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Review: Pyramids ‘Pythagoras’

8th August 20258th August 2025 Rob Walsh Blackgaze, Dream Pop, Electronic, Pyramids, The Flenser

Pythagoras was a Greek mathematician and philosopher that many modern scholars are still stumped on several millennia later, unsure of

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Review: Alcest ‘Les Chants De L’Aurore’

19th July 202419th July 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden Alcest, Blackgaze, Nuclear Blast Records

As I sit down to write this review (later than I had intended) I find myself buoyed by a sense

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Review: Chrome Waves ‘Lost Horizon – Live 1/5/2024’

27th June 202427th June 2024 Reza Mills Blackgaze, Chrome Waves, Disorder Recordings, Post-Metal, Shoegaze

Chrome Waves, who have been pretty prolific over the past five or so years, deliver their first ever live album,

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Review: Botanist ‘Paleobotany’

11th June 202411th June 2024 Will J Black Metal, Blackgaze, Botanist, Prophecy Productions

Of all the words used to describe Botanist, the one that might do it best is ‘unconventional’. Their early offerings

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Review: Ba’al ‘Soft Eyes’ EP

14th May 202414th May 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden Ba'al, Blackgaze, Post-Metal, Ripcord Records

I first came across Ba’al, the moody, blackened post-metal crew from Sheffield via the APF Records sampler The First Four

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Review: Glassing ‘From the Other Side Of The Mirror’

10th May 202410th May 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden Blackgaze, Glassing, Pelagic Records, Post-Metal

The notion of liminal space is certainly a fitting metaphor for the disenfranchisement that rock music has tapped into as

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Review: Suldusk ‘Anthesis’

8th March 20248th March 2024 Lee Beamish Blackgaze, Napalm Records, Neo Folk, Suldusk

Back before the world shut down, I became aware of the artist Suldusk. Compelled to purchase the debut album Lunar

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Review: Infant Island ‘Obsidian Wreath’

18th January 202418th January 2024 Richard Murray Blackgaze, Infant Island, Secret Voice Records

Infant Island make blackgaze music, one of my favorite genres, and one thing I have big opinions about. One of

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Review: Altars Of The Moon ‘The Colossus And The Widow’

16th November 202316th November 2023 Reza Mills Altars Of The Moon, Blackgaze, Disorder Recordings, Doomgaze

It’s been quiet on the Disorder Recordings front of late and the last thing I recall reviewing from them was

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Review: Hexvessel ‘Polar Veil’

14th September 202314th September 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Blackgaze, Folk, Hexvessel, Svart Records

Hailing from the dark forest, progressive folk rockers Hexvessel have been on a path which their founder Mat McNerney describes

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Breaths/DIMWIND 'Seasons'
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Premiere: Breaths/DIMWIND ‘Seasons’ – Releases This Friday, 15th April, Via Trepanation Recordings

13th April 202226th May 2022 Lee Edwards Blackgaze, Breaths, DIMWIND, Post-Metal, Trepanation Recordings

If instrumental post-metal meets post-black metal and blackgaze that has its finger on the pulse at the destruction of the

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Emerging once again from the Bristolian mire, the amphibious overlords known as Froglord return to deliver another dose of thick,

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Premiere: –(16)– ‘Forgeries Vol 1, 1972–1984’ – New Album Drops Tomorrow, 1st May

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