If there’s one sub-genre with plenty of life left in the tank, it’s post-metal. The raw emotion, sense of anguish, and willingness to incorporate avant-garde elements into the music mean…
Tag: sludge
Remember the name Voidgazer and keep it in the back of your mind for the next time somebody says modern metal is uninspiring and bereft of ideas. The Missouri quartet…
Danish post-metal/sludge experimentalists, Kollapse, released their debut album, Angst, in 2017 and retreated into isolation long before Covid-19 came along. Now reduced from five in number to a power trio,…
Kent trio, Vesicarum, started life as a solo project of frontman, Glynn Neve, but are now an efficient machine pumping out riffs and grisly distortion like a sloth bear in…
Sarin composed and recorded their latest album as early as 2018. You Can’t Go Back is a record the Toronto post-metallers needed to make at all costs, including their collective…
Back in 2018, Florida’s Yashira released the album, Shrine, to an unsuspecting metal world and showcased a dazzling array of complex rhythms, dense sludge riffery and abrasive drumming. It was…
Ex-ISIS guitarist, Michael Gallagher, started Mustard Gas and Roses (MGR) fifteen years ago as an instrumental side project to his main band. The line-up since 2006 is more of a…
Uncle Woe are a sludge doom duo from the frozen hills of rural Canada. Now on their second album, they conceived Phantomescence as a distance recording project when it became…
In the wake of all the recent restrictions imposed on cities ‘oop north’ by our incompetent government, it seems somewhat fitting that it should fall into the laps of Sheffield…