Hungarian band Wall of Sleep are back after a 3 year break from recording with a new  full-length album, "When Mountains Roar" and a new lead singer in Cselényi Csaba. After forming in 2002, the band got off to an amazing start with the excellent "Overlook The All EP in 2003, the equally awesome "Slow, But Not Dead" in 2004 and their best album, (i...

15/12/2010

On the surface, this EP by this New York-based band might seem to be a black, death, thrash release but it is more, so much more. Blending doom metal and a progressive rock edge with infectious riffs, melodies into the vicious old-school death, black thrash metal band is a tricky equation but Dimentianon have nailed it and produced one of the very...

15/12/2010

I swear there must be a doom factory in Russia spitting these albums out at random. It is melodic funeral doom, generic and typical of the  Russian doom scene. This one man band is the work of Seredov Nikolay who is indeed very talented with a good feel for creating depressive doom metal music but anyone familiar with funeral doom and the Russian d...

15/12/2010

I must start this review off with an apology, someone told me a long time ago that Denver, Colorado’s Black Sleep of Kali are another so-called post-rock band and that tag along was enough to make me cringe and put this band on the back-burner. What a mistake that was, this band is great and this debut album from them could be classed as "post-rock...

15/12/2010

Hukkunud Hinged which means in English "Perished Souls" was formed in May 2007 after the demise of Tige Vile which played a kind of thrashy punk metal. Two of its band members, Martin and Madis had a burning desire to play the kind of music that had been in their hearts for a long time, slow and heavy Doom-Metal. After a couple of line-up changes,...

17/11/2010

Merging elements of Stoner, Doom & Psychedelic grooves with lyrics about the Earth and mother-nature, female vocals and DIY ethics, Alunah arose from a West Midlands rehearsal room in 2006. The band have played hundreds of gigs nationwide including dates with the likes of Paradise Lost, Trouble, Orange Goblin, Roadsaw, Witchcraft, Nebula, Doomr...

17/11/2010

You can't have too much Phil Swanson in your life, right ? This dude must be on a wonder-drug to keep up with all these bands he is involved with. Currently his résumé consists of (Hour of 13, Vestal Claret, Upwards of Endtime, Briton Rites, Earthlord, Blastmat, Loathe, KYD, Damnation (USA), Lepus, Atlantean Kodex, Nightbitch and this band Seamount...

17/11/2010

Acid Witch are back with their follow-up full length album to 2008's "Witchtanic Hellucinations" album titled "Stoned." In 2008, Acid Witch blew some new life into the scene with their very tongue firmly in the cheek tales of Halloween and Witches. The sound was fresh, incredibly heavy and creepy but most important to most listeners, it was an infe...

17/11/2010

Every once in a while along comes an album that almost can't be reviewed because some albums project a vibe that is going to be completely different to whoever listens to it making individual thoughts or opinions irrelevant and unique only to the person doing the reviewing. Such is the case with Lesbian's "Stratospheria Cubensis", this is a recordi...

03/11/2010

Electric Wizard are back! Their seventh full-length album for Rise Above Records and this doesn't disappoint at all. It goes without saying that Electric Wizard are legends within the Doom Metal scene as their albums are among the heaviest ever recorded, some say the HEAVIEST. Whenever you get a band like this, recording some of the most classic Do...

03/11/2010

Mountain Throne from Germany came to me from a friend who said "you want to hear some classic metal, check this out". He was right, this is pure classic and pure old-school traditional Heavy Metal, air-guitars and all. I have not heard of the band before hearing this EP titled "Serpent’s Heathland" and I haven't done research on the band either so...

03/11/2010

Rorcal from Switzerland are one of the most obscure bands on the planet and no I didn't have trouble getting the artwork for this album, its just black, really black. The album is available for free download from their official website but is also available as a CD presented in an A6 digifile, including an 8 page color booklet which is hand-assembl...

03/11/2010