Sthoopa is the debut full length album from Indian death metal group Dhwesha. After releasing a 6 track demo back in 2012, their first full length effort is a great release of riff heavy old school death metal with dark cavernous … Continue reading
After their debut EP Unveiled earlier this year served up a good mix of Eastern influenced progressive symphonic metal, the Turkish group Listana took some time to answer some questions for Swirls of Noise: Hello and thank you for taking the … Continue reading
Live at the Cincinatti Public Library is the début recording from American experimental/ambient duo Goat in the Water. With one untitled track, over the course of eighteen minutes they weave an ever changing blanket of sound, as interesting as it … Continue reading
Hailing from Turkey, Listana are a Turkish female fronted progressive metal band with symphonic influence, and Unveiled is their impressive debut EP. By combining traditional Eastern melodies with their great progressive sound, including the singing in their native Turkish, they’ve … Continue reading
The Departure of Conciousness is the debut full length album from American doomsters Fórn. With the sheer heaviness of Conan weighed down further by ten tonnes of despondency, it’s a devastatingly melancholic album of crushing doom. Emergence kicks things off with … Continue reading
Consumed is the debut full length album from Bristol based death metal band. Combining the great technical death metal style of Death with a good deal of thrash influence from Possessed and Exodus, and with their own great musicianship it’s … Continue reading
For #14 SoN radio returns to it’s usual format – a varied mix of music old and new. This week there’s a lot of new music as 2014 carries on it’s fantastic form, and this week’s is quite global. Symphonic … Continue reading
Wilderness of Mirrors is the most recent album from the prolific Australian ambient/drone composer Lawrence English. A haunting piece of work, the textural depth to English’s sound is at points simply phenomenal. From the opener The Liquid Casket we’re met … Continue reading
Bloodstock 2014 had one of it’s strongest linep’s to date and it looked to be a great festival from Britain’s biggest independent metal festival. Here’s how good it was: Bloodshot Dawn are the main success story of Bloodstock’s Metal to … Continue reading
Bloodstock 2014 was simply epic. Not only does it have one of the best festival atmospheres I’ve known, but the bands were fantastic as well. The new SoN radio is dedicated to the best from this year’s Bloodstock. Entombed AD … Continue reading
