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  • New Music Friday

    A release on cassette give new impetus to the fantastic debut from 2025 from Finland by Azzagrat – Kaikuja Kuilusta

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  • New Music Friday

    Today, six years after I saw them live I listen to the debut from Cairiss – Wilderness and find a glorious, exhilarating world.

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  • A little retrospective and thoughts on my first festival in 2 years and first gig in about 18 months. The attempt to gently re-immerse myself in a hugely important part of my life. Fortress Festival 2026 – Walking The Liminal Space

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  • New Music Friday

    Today we have the complete joy of the new Mortiis album. Dark electro-goth, synthwav and cinemtatic soundscapes coalsce into a truly haunting work: Mortiis – Ghosts Of Europa

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  • New Music Friday

    Today we look back on a tragic family history. The Tolkien themed, evocative and raw black metal of Grimdor – Stone Of The Hapless – Walking The Liminal Space

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  • Welcome Back Wednesday

    Something I could not ignore: A band who mean so much to me returned and not simply that; they dropped just… just something extraordinary. Neurosis – An Undying Love For A Burning World

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  • Way Back Wednesday

    To 2018, the pre-plague years, and the doomed folk of The Devil’s Trade – What Happened To the Little Blind Crow (Golden Antenna 2018)

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  • Way Back Wednesday

    Today back a couple of years to one of those rare arrivals for me at Ave Noctum Shadow Knell – Shadow Knell (Relapse 2024)

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  • Way Back Wednesday

    One of my forays into the unfamiliar seas of prog today with Lonely Robot – The Big Dream (Inside Out Music 2017)

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  • Mausoleum Monday

    Today a journey from a distant land, setting foot upon ancient soil, we follow the soul searching Elyvilon – The Shrouded Isle

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