When you’re far removed from everything, away on the outer rim, things can get lonely. It’s not for everyone. Sometimes, though, that distance and separation can lead to the creation of beautiful works of art. Towards the furthest flung end of Scotland, in the archipelago of Orkney, Electric Mother have…

Colossus – Degenesis (album) Release date: 05th February 2021||Genre: Extreme death metal||Label: Comatose Music Setting out to deliver an apocalyptic onslaught of technical death metal, Colossus have certainly hit their mark with Degenisis. Most of the tracks are so mind-grindingly relentless as to be almost unlistenable to mortal ears. It…

Feeding Frenzy 29||01||21 Welcome to Slow Dragon Music‘s review Feeding Frenzy, where we scoop up all the runaways who thought they’d made it under our watchful eye. ***we like to arrange our meals in alphabetical order***  Cibola –  Downfall (album)   This Swedish one-man project presents some intriguing turns in…

Sumeru – Blood Ordinance (EP) Release date: 21st January 2021||Genre: Sludge metal||Label: Brilliant Emperor As far as I can tell, Australia is slaying it in the heavy music stakes right now. It’s not just in one genre, either. Thrash, death, doom. You name it! This week, Sumeru climb to the…

Dragon Fire:  Tribulation, Sepultura, Meshuggah and  more – 19||01||21    Tribulation release new video for Funeral Pyre Taken from their Century Media/Metal Blade album Where The Gloom Becomes Sound, the band say it is “a song about sacrifice and loss and the immortality quest of heroes past.” It follows previous…

Sarin – You Can’t Go Back Release date: 05th February 2021||Genre: Post-metal||Label: Prosthetic Records Canada does seem to churn out a good amount of quality metal, though not all of it is fully recognised. Three albums in, and Toronto’s Sarin are still pushing. With You Can’t Go Back they have…

Feeding Frenzy 06||01||21 Welcome to Slow Dragon Music‘s review Feeding Frenzy, where we scoop up all the runaways who thought they’d made it under our watchful eye. ***we like to arrange our meals in alphabetical order***  Auðn –  Vökudraumsins Fangi(album)     If you prefer your black metal closer to…

Albums Of The Months 2020 If you’re familiar with the old Slow Dragon Music site, you’ll know what the deal is with Albums Of The Months 2020. For those who don’t, the basic premise is that, instead of a straight up pick of all releases throughout the entire year, we…

Dragon Fire: Moonspell, Niklas Sundin, Cult Of Luna and  more – 18||12||20  In the run-up to their 30th anniversary, Moonspell are in the depths of a new album. To celebrate, they recently released a video for Common Prayers. Their previous video, The Greater Good, was deemed a little too much…

Volcano X & Masonic Abyss (interview) Dundee has had its ups and downs in the heavy music scene over the years. At one point, it was a veritable hotbed of new talent for the genre, and, more recently, was proclaimed the UK’s most metal city on Spotify. Of course, we…