Tis the season… for Black Metal! To celebrate, Ghost Cult runs the rule over several of this Winter’s coldest releases… Continue reading
Tag Archives: Post Rock
Esben And The Witch – Nowhere
Four years ago, at Cult of Luna’s heralded Beyond The Redshift festival, I saw a band that went toe-to-toe with the headline acts and matched their beauty, elegance, and musical depth. Ten years into their career and with their fourth album Nowhere (Season of Mist) about to grace our ears, we find Esben And The Witch at their darkest.Continue reading
Voices From The Fuselage – Odyssey: The Founder Of Dreams
Even amongst a thriving but crowded Tech / Progressive Metal scene, Northampton (UK)’s Voices From The Fuselage have the potential and the quality to stand out. With a label re-release in 2016 and the presence of former TesseracT vocalist Ashe O’Hara at the forefront, their previous album Odyssey: Destroyer Of Worlds provided a benchmark album for UK Progressive Metal with a rich and layered sound combined with towering melodies and near pop sensibilities, showing them to have real crossover appeal.Continue reading
Metal Assault Records Signs Dawn Fades, New Album Due In Early 2019
Los Angeles area Post-Metal band Dawn Fades is the second signing to new Metal label Metal Assault Records. The band is looking to lock in their remarkable live prowess on to an album, and they will do just that, with self-titled Dawn Fades full-length album is set for release on limited edition vinyl and all digital platforms, on February 8th, 2019. Watch a teaser below with a promise of what’s to come. Continue reading
Toska – Fire By The Silos
Instrumental and/or Progressive Metal are incredibly tricky beasts to pull off well. Aside from the obvious chops required to make music without vocals that retain attention and engages in its own right, but to pull it off with showing heart and emotion too is an entirely different matter. Formed in 2015 by three prominent UK-based, virtuoso musicians, Toska turned heads with their debut EP Ode To The Author, and based on the technical prowess on this new full-length Fire By The Silos (both self-released), and it is easy to see why.Continue reading
Leonov – Wake
Much debate surrounds the basis of Norwegian quintet Leonov – are they Doom? Are they post-Rock?? Do they eat much fårikål??? Yawn…what’s certain is that the band’s sound is heavy, melodic and steeped in melancholy, as sophomore album Wake (Fysisk Format) bears out.Continue reading
The Ocean Shares Visualizer “Cambrian II: Eternal Recurrence”
The Ocean approaches the release of their new masterwork Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic (Pelagic Records), releasing on November 2nd. The band just released a new single and an accompanying visualiser for ‘Cambrian II: Eternal Recurrence’ in which the band worked with director Craig Murray, using makeup and hand-molded masks, transforms vocalist Loic Rossetti into a Cambrian-age lichen-creature, weaving molds of the band into a rocky prehistoric landscape, taking hours to meticulously shoot the video frame-by-frame.Continue reading
Pijn – Loss
Several years ago I reviewed a local gig containing a set by Manchester-based post-Hardcore band Knifecrimes, and enjoyed a chat with their fresh-faced East Anglian guitarist. These days Joe Clayton still classes Manchester as home but is now a sought-after producer and mastermind of the multi-faceted, enigmatic Pijn, whose first album proper Loss (Holy Roar) is a pulsing ball of creativity.Continue reading
Set And Setting- Tabula Rasa
Instrumental Rock, as a branch of post-Metal, can be such a tricky genre to pull off well. Many times it is about a balance that bands can miss. Too often bands miss that poignancy and enchanting quality that such material often needs and instead prove mechanical and disengaging in nature. Over three prior albums, Floridian act Set And Setting have showcased both a technical prowess in their sound and that difficult ingredient, heart, whilst continuously adapting their sound; a case which is proven once again on their latest effort, Tabula Rasa (Pelagic).Continue reading
A Storm Of Light – Anthroscene
Josh Graham has long been a leading light in underground art and music. Highly influential as a musician, graphic designer, and live show art designer, when you are able to walk in this many wolds and do so with authority, you are bound to make as many champions as you are detractors. Josh’s talent is not up for debate, however, as his body of work already is admirable and lasting. With A Storm of Light, most of these releases are noteworthy, but none of the previous albums may make an impact the way the new album Anthroscene (Consouling Sounds/Translation Loss) will.Continue reading