Lifting the listener’s thoughts and imagination into an expansive and emotional almost visual flight through an ever evolving soundscape broken up into smaller evocative sceneries, Vertebra the new album from Italian band Australasia is one of those absorbing emprises you… Read More ›
Cult Of Luna
The RingMaster Review’s Metal/Rock Best of 2013
In a year of breath-taking rapaciousness and passions igniting sonic aggressiveness from the extensive depths of metal and rock in all its various rabid disguises, it is not easy to select the best albums to have eagerly and skilfully savaged… Read More ›
Jesu – Everyday I Get Closer To The Light From Which I Came
Everyday I Get Closer To The Light From Which I Came, the new album from Jesu has been over two years In the making, partly for the passionate intent and adventure explored upon it and equally for the… Read More ›
Another End – Whispers From…
Consisting of four ferocious and caustically impacting rages, Whispers From… the debut EP of French post-metallers Another End leaves the senses challenged and thoughts provoked. It is a corrosive and tempestuous fury merging heavy articulate rhythms with brooding dark atmospheres… Read More ›
Carving Greater Visions: and interview with Carl Whitbread from Lo!
Australian noise violators Lo! made an impressive entrance upon the world two years ago with the release of their startling and riveting debut album Look And Behold, now the return with its successor Monstrorum Historia, a sonic beast of a… Read More ›
Kongh: Sole Creation
Swedish band Kongh undeniably has a strength and intensity as formidable as their name suggests and through their new album Sole Creation, offers forty five minutes of energy sapping, senses elating, and passion igniting creativity which is just breath-taking. Consisting… Read More ›
Cult Of Luna: Vertikal
Cult Of Luna has always been a band which has challenged and stretched thoughts, senses, and rock music itself but with their new album Vertikal, the Swedish post metallers have explored and aurally sculpted their finest hour to… Read More ›
Khoma: All Erodes
Consisting of previously unreleased songs written between 2002 and 2012, many tracks which did not make the final cuts of previous albums, All Erodes from Swedish band Khoma is surprisingly strong. It is probably fair to say that with many… Read More ›
Abraham – The Serpent, The Prophet & The Whore
Bringing probably the most caustic and violent experience you are likely to be exposed to this year, the second album from Swiss metalers Abraham is malevolent beauty. Abrasive, corrosive, and at times verging on physically unbearable for sure, but at… Read More ›