Wolves In The Throne Room – Thrice Woven
Whether we like to dwell on it too much or not, hype is always going to be a sticking point with any band, and when you consider the enormous cult following a band like Wolves In The Throne Room have...
View ArticleBell Witch – Mirror Reaper
One track spanning a massive 83 minutes is going to be an intimidating listen no matter which artist spawned it, but when that track is as grief-stricken, slow-building, and earth-shatteringly heavy as...
View ArticleNomasta – House of the Tiger King
House of the Tiger King (Self-Released) is a record that very much wears its influences on its sleeve. Born out of Leeds’ underground DIY scene, the members of Nomasta have put in the legwork over the...
View ArticleThe Body And Full Of Hell – Ascending A Mountain Of Heavy Light
The Body and Full Of Hell are no strangers to collaborations or to each other, as both acts have teamed up in the past together and individually with some of the undergrounds best bands (Thou, Code...
View ArticleThe Faceless – In Becoming a Ghost
A five-year gap between records and a litany of line-up changes would slow down the momentum of any band, but Michael Keene has always been driven to make The Faceless work, even if it means taking on...
View ArticleTribulation – Down Below
2015 was a big year for Tribulation, and The Children of the Night (Century Media) quickly garnered them a lot of media attention for delicately weaving together Classic Rock, Prog and psychedelia, to...
View ArticleAgrimonia – Awaken
When your primary musical focus consists of playing in At The Gates, Skitsystem, or Martyrdöd, any and all accompanying projects are going to be subjected to some level of scrutiny. “Yeah, but it’s not...
View ArticleVLMV – Stranded, Not Lost
Pete Lambrou, VLMV’s songwriter, has previously described the outfit as “the background music to an ambient explosion in space”, and for the most part that is apt, but there’s also something incredibly...
View ArticleOceans of Slumber – The Banished Heart
Much darker in tone than its ethereal predecessor (both Century Media), The Banished Heart is no less beautiful in its execution. Where Winter would often soar, this record looks inward and deals much...
View ArticleDrudkh – м часто сниться капіж (They Often See Dreams About Spring)
Never giving interviews and never playing live shows is certainly a good way to give your band a certain mystique. It may seem pretentious and it does mean the art you create loses another dimension by...
View ArticlePalm Reader – Braille
A wise man once said “Misery fucking loves me…”, and if you love misery, you should love Palm Reader. Three records in, the band are still producing the same miserablist Hardcore fans have come to...
View ArticleMøl – Jord
The only certainties in this life are death, taxes and Holy Roar not releasing bad records. With both Conjurer and Rolo Tomassi already blazing a trail this year, Holy Roar’s next world-beater comes to...
View ArticleGod Is An Astronaut – Epitaph
It has never felt that God Is An Astronaut have gotten nearly as much love as they deserve. County Wicklow’s favourite sons have been a mainstay of the prog and post-rock scene for the better part of...
View ArticleBody Void – I Live Inside A Burning House
Oscar Wilde believed that life imitates art far more than art imitates life, but like most great art, music is at its most affecting when it draws from personal turmoil and the internal struggles we...
View ArticleWitchsorrow – Hexenhammer
Ever since Cathedral decided to hang up their Doom-encrusted boots, the UK has been dying for someone to fill the void with the same level of otherworldly mysticism and crushing heaviness. Obviously,...
View ArticleAbstracter – Cinereous Incarnate
Neil Gaiman once wrote in Sandman: Season of Mists that “hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go” and with Cinereous Incarnate (I, Voidhanger et al), Abstracter aim to ensure...
View ArticleÁrstíðir – Nivalis
In their native language of Icelandic, Árstíðir means “seasons”, and like the ever-changing seasons, the band’s musical stylings have never sat firmly in one singular camp. They’ve experimented with...
View ArticleSecret Cutter – Quantum Eraser
Regular readers will be fully aware of the high level of praise thrown Holy Roar’s way throughout 2018 so far, and with good reason, because their roster continues to produce some of this year’s most...
View ArticleThe Lion’s Daughter – Future Cult
The Lion’s Daughter’s previous output, 2016’s 'Existence Is Horror' (Season of Mist), was an overlooked gem that was suitably aggressive, but its underlying creepiness gave us hints that the Missouri...
View ArticleSam Jarvis of Talons Talks New Album –“We All Know”
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...
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