Tag: Gothic
Amorphis – Borderland Review
You do something for thirty-plus years, and you get pretty good at it. Case in point: Finland’s thirty-five-year-old progressive metal wizards Amorphis. After starting out in a more death metal direction, over the last few …
Paradise Lost – Ascension Review
It might be hard to believe, but Paradise Lost’s return to their doom/death roots on The Plague Within is now a full decade old. This makes them almost double veterans of their own sound, now …
Cradle Of Filth – The Screaming Of The Valkyries Review
The one and only concession I will make to any Cradle of Filth haters out there in the course of this review is that a pretty decent burn on Dani Filth’s get-up in the promo …
Diamonds & Rust: Type O Negative – World Coming Down
SKIP IT Believe it or not, the author of this article has not always been a beacon of handsome joy. The Isaac of the late 2000s was not a man of constant sorrow, per se, …
My Dying Bride – A Mortal Binding Review
A certain someone began his review of My Dying Bride’s last album, The Ghost of Orion, by stating that the band has never released a bad album. While that may be very true, there’s no …
Best Of 2022 – Chris C.: Special Tunes From Metal Goons
We live in strange times—said everyone, ever, right now. Like literally everyone. No one has not said this. Even the strange people contributing to said strangeness recognize these are strange times in their own strange …
Sonja – Loud Arriver Review
Long, long ago—even before the days when the lonesome warble of AOL’s “You’ve got mail!” swept through the wilds of the heartlands—goths and metal freaks shared an equitable “the enemy of my enemy is my …
Valborg – Der Alte Review
The less-is-more approach to music, art, architecture, and basically any other form of aesthetic expression has, throughout its history, yielded widely varying results that often feel like contrasts. Punk stripped away the excesses of arena …