Napalm Death bassist Shane Embury steps out on his own with Bridge To Resolution, his debut solo album out June 5th via Dissonance Productions on CD and vinyl. Visual artist Costin Chioreanu created the official video for the title track. Watch it now. Continue reading
The final seal of the end times has been broken to reveal the herald of the Apocalypse, and that herald has been revealed as An Undying Love For a Burning World (Neurot Records), the surprise new album from sludge icons Neurosis. This band disappeared into an uneasy sunset following some mental health issues by founding member Scott Kelly. It was an odd goodbye that left fair-weather fans not even speaking the band’s name. However, in any serious sludge metal circles, not even the return of Acid Bath could make one forget that the sludge genre was left with a Neurosis sized hole, since they defined the genre in the Neurosis. Continue reading
Though Ville Valo has often been seen as the sole proprietor of love metal as a genre, primarily because very few can match his vampiric romanticism and poetry, Atlas arises as a formidable and remarkable successor. Infusing love metal with arcane echoes and bestial screams, they delivers a sensually brutal epic in their new record, Sunder (Odyssey Music). Continue reading