Articles by Liam Godfrey
Urfaust
Empty Space Meditation
PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2016
Chances are that if you're familiar with Urfaust, you're a fan. It's hard not to be. The first time I stumbled across Geist ist Teufel, I...
Mithras
On Strange Loops
PUBLISHED Oct 19, 2016
A perfunctory listen to the dizzying layers of reverb and delay on On Strange Loops might beguile one into thinking there's a lot going on...
Sun Worship
Pale Dawn
PUBLISHED May 6, 2016
It isn't hard to discern the influences for this album, nor to draw some comparisons to both more recent bands and established legends alik...
Grave Miasma
Endless Pilgrimage
PUBLISHED May 4, 2016
The newest mini-LP from Grave Miasma is, in a word, dense. Its abstruseness may put some listeners off, as the band move even deeper into a...
Ritual Chamber
Obscurations (To Feast on the Seraphim)
PUBLISHED Feb 24, 2016
Multi-instrumentalist and versatile talent Numinas (Dario Derna) returns under the moniker Ritual Chamber with debut LP Obscurations (To Fe...
Chthe'ilist
Le Dernier Crépuscule
PUBLISHED Jan 27, 2016
Profound Lore are certainly not fooling around when it comes to putting out the most punishing death metal recently, whether it's last year...
Naðra
Allir vegir til glötunar
PUBLISHED Jan 20, 2016
Allir vegir til glötunar ("All paths to oblivion") is the debut album from Naðra, featuring members of Misþyrming and numerous other bands...
Spectral Lore
Gnosis
PUBLISHED Dec 4, 2015
For this second EP over the past year in an exploratory series of recordings, Ayloss — the lone figure behind Spectral Lore — h...