The Ghost Cult album round-up is back in town for your vulgar delectation, with our penultimate selection of 2017 taking you down amongst the silt, with a selection of Sludge, Doom and post-Metal antidotes to any festive cheeriness that may be unsettling your disgusted souls…Continue reading
Post-metal supergroup SUMAC, featuring members of ISIS, Russian Circles, and Baptists, has teamed with Japanese expressionist composer Keiji Haino to create a collaborative release, due for release this winter via the Thrill Jockey label. Dubbed American Dollar Bill – Keep Facing Sideways, You’re Too Hideous To Look At Face On it will drop on February 23rd, 2018. The collective has released an album trailer with a snippet of music you can watch and hear below.Continue reading
Godspeed You Black Emperor promo 2010
Post-rock legends Godspeed You! Black Emperor have booked a US tour for next spring. The band will be touring in support of their amazing recent release Luciferian Towers (Constellation Records). The band is expected to tour heavily in 2018, includign a stop at Roadburn Festival. All US dates are below.Continue reading
In the first of a new feature, Ghost Cult rounds up recent albums that didn’t receive the full review treatment, for your vulgar delectation…Continue reading
There are few things in life as warming and mood-enhancing as a pleasant musical surprise. Be that an unexpected push on in terms of quality of a band, or a change of direction that suits in a way you hadn’t imagined, or a diversification of sound that leads to the producing of an album with a myriad of qualities and highlights that resolutely refuses to be “one defined thing”. Arcane Roots’ sophomore release Melancholia Hymns (Easy Life) is, I’m pleased to report, one of those warming and mood-enhancing pleasures.Continue reading
I, Awake (self-released) is the 5th album from UK-based outfit Updownc. Their first as a three-piece, this self-released monster is easily one of the most satisfying instrumental records of 2017.Continue reading
In a modern-day climate ever shrouded in chaos, with the evils of the world seemingly ever rife and constant and a political landscape that spells doom and hardship; it seems only fitting that Godspeed You! Black Emperor, a band that has always prided and showcased their alternative, anti-capitalist political outlook, return with a new album after a long five years. One of the most adventurous and near abrasive yet beautiful components in post-rock, and a genuinely captivating and forward thinking outfit throughout their existence, a new release is very unlikely to disappoint; and Luciferian Towers (Constellation), a name that eerily matches the recent Grenfell Tower news in London, is a suitably matched soundtrack to today’s ever harrowing timeline.Continue reading
It’s always hard to review bands that never quite fit comfortably into pigeonholes. Canada’s BIG | BRAVE isn’t quite just drone, but that wide murky area we lump together as ‘experimental’.Continue reading
Running at around the 22-minute mark you’d be forgiven for thinking that Debt by Helpless (Holy Roar) would be somewhat light on the ground. You’d be wrong, what’s on offer is in fact incredibly densely packed and utterly intense assault on the senses. From opening track ‘Worth’ until the last track ‘Denied Sale’ there is one of the rawest and intense musical experiences I’ve heard in a long while. Simply put if this album was any longer it could be legitimately dangerous. Continue reading
