Hamferð: ‘Men Guðs hond er sterk’ Review
In some of the most remote and unforgiving parts of the world, there are still musical gems to uncover. This is true of Hamferð, one of around ten bands hailing from the Faroe Islands,...
Author: Anthony Hildebrand
Weston Super Maim: ‘See You Tomorrow Baby’ Review
The best music out there manages to strike a chord emotionally, whether that’s through sadness or anger. Sometimes, it’s good to let loose. Sometimes, it feels good to climb into a little bit of...
Nick Johnston: ‘Child of Bliss’ Review
Pinpointing the soul of a guitarist can be a greatly difficult task. Canadian guitarist Nick Johnston wears his openly: through the years he’s managed to pinpoint a sense of purpose in his playing and...
Borknagar: ‘Fall’ Review
What does it mean to be several decades into a career and still be releasing arguably your best material? Best ask Borknagar, the Norwegian progressive black metal band that never seem to stop topping...
Chapel of Disease: ‘Echoes of Light’ Review
Any rock historian (and metal by extension) would tell you that its roots trace back to blues, folk and country music. Nostalgia for that era is a great thing and so many bands try...
Ihsahn: ‘Ihsahn’ Review
Norway’s black metal scene is one of contrast. Since the 1990s, it has been a constant vantage point for some of the most brutal and unforgiving music to be inserted into earholes – with...
Wandering Oak: ‘Resilience’ Review
Sometimes an album comes out of nowhere and just floors you – very much the case for Rochester-based Wandering Oak, with their sophomore album Resilience having recently dropped. Resilience was not on my radar...
Slift: ‘Ilion’ Review
The hero’s journey is a key aspect of millions of great pieces of media going back far beyond the printing press (there are probably some shockingly good cave painting narratives out there). The ancient...
Closure in Moscow: ‘Soft Hell’ Review
Time is a scary and painfully quantifiable unit of measurement and in recent years, few bands made this more apparent than Closure in Moscow. A little background: their beginnings in the eclectic post-hardcore space...
Holy Fawn and The Callous Daoboys at Oslo in Hackney
In the run up to the incredibly stacked ArcTangent festival, many bands playing decided to settle on our shores early and play a few shows for those saps unlucky enough to miss the party...
