Published: June 19, 2023

Three years ago, during the middle of a pandemic, needing something to occupy my mind beyond confinement with my then five-year-old daughter, I submitted my first review as a reviewer for The Sleeping Shaman. At the time, I had no real awareness of where this new journey would lead me, but as a fan of heavy music for over thirty-something years, I always felt that I had it in me to at least talk a good album. Since then, I have rev...

Published: June 15, 2023

Across the likes of Lotus Thief, Forlesen and Botanist, Beth Gladding (aka Bezaelith) has demonstrated an inclination towards music that is atmospheric and/or unusual; her latest project Inherus continues this trend.

Gladding joined a project initially formed by Anthony DiBlasi (Witchkiss), Brian Harrigan (Swallow The Ocean) and Andrew Vogt (Lotus Thief, Swallow The Ocean), and the sludgy, doomy natures of Witchkiss and Swallow The Ocean gi...

Published: June 3, 2023

If all these bodies, metaphorical or otherwise, piling up in the dank basement of this post then rest assured – angelic, etherial doom is here to save your souls. The music here is obviously wonderful, transitioning from doom to post-metal atmospheres and sometimes prog. So, grade-A shit. But I'm here for Bezaelith's voice, sorry. That's just the way it goes. Like a ray of moonlight in vocal form. What a gift. FFO: Forlesen, Empress, Su...

Published: June 2, 2023

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Having a look online at where Inherus sit musically their members have come from various bands such as Witchkiss, Botanist, Swallow The Ocean and Lotus Thief to name but four. It’s labelled as a mix of post-metal and heavy rock that takes in black metal, doom, psyche on its musical journey.

So, when it starts with a roar and a warm guitar sound that bows at the alter of the Lord Tony Iommi it’s not what I expected at all. Forgotte...

Published: June 2, 2023

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It’s been almost a year since Hypnotic Dirge Records has given us any new music, having closed up their original base of operations in Canada last Summer and moved everything to Portugal. After some unfortunate logistical snafus, the gates to the kingdom have reopened, and a flood of new releases are already lined up. Last month saw the release of the sophomore album from death/doom titans Orphans of Dusk (their first in 8 years!), and now...

Published: May 26, 2023

If you head north from New York’s Big Apple, you can travel along the Hudson River until the city is a distant memory. The Hudson Valley is rich with wildlife and trees. Every year the foliage blooms with color, then withers as winter approaches. But even when the days are cold and at their shortest, rebirth is just a season change away. Inherus formed in that setting in 2018, uniting Brian Harrigan (Grid, Swa...

Published: May 26, 2023

What if Opeth were as post as they are prog? The influence of the pioneers of progressive death metal are clear on this first album from Inherus, but its inventive blend with post-metal make it more than worthwhile in its own right.

Five songs – excluding a short interlude – each close to ten minutes or even longer is an intimidating prospect. If your tolerance for repetition is low, this is not the album for you, but what do you exp...

Published: May 26, 2023

The four-piece heavy music band Inherus is hard to describe with a single tag. I like doom so I would call them doom, but they aren’t doom in a traditional sense. There are progressive elements in the music, but I wouldn’t call them a prog band. I used the “post-metal” label in the slug line, but I am not even sure what that is. How about this: Inherus combine elements that, on paper, might not seem to go together very well,...

Published: May 26, 2023

It takes a full hour to listen to Inherus’ debut album Beholden, and this gigantic record isn’t one to take lightly. Five of the six songs are at least ten minutes long (or a few seconds away from that distinction) and only closer “Lie To The Angels” kicks into a higher gear with the death metal-inspired break in its latter half. The harsh vocals come into the forefront during this section, a jarring counterpoint to the crisp mel...

Published: May 24, 2023

You know that scene in The Last of Us where we first meet the clickers, which can’t see but are attracted to the slightest sound? This is how I regard my fellow AMG scribes, as sightless fungi that I must not alert to the tastiest morsels in the sump until that point in time when AMG Promo Pit Rules allow me to make a breakneck sprint for the album I’ve been eyeing up. Until then, I have to stay absolutely silent. So it was that for...

Published: May 19, 2023

The first question – well, to be really truthful, maybe not the first, but one of the first – that pops up my mind when I get a new album to review is what contribution this band and this album are giving to Metal music. It’s such a natural question if one thinks the quantity of albums and bands we receive to be reviewed here everyday. I’d add that this is a very important question to decide which albums will be reviewed. So many ...

From: Metal Temple
Published: April 1, 2023
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From their record label’s website, “Crossing the realms of Post-Metal and Heavy Rock, “Beholden” is a 6 track, 60-minute album, that mixes Black Metal, Psyche-Rock-influenced solos and doomy riffs with male and female clean & harsh vocals. The record spans genres without living in any singular one and yields both a united heartbreaking and feral sound. “Beholden” will be released on May 26th, 2023. The overall theme is the pow...