In this episode #207, Nik, Keefy, and guest host Don De Leaumont of Southeast of Heaven and Talking The Talk With Don review Foreigner’s third album, “Head Games!”Continue reading
Category Archives: Cognitive Dissonance – Revolting Roundup
5 MINUTE REVIEW: Opeth – “The Last Will and Testament”
FESTIVAL REVIEW: ArcTangent Festival 2024 Part 2 – Live at Various Venues
Friday:
On Friday’s early afternoon, Sans Froid arrive at the Elephant stage to dish out their mournful and sombre art rock.Continue reading
FESTIVAL REVIEW: ArcTangent Festival 2024 Part 1 Live at Various Venues
2024 marks ArcTanGent’s 10th anniversary. Taking place across five stages at Fernhill Farm near Bristol, the festival specialises in progressive, largely heavy music. It is metal-orientated, but the festival’s remit also extends to other styles including indie and electronic music. ATG 2024 sees over 130 bands and artists performing over three “main” days plus a warm-up day.Continue reading
Cognitive Dissonance V
In which Richie HR dives into the maelstrom of abstract Metal, Noise and Ambient, and comes back up with something awful…Continue reading
Cognitive Dissonance IV
Cryo Chamber Collaborations Round Up (Late Summer 2017)
One of the interesting things about getting into different styles of music than what you’re normally used to is adjusting to the different opportunities afforded by them. Collaborative albums exist in Rock and Metal, but by the very nature of those styles tend to fall into the “Dave Necrobastard singing with Cryptic Gardener” format. Electronic music, by contrast, lends itself more readily to genuine collaboration, with one or more artists able to lend their own sounds and production to a track, creating something both new and familiar. Cryo Chamber Records, leaders in the Dark Ambient field, have been experimenting with themed collaborations for several years now, and in the Summer of 2017 have brought three such albums of a particularly high quality.Continue reading
Cognitive Dissonance III
Ghost Cult’s dive beneath the crust into the dirty, disgusting and sub-underground is back, as Richie HR returns with a round-up most fetid for your vulgar delectation…Continue reading
Cognitive Dissonance – Revolting Roundup #1
In the first of an irregular feature for people with irregular music tastes, Ghost Cult plunges into the chaotic cyclone of abstract, dissonant and frankly horrible sub-underground Metal, Noise and Ambient.Continue reading