If 2021’s Serpent & Spirit rightly sent ripples through the post metal world, then the sophomore album from London trio Urne should shake the very foundations. It’s a deeply personal release, acutely focused on experiences that frontman Joe Nally has shouldered in recent times. There’s little to cheer here. A reflection on the march of … Continue reading Album Review: Urne – A Feast on Sorrow
Author: Paul
2021’s debut by Brazilian’s Crypta was sufficiently good for me to buy it on vinyl. Now, whether it was the pandemic which allowed me to have enough loose change to shell out, or the enchanting way that four ladies, two formerly of Nervosa, could strip the paint off the living room walls with their bruising … Continue reading Album Review: Crypta – Shades of Sorrow
Having reviewed their debut release Anatomy of a Loss and the much-improved 2018 follow up Wolves and the Hideous White and been impressed by their 2021 Bloodstock Open Air appearance, this was an album that has been long anticipated. Five years since that sophomore release is a long-time, but when you write crushingly heavy death/doom … Continue reading Album Review: The Crawling – All of This for Nothing
Crashing riffs that fall like giant breakers in the height of the storm, thick, sludgy parts that are almost too congealed to wade through, and soaring vocals that elevate to the heavens. This is After the Fall by Texans Thunder Horse. Comprising eight tracks that are surprisingly compact in duration, the third album by the … Continue reading Album Review: Thunder Horse – After the Fall
If you like your metal rooted in the classic style of Maiden, Helloween, Gamma Ray etc, then it is almost a given that you’ll love the debut album by Tailgunner. Ten songs of anthemic metal that switches from traditional to speed in an instant, combined with soaring clean vocals and dual guitar harmonies, Guns for … Continue reading Album Review: Tailgunner – Guns for Hire
2021’s Hell Unleashed didn’t impress me on the first few plays. Today, it sits more comfortably in the Evile catalogue, and having seen the band play songs from it live on several occasions, (Bloodstock, Damnation, Cardiff), they certainly worked in the live arena. It was the first album to feature Ol Drake on vocals, something … Continue reading Album Review: Evile – The Unknown