music REVIEW: A Pale Horse Named Death – Lay My Soul To Waste
Lay My Soul to Waste is the second album from Brooklyn doom merchants A Pale Horse Named Death. Chris Ward gives it a listen and tries to think positive thoughts…
Lay My Soul to Waste is the second album from Brooklyn doom merchants A Pale Horse Named Death. Chris Ward gives it a listen and tries to think positive thoughts…
Jack Traveller dons his mourning black and attends the funeral of Coventry’s doom pioneers Cathedral, with their farewell album ‘The Last Spire’.
Danny Heaten braves the slings and arrows of incompetent sound engineers to bring you his appraisal of an evening of doom and drone courtesy of Bongripper, Conan, Humanfly and local supports Trudger and Ivory Tusks.
Nursing something of a hangover from the night before, OneMetal’s fearless scribe bravely advances to do battle on the Saturday of Hammerfest.
Danny Heaton and Phil Whitehouse take you through some of the bands they’re looking forward to seeing at ‘Kin Hell Fest 2 at the Templeworks in Leeds, a three-day festival to be held from the 26th to the 28th of April for the wallet-pleasing sum of £35.
Oliver Longden trawls through the darker, danker, more miserable climes of the OneMetal review queue to bring you this round-up of releases by doom metallers A Tree of Signs, Alunah, Clamfight, XII Boar and Pombagira.
Henry Fogarty dives into the gloomy world of Ancient VVisdom, and comes up smiling.
Swedish sludge/doom metal trio Kongh return with latest album ‘Sole Creation’ – Chris McGarel flies a biplane around their head.
Danny Heaton takes a few hits from ‘Mana Yood Sushai’, the fourth full-length by drone-mongers Bong. Will it satisfy his munchies or leave him hungry for more?
Oliver Longden is a hard man to please but 40 minutes of momumentally pretentious Belgian sludge with transcendent religious overtones could be exactly what the doctor ordered. AMENRA’s ‘Mass V’ is subjected to scrutiny within.
Chris Ward chats with bassist Jonah Holm and guitarist Martin Fairbanks of Swedish occult doom/rockers The Graviators about the recording of their most recent album, ‘Evil Deeds’.
Undersmile are a rising force on the UK sludge scene, but can their debut LP satisfy expectations? Danny Heaton finds out. Slowly.
After thirteen albums and almost a quarter of a century, do Paradise Lost have anything left to prove? Kit Rathenar finds out.
Danny Heaton and Jack Traveller spent a day in the Leeds University Union to bring you this in-depth report of the metallic festivities ensconsced within in the form of the 2012 edition of Damnation Festival.
Ryan Neal discovers Lahmia’s Into The Abyss, Italy’s best metal export.
Members of October Tide, Katatonia and A Swarm of the Sun have banded together in the form of metallic post-rockers Aoria – Phil Whitehouse takes a listen to their debut album, ‘The Constant’.
Henry Fogarty gets stuck into ‘Apocryphon’, the fourth full-length album by Texan retro/trad-metallers The Sword.
Acid Witch probably hold the record for most witch references on a single album. Witchtanic Hellucinations may be knee-deep in puns, but is their blend of death metal and stoner doom anything more than a novelty? Oliver Longden finds out.
Phil Whitehouse stocks up on anti-depressants before tackling ‘A Frail Becoming’ – the fifth full-length album from North Carolina / California-based melodic death/doom metallers Daylight Dies.
OneMetal’s Jack Traveller ventures deep into the Mountains of Doom to seek audience with Riff Wizard Dan and Forest Dwelling Fuzz Creature Leigh of doomanauts Groan.