Majestic progressive cult metallers Ulver has booked their first ever show in the USA for next spring. They will make their live debut in the US at Irving Plaza on March 21, 2019, in New York City. Tickets go on sale Friday (10/5) at 10 AM Eastern with an Invisible Oranges presale starting Thursday (10/4) at 10 AM Eastern. More dates seem likely since it’s expensive to travel to the US for an exclusive show. The band is still supporting 2017s widely acclaimed album The Assassination of Julus Ceaser (House Of Mythology). They also released a surprise EP and headlined Roadburn Festival 2017. Ghost Cult has long been Ulver champions through their many eras: kvlt black metal, blackened death metal, progressive rock, post-punk, post-rock, and more. We can’t wait to see what the future holds with new music in 2019. Continue reading
Future Usses is a project featuring members of Intronaut and Bereft and they’ve clearly been putting a lot of thought into their debut, The Existential Haunting (Pelagic). Five years in the making, this is an album which is crafted and defined, but it’s not an album that the casual listener will find rewarding.
The haunting Goddess that is Emma Ruth Rundle just doesn’t know when to stop. Since releasing an EP as a founder member of The Nocturnes in 2008, she has released a product every year with Post-Rockers Red Sparowes and under her own guises. Oft mentioned in glowing terms alongside such powerful performers as PJ Harvey, Tori Amos and Lana Del Rey, On Dark Horses (Sargent House) is the LA chanteuse’s fourth album under her own name, and is again filled with deep, shuddering emotion.
As a part of the early djent movement of bedroom projects that also birthed the likes of TesseracT, the multinational Skyharbor, despite gaining a decent critical reception, almost feel like the forgotten sons in comparison to many of their peers. Two excellent albums in Blinding White Noise and Guiding Lights (both Basick) saw a particularly innovative approach within that sphere, with increasing progressive influences throughout, yet didn’t see them quite reach the heights of the likes of the aforementioned TesseracT or Monuments. 
2018 has, so far, been the year of the Holy Roar, and their collective of alternative takes on challenging and artistic music has seen the label rack up a string of successes with a variety of bands with some very different sounds, all united by a desire to create evocative and provocative music. Sam Jarvis, guitarist of UK post-rock innovators Talons spoke to Ghost Cult to cover all things ‘We All Know’, the band’s third album overall, and first for Holy Roar…