Ebonie here. Let us talk metal over coffee.
My first thought when I listened to Gloson‘s first full-length album Grimen was… “Oh shit, I found a band similar to Cult of Luna. YAS!” And you’ll completely understand me if you are a CoL fan and have listened to this epic debut album. There are a lot of similarities here. Cult of Luna are both from Sweden. The kinds of synths and effects anchored by…
Song of the Week #35 Happy June 1st, metalheads! I’m here with a hella-sick Song of the Week for your hearing pleasure. Hailing from good ol’ Connecticut, Burrows released an EP called Mar last fall and it definitely was an unfortunate oversight on my part. If you like your metal served up minimalistic and raw, you’re gonna want to check out this EP. The interesting thing is that I here…
Song of the Week #34 I definitely went through my intense prog metal phase back in the late 2000s with my everyday playlist consisting of Liquid Tension Experiment, Animals as Leaders and Demians. So it was a beautiful reminiscent surprise to listen to Sithu Aye‘s lasted double album, Set Course for Andromeda, and immediately fall in love with it. Sithu Aye is a young overly talented musician from Glasgow, UK…
Song of the Week #26 Portland sludge apprentices, Ape Cave, self-released their debut LP, Pillars of Evolution, this month and all I can think about is how intelligently and consistently heavy this album is. This band has only been together for 1 year and having only released an EP Primoridum prior to this, they show incredible musicianship and progress. My Song of the Week is their starter track, “Vesuvius”, and it has…
Entering the new year, I thought about some of the metal releases that I might have overlooked and decided to back track a bit to see if I missed anything blood curdling… Turns out… I did! Shame on me. Let me first start off by saying mathcore is my favorite flavor of hardcore. There’s an extreme technicality associated with this genre that leaves me in awe…