One of the wondrous things about this music, is that it keeps confounding expectations. It is easy to assume that a particular genre has run its course or has no further byways on which to travel. And then a new act will appear from nowhere and push the envelope in unimagined and unforeseen directions. This is the case of Blackbraid. At a juncture where many of us believed black metal had no ...
Read MoreDread Sovereign tread an impressive line between punk and doom. They are a chaotic and wonderfully ramshackle live experience, a million miles from the smooth professionalism of Nemtheanga’s day job Primordial. It is that raw kinetic energy that makes Dread Sovereign such a fantastic live proposition. Nemtheanga and guitarist Bones career around the stage (and into each other) like Tasmanian devils on speed.
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