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Secret Gardens, Crests of Darkness and Goblin Metal.

11/06/2015

No filler. A roundup from the bleak plains of heavy metal, featuring Nekrogoblikon, Ecnephias, Crest of Darknessm Secrets of the Sky and Angra...

Looking good and rocking hard [LTNT]

10/06/2015

Diverse personalities they may be, but musically they have honed what they do to a level of classical precision....

Rock now, Rock the Night! Loitered Lens [Europe]

07/06/2015

Joey Tempest banging out some ultra weird shapes...

A saxophone short, but mesmerising nonetheless [Knifeworld]

06/06/2015

Psychedelic grooves, Zappa-style horn arrangements, intertwining guitar and bassoon lines, and layered vocal harmonies....

Something of a mixed bag: Food Chain [London Afrobeat Collective]

05/06/2015

I can hear this on an sunny afternoon whilst the crowd are still working out the kinks from the night before, but headlining material it ain’t....

Sonically cosmic, if not slightly kosmische [Amon Tobin]

05/06/2015

Tobin modestly describes the release as a “small personal project”, but conceptually at least, it's a major release....

‘Meat is just like dog food to me’ [The Picturebooks]

03/06/2015

We had a bassist but he tried to Yoko Ono us....

Showing the depth of the songbook at Bury Met [Mostly Autumn]

01/06/2015

Shaking up the setlist in such a radical way was a bold move, but a very welcome one...

Defiantly and Successfully Indulgent : Xerrox vol.3 [ALVA NOTO]

30/05/2015

If the previous volumes were more concerned with technique and texture, this volume's emphasis on emotion is clear from the start....

Loitered Lens : Theory of a Deadman

29/05/2015

So much rock awesomeness on the stage, it almost spilled outside...

Dark moods and Militaristic Airs : Мир [Bedlam]

26/05/2015

There's a residual warmth in the superbly-produced bass but this can only be the prelude to or aftermath of some bleak scenario....

Loitered Lens : Beasts [Beasts]

24/05/2015

Beasts soften the discordant minor melodies and double bass drum pedals of doom with catchy guitar riffs and shoegazer style vocals....

Craving acceptance [Dir En Grey]

21/05/2015

'I think that it’s really up to the listeners to determine what we are, not us.' ...

Make Better Music 75 : The Producer

20/05/2015

It is a rare gift indeed to successfully carry your own music throughout the entire creation process....

Grunged Up and Greasy, Beast of Eden [Beasts]

19/05/2015

Beasts have the discordant minor melodies and double bass drum pedals of doom softened by catchy guitar riffs and shoegazer style vocals....

Loitered Lens : Marc Almond

18/05/2015

Joined by guitarist Neal X, formerly of Sigue Sigue Sputnik, it was as if the past 30 years had just been a bad dream' Marc Almond...

Parting the Veil of Sylvanian Fantasy [Crystal Bright & The Silver Hands]

17/05/2015

Bright's voice, if a touch brittle, is faultless in pitch, soaring in keening arabesques through what must (surely) be the entire range of anguish...

Undiminished Diva [Marc Almond]

15/05/2015

His ability to produce the heartbroken diva performance is undiminished....

A Solid day of Metal Misbehaviour : Impericon Festival

14/05/2015

If you aren’t familiar with Manchester Academy, it’s like a music-y Hogwarts… every time you visit, it’s sprouted a few new performance spaces and the butterbeer’s gone up another six quid....

Jam in the middle of Wasp Season. Live Metal [Skyforger]

12/05/2015

Meanwhile, the other venue in the side street had a light tank parked outside it. This was the metaller equivalent of a large open jar of jam in the middle of Wasp Season....

If Blastbeats could Kill : [Throes]

11/05/2015

Throes have crafted this album with meticulous attention to texture, a welcome relief in a genre that can make the error of equating creativity with technical wizardry. ...

I’m not an arrogant jerk maniac (Chibi The Birthday Massacre)

10/05/2015

It’s important to me to know that people can come up and talk to me and know that I’m not an arrogant jerk maniac....

Blues Pills Photo: Carl Byron Batson. Not to be reproduced without express prior permission.

Taking the Tablets, Popping the Blues [Blues Pills]

08/05/2015

Psychedelic riffs chimed out and drifted over the O2 like clouds of incense then metamorphasised into groovy guitar solos...

Far below the Sturgeon threshold [Eschaton]

07/05/2015

There is evidence of some technical instrumental ability here and there, but they're failing to do anything worthwhile with those chops....

Atmospherics and Optigans, Soundscapes and Steinways [Jacco Gardner]

05/05/2015

From swirling layered atmospherics to stripped-down minimalism and back again, it all hangs together well as a coherent whole...

Pre Election Metal Meanderings [Arcturus] [Skyforger] [Plage]

04/05/2015

What more could you want from a black metal album? Arson? Murder? Goat-shagging???...

Describing Das Unheimliche. Interview: Davide Carbone/Honzo [Honzo]

03/05/2015

There is plenty of temporary music out there right now. The format does not matter but the intentions of the producers do. ...

Don’t Blame Bonamassa : Tours, Tickets and Touts

02/05/2015

PR and marketing people know full well how to get their talent to the right audience but while much of this can be done for free, more often than not someone, somewhere, sometime will have to sign a...