FESTIVAL REVIEW: ArcTanGent Festival 2023 Live at Fernhill Farm


 

ArcTanGent Festival, a yearly outdoor four-day fixture at Fernhill Farm near Bristol, attracts a devoted following to its niche yet eclectic lineups of artists who generally have an association with post-rock, progressive metal, or experimental rock. It’s “sort of” a metal festival, but the range of acts it showcases steers towards the more left-field and eccentric end of heavy music and at times stretches beyond what could reasonably even be labelled as “rock”.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Burial Clouds – Last Days Of A Dying World 


 

Since their previously solitary release, Portland, Oregon doom metaller’s Burial Clouds have undergone a significant change into an almost entirely new entity. Once entirely an instrumental outfit, the band have since added vocalist Michael Malarkey to their ranks; and with that have added extra dimensions to their sound as shown on debut full-length Last Days Of A Dying World (Church Road Records). 

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