You must be doing something worthy if you’re a metal band, and your dictatorial country designates you an “extremist group”. This is what happened to Belarus post-black metal collective, Dymna…
Tag: gothic metal
Junius are important enough to have a Wikipedia page, and that tells you the high regard people have for this Bostonian duo. Now on album number four, they seem determined…
‘The magnificent range of colours and disciplined attachment to the muscular guitars of metal have set a high standard for Part 2,’ said Scream Blast Repeat last year of Green…
Italian prog doom quartet, Novembre, have a special agreement with Peaceville Records: no matter how many years away from the scene, you’ll always have a contract with us. People assumed…
Danish death-doom quintet, Empire Drowns, took the long road to their debut album – eleven years to be exact. ‘The quality is not in doubt, but the content is too…
Hooded Menace receive unanimous praise for every album they produce. If you don’t know the Finnish death-doom merchants, that’s understandable. The genre often focuses on the English bands of the…
Chicago metal heroes, Novembers Doom, are legends in the global underground and in mainland Europe. Along with Agalloch, they might be the most un-American metal band to come out of…
Paradise Lost are in an elite club of metal artists alongside Carcass and Sepultura that invented two genres. In their case, gothic metal gathered its seeds from their 1991 Gothic…
Guitarist, Ala’a Swalha, formed one of Jordan’s most promising metal bands in 2009. He’s proud of the 2012 Falling Leaves debut, Mournful Cry of a Dying Sun, and decided to…