Book of Sand – Destruction, Not Reformation
Book Of Sand’s debut for Paradigms is a prime example of ‘zen’ black metal. Meditative oriental hymns meet with the scathing assault we all know and love.
Book Of Sand’s debut for Paradigms is a prime example of ‘zen’ black metal. Meditative oriental hymns meet with the scathing assault we all know and love.
Low end riffing, spiritual affirmation, hypnotised euphoria; Horse Latitude’s dual bass incantations capture the most surreal, epic and psychedelic voyage into the annals of doom since Horseback raised our consciousnesses with The Invisible Mountain last year.
Embrace the heavy-pop genius of Norway’s VENA!
After one year spent honing skills, refining skull-sludgery and peering endlessly into the abyss that is so vividly captured by these doomophiles, Ohio’s Sabre unleashed their first full length through Pact Ink Records earlier this year.
Gates is one man channelling drone so mesmerisingly apocalyptic in scope, you’d be forgiven for suffocating in its presence. Blackened droning ambience of the highest order.
Archon hail the elders with reverence but carve out a more than sufficient niche of their own. So buckle up, light a doob and follow those vapour trails to the riff-filled land with this excellent debut.
Five new hopes from one of metal’s least consistent subgenres…