Watain
Trident Wolf Eclipse
Century Media (2018)
Spending any length of time with Watain will convince you of at least one thing: this is a band who means it. For this Swedish horde, black metal is life. It’s everything and for frontman Erik Danielsson it’s an integral part of his personality. Interviews with him always tend on the intense side and for Watain that passion spills through their music in waves. Trident Wolf Eclipse is a record that strips back the Watain sound to a primal, swirling beast and forgoes the length and experimentation of 2013s The Wild Hunt for a spritely thirty-five minute ride into oblivion. Where many found fault in The Wild Hunt was in its change of tack from the career defining moments of 2010s Lawless Darkness and the inclusion of “They Rode On” which was essentially a ballad.Watain don’t seem like the kind of band to completely take to heart what the masses think and they have always trod their own path. For them to come roaring back after so long with a record as punchy and deadly as Trident Wolf Eclipse is a sign of them circling back to the early days whilst also pushing the genre firmly back into the dangerous … Read more
Daniel Miller and Terry Burrows
Mute: A visual document from 1978 – tomorrow
Thames & Hudson (2017)
For the uninitiated, and if you are, you might want to look at changing that immediately – shame on you: … Read more
Neil Young and The Promise of the Real
The Visitor
Reprise (2017)
Neil Young releases records at an alarming rate for a septuagenarian. It doesn’t matter, the guy gets a gold pass … Read more
Royal Blood
How Did We Get So Dark?
Warner Bros. (2017)
When English duo Royal Blood released their self-titled debut in 2014, i got into an argument with a friend of … Read more
