The Smashing Skull Sessions

Turpentine Valley - Alder

Article  |  February 21st, 2022
By Pat O'
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Lucida Dark – Of Death, Of Love

Article  |  February 13th, 2022
By Pat O'
dark, metal, music, musicreview, musicreviews, podcast, post-metal, post-rock, review, rock, shoegaze

Lucida Dark have written an album that tips the scales between darkness and light, harmonising these polar opposites through an odyssey of love and death. Music can elevate, and music can transcend. Of Death, Of Love does both!

Violet Cold - Səni Uzaq Kainatlarda Axtarıram

Article  |  February 5th, 2022
By Pat O'
#black-metal, #blackgaze, #metal, #musicreview, #musicreviews, #podcast, #post-metal, #post-rock, #review, #rock, #shoegaze, #violetcold

Violet Cold play a style of Atmospheric Black Metal that hypnotises and spellbinds the listener. Ambient elecltronic soundscapes collide with a cosmic black gazed frenzy, exploding into what can only be described as full on sensory overload. No better place to be!

Mountaineer – Giving Up The Ghost

Article  |  February 1st, 2022
By Pat O'
#lifeforcerecords, #metal, #mountaineer, #musicreview, #podcast, #post-metal, #post-rock, #review, #rock

Mountaineer have delivered yet again, and have released an album that smothers and shrouds the listener with its blanket of rich melodic hooks and heaving shoegaze riffs. The music is often dark and overcast , but it always allows that little shard of light through, which brings hope and rebirth.