Three decades, that’s how long Swedish prog icons Katatonia have been putting pick to string. Whether this seems possible or not, their repertoire of success speaks for itself and the band has rarely dipped from the upper echelons of the progressive scene. This quite rightly calls for celebration. Mnemosynean is as much of a self…
With the new wonderful Katatonia album City Burials being released yesterday (24th April 2020) on Peaceville Records, the band are celebrating the album’s release by unveiling their newest single. Taken from City Burials, The Winter Of Our Passing is the third single to emerge from the album and has been immortalised in a beautifully animated…
Katatonia, much like their Scandinavian contemporaries Opeth, essentially have two acts to their career. The original musical direction of the band, very much in the doom / gothic metal mould, and their more recent offerings, which over the second half of their existence has shown them to be one of the world’s finest exponents of…
Sikth are a band that came around at the right time. In the early 00’s, nu metal was spluttering along and Sikth hit like a bolt out of the blue. After touring the toilet circuit for a number of years, they delivered a stunning debut album ‘The Trees Are Dead And Dried Out, Wait For Something…
What a wonderful piece of “anniversary” news this is! Longtime favourites of ours, Scandinavian dark progressive metallers Katatonia have announced they will be coming to the UK to celebrate their 25 year anniversary as a band with us this October. On the 21st of October Katatonia’s biggest ever UK headline show will take place at…
For any band to reach their tenth album is a very special achievement. That the band is the much loved Swedish progressive metallers Katatonia will led to much happiness worldwide, as they announce the release details of their new album The Fall Of Hearts. Four years on from the release of another acclaimed classic Dead…
At the very end of 2014, Rock Sins was granted an interview with one of the greats of British metal from the last twenty years. Nick Holmes, best known as frontman for Paradise Lost and now more recently as the new man behind the microphone for the death metal super group Bloodbath. Rock Sins’ Philip…
Doom overlords My Dying Bride have long been known for their sombre, dark and melancholic melodies of shame and desire, and with the release of EP ‘The Manuscript’, this is a reputation they are unlikely to lose. Themes such as religion, fantasy, desire and loss have always been a staple of the foundations that are…
With a brand of gothic doom metal forged in the heart of Yorkshire for close to two decades, a new release from My Dying Bride is always eagerly awaited by the bands’ hardcore fans and metal conosseiurs from all over the world alike. Whichever category one might fall into, the wait for the next release…
