The Shaking Sensations were over, finished, done. After more than a decade and three records together, the Danish outfit felt they had accomplished what they’d set out to do. They’d gone from covering grunge classics and aping post-rock pioneers to sharing world stages with the genre’s best, and, in 2013’s ‘Start Stop Worrying’, had set a benchmark they themselves felt […]
Read moreSÂVER are fan-fucking-tastic. The Oslo trio (whose name means “to be asleep”, a word which even native Norwegians apparently struggle to pronounce) play scorched-earth metal, roiling doom, and downtuned, downhearted synth-drone that’s designed to destroy eardrums and souls alike but only makes me smile from ear to ear. Their debut full-length, ‘They Came With Sunlight’ is out on Pelagic Records […]
Read moreSet and Setting’s last album struck a brilliant balance. 2017’s ‘Reflectionless’ was part starry ambience, part metallic technicality, all instrumental awesomeness. A year later and ‘Tabula Rasa’ sees the scales tip, perhaps naturally, towards the heavier end of the scale. There are harder edges, heavier riffs, and extra helpings of ominous darkness here. The shift will work for some, there’s […]
Read moreIf the fact that Future Usses feature current and former members of Intronaut, Mouth of the Architect, and Bereft isn’t enough to prick your ears then you should know that ‘An Existential Haunting’ is the best thing any of them have ever done. Opener ‘What Is Anything’ is cinematic and powerful post-rock, 11 minutes long, taking in booming doom, blast […]
Read moreIt’s rare to describe post-metal or doom as immediate. But it takes mere seconds to know that Lesser Glow stand out from the crowd. Built on a familiar foundation of titanic riffs and hoarse screams, the Boston quintet also incorporate serpentine guitar lines, smoky clean vocals, hypnotic melodies, and dark ambience to produce a noise that’s as compelling as it […]
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