate from the mistake. And here’s the…
View More Pattern-Seeking Animals – Prehensile Tales
In these uncertain times, there’s nothing like listening to calming music – and despite the dynamics of Haunt the Woods’ debut album, Opaque, even at its most boisterous, it remains remarkably calm. Don’t get me wrong, there are searing solos…
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This album was released in June 2019 (November 2018 in Norway), and usually I would consider it way past the sell-by date for a review… but this is such a HUGE album I just had to wax lyrical about it!…
View More Møster! – States Of Minds
Inno are being feted as an Italian metal supergroup, with their debut album receiving quite some hype. I came to Inno via Novembre, and I wonder if my impressions of this album are potentially more favourable than others, for while…
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They really should be Welsh, but it turns out that Dai Kaht were born in the Finnish city of Kajaani in 2013. Kajaani is, roughly, bang in the middle of Finland, a mystical land of many lakes, and largely unknown…
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The debut release from Ulls crashes into being with a glorious sound reminiscent of King Crimson’s 21st Century Man, but warmer and less edgy. In fact, what King Crimson might have sounded were they a rock progressivo Italiano band. If…
View More Ulls – Anoia s’apodera