music REVIEW: Cathedral – The Last Spire
Jack Traveller dons his mourning black and attends the funeral of Coventry’s doom pioneers Cathedral, with their farewell album ‘The Last Spire’.
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music REVIEW: Jess and The Ancient Ones – Astral Sabbat
Zoinks, Scoob. It’s the new EP from Jess and The Ancient Ones. Does this much talked about release live up to the hype, or is this the first sign of occult rock jumping the shark? Jack Traveller enters the haunted mansion to investigate.
music REVIEW: Ancient VVisdom – Deathlike
Henry Fogarty dives into the gloomy world of Ancient VVisdom, and comes up smiling.
music REVIEW: Nolentia – May the Hand That Holds the Match That Will Set This World on Fire be Blessed Above All
Henry Fogarty delivers his verdict on ‘May the Hand That Holds the Match That Will Set This World on Fire be Blessed Above All’, the exhaustingly-titled second full-length album by French grindcore lunatics Nolentia.
music LIVE REVIEW: Orange Goblin, Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, The Earls of Mars & Eyes of the Raven @ The Slade Rooms, Wolverhampton – 06/02/2013
Chris Ward stops watching trashy movies for a bit and travels to Wolverhampton to catch doom merchants Orange Goblin and their numerous support bands.
music REVIEW: Cult Of Luna – Vertikal
Cult Of Luna are past masters of doomy experimentation. Does Vertikal continue their upward trajectory, or is it in fact all downhill from here? Rob McAuslan finds out.
music REVIEW: AMENRA – Mass V
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.
music REVIEW: Void of Sleep – Tales Between Reality & Madness
Chris Ward hasn’t had quite enough doom metal this year so he turns his attention towards Italian metallers Void of Sleep and their debut album Tales Between Reality & Madness.
music REVIEW: Neurosis – Honor Found In Decay
Will the tenth album from Neurosis be their biggest yet? Rob McAuslan lets us know what he reckons.
music REVIEW: Darsombra – Climax Community
Oliver Longden traverses the ambient climes of ambient/drone act Darsombra’s latest release, ‘Climax Community’.
music REVIEW: Dragged into Sunlight – Widowmaker
Sludge/doom/death metallers Dragged Into Sunlight’s debut record managed the Herculean feat of earning Oliver Longden’s approval – can the follow-up repeat the trick? Find out within.
music REVIEW: Groan – The Divine Right of Kings
Cheeky doom n’ roll scamps Groan have come to petition OneMetal’s Grandmaster of Grimness with new album ‘The Divine Right of Kings’. Jack Traveller judges it from his Mighty Throne of Judgement.
music REVIEW: Pentagram – Last Rites
‘Last Rites’ is doom pioneers Pentagram’s first album to feature guitarist Victor Griffin since 1994, so Chris Ward tunes in to see if the magic is still there.
music REVIEW: Winters – Berlin Occult Bureau
Doom and indie rock aren’t the world’s most obvious bedfellows, but Aberdeen doom trio Winters have managed to breed the two and produce a most intriguing offspring. Is it the runt of the litter, however, or will it be the one that everybody will want?
music REVIEW: Hour of 13 – 333
OneMetal’s Jack Traveller performs the ritual to summon forth the new album from trad doomsters Hour of 13.
music REVIEW: Lazarus Blackstar – Hymns for the Cursed
Doom scamps Lazarus Blackstar have just released their long-awaited third album, the first with new vocalist Mikhell. Dani wipes the excited grin off her face and prepares to get bleak.
music REVIEW: The Graviators – Evil Deeds
With 2012 being the year that many predict to be the end of the world, it’s nice to know that there’s plenty of doom to go around. Chris Ward checks out ‘Evil Deeds’, the latest release from Swedish occult rockers The Graviators.
music REVIEW: Coven – Worship New Gods (Reissue)
Chris Ward gets in on the act 25 years after the event with the re-release of doom veterans Coven’s legendary debut album, ‘Worship New Gods’.
music REVIEW: Witchcraft – Legend
It’s been a while, but Swedish gloom mongers Witchcraft are back with new members and a new label for their new album Legend. Jack Traveller investigates
music REVIEW: Sleep – Dopesmoker (Reissue)
Sleep’s masterwork gets the reissue treatment by way of Southern Lord Records. Rob McAuslan catches himself wondering if giving up the weed was such a good idea after all…