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Keepers · 08/02/2024
Funeral doom for the emotionally unwell. SLOW’s V – Oceans is what happens when despair gets a sound engineer—and it’s weirdly comforting.
Keepers · 03/02/2024
Hellripper aka James McBain is currently touring with Abbath and Toxic Holocaust. He was in Hamburg just a couple of days ago. Had I listened to this album a bit earlier, I might have gone and bought myself a ticket just to see the support act. Hellripper is a one-man band from Scotland formed in 2014. Since 2014 McBain has released three studio albums, two EPs and various splits. His third and latest studio album Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags was released in February 2023 and met with...
Keepers · 24/01/2024
Agalloch’s The Mantle is more than an album—it’s a cold, quiet refuge. An atmospheric metal masterpiece that asks you to slow down and stay.
Keepers · 12/01/2024
Cattle Decapitation. Sounds about right for my vegan self. I have to admit, I'd come across this band's name a couple of times already while reading up on other bands or genres and the name alone was so offputting for me, I never looked closer. Turns out, Cattle Decapitation is as pro-vegan as you can get in extreme metal. While none of the band members are indeed vegans, their music and their lyrics deal with animal exploitation and animal rights. Among other things. Formed in San Diego in...
Keepers · 18/12/2023
DSBM 101: French misery, 10-minute looped riffs, and the kind of vocals that sound like your soul clawing at the walls. Let’s talk Reflections of a Sad Soul.
Keepers · 14/11/2023
Ah, melodic black metal. Just got to love it, right? Seriously, there is not much music I can enjoy quite as much as melodic black metal (apart from Type O of course, they are unmatched so far). After Mgła's Exercises in Futility got me back on track, I decided to continue down this road for now and from Mgła it is not far to UADA from Portland. UADA was founded in 2014 by Jake Superchi who is also the vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the band and the only remaining founding member today. So...
Keepers · 10/11/2023
It's been quiet on my metal blog as I've been quite occupied with my other writing project. I'm still totally batshit crazy about Type O Negative and listen to hardly anything else most days. My friend's husband decided it was time to hustle things along and sent me his favourite metal albums. This resulted in an impressive Spotify Playlist of 24 hours and 22 minutes. As a girl has to start somewhere, I picked the band whose name I couldn't pronounce at first: Mgła. Mgła is a Polish black...
Keepers · 30/07/2023
A love letter to October Rust—Type O Negative’s lush, gothic masterpiece. Death, sex, sadness, and Peter Steele at his seductive best.
Keepers · 13/04/2023
111 days till W:O:A 2023. I am staying in Iceland with Sólstafir. It was impossible for me to pick one album for the sake of this blog article. I've been all over the place with Sólstafir and I love everything I've heard so far. And I think this is part of Sólstafir's secret power. Their music is less about being contained to one album, one concept, one story. Their music is about atmosphere. About feelings. It is music to think to, to let your mind wander, to flee to other realms.
Keepers · 05/04/2023
An unforgettable live collaboration between Skálmöld and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Viking metal, Icelandic myth, and one of the most jaw-dropping vocal performances in metal—ever.