Nox Aurea are one of my favourite gloomy doom metal bands, combining a funeral doom style with a gothic one on a great debut album Via Gnosis, with seventy minutes of somber dramatic atmospheres, great vocals and musicianship. There’s similarities … Continue reading
Here is June’s edition of Swirls of Noise radio, featuring a mix of great metal that’s been on rotation over the last month. Starting off with the new band from Anneke Van Giersbergen, with the first single from Vuurs upcoming … Continue reading
So this is the hyped up debut album from King Woman, the band fronted by Kristina Esfandiari after leaving Whirr. Bringing shoegaze and doom metal together they’ve been getting rave reviews across the board for this for the supposedly melancholic combination … Continue reading
After Stream of Passion sadly called it quits at the end of last year, several of the members have already moved onto other projects. Marcela Bovio has already released a brilliant solo album, and with bassist Johan Van Stratum is … Continue reading
Here’s the February edition of Swirls of Noise Radio, as usual featuring the music I’ve been listening to the most the last month. Trees of Eternity open, a track from one of the best album’s I’ve heard in a long … Continue reading
Trees of Eternity was a side project from Swallow the Sun’s guitarist and founding member Juha Raivio and his partner Aleah Stanbridge on vocals. Originally an acoustic project, it expanded into a fully fledged metal band with the addition of … Continue reading
Anyone with an interest in the metal scene at large can’t have missed the huge wave of revivalist bands playing traditional doom metal to come about in the last ten years. Powered by a penchant for pot and Pentagram there’s … Continue reading
Hailing from Oregon in the United States, Yodh is the sophomore album from the black/doom metal one man project Mizmor. With great skill in composition, it moves effortlessly from brooding and atmospheric to barbarous and uncompromising in a fantastic hour of dark metal … Continue reading
From this year Swirls of Noise Radio will be run with more regularity, sharing the best music I’ve been listening to that month – as always mostly new, with a few older uncovered gems. As I don’t have time to … Continue reading
Despite being one of the best bands in the funeral doom scene since their inception in 1998, shows from Shape of Despair are incredibly rare, so there ws a lot of excitement about their first ever UK show, with … Continue reading
