My Music Path

Holy Fawn is a shoegaze/doomgaze band from Phoenix, Arizona and after their awesome debut album 'Death Spells' in 2018, they released a surprise EP 'The Black Moon' in January of this year. Can they create that same feeling I got when I heard 'Loveless' for the first time?  Tracklist: 1. Candy 2. Tethered 3. Blood Pact The short answer, they do. The long answer is this entire review haha. For me, the idea of shoegaze is first trying to feel some superficial emotion, which opens up much deeper lying ones. Call it euphoric sadness, or cathartic, in the end, you’re addicted to that feeling and you dive into the genre and never come out. That’s what happened to me when I saw a fragment of a noisy, distorted clip on MTV back in the ’90s. I really liked the ocean of guitar noise sound and the angelic vocals. Years later I found out that I saw the 'Only Shallow' clip from My Bloody Valentine. Because of that, I started a journey into that genre and it has...

Artwork: Guilherme Dourart The debut album Aid To Worship  by Irish sludge metal band Iona Death Cult came out on March 28th. An album that ends with a sneeze! Hopefully right in the face of the leader of The Catholic Church? Does the Pope ever sneeze? Does he then pull out..... a satin white gold rimmed handkerchief? Nevermind. Now, does this album rock or does it suck? Well, it certainly doesn't suck. Au contraire.  Tracklist 1. The Apathy Of Ghosts 2. Slumlord 3. Whores and Thieves 4. Kafka 5. Mother Gaia 6. Inverted World Aid To Worship is the first full-length album by Iona Death Cult from Bray, a city south of Dublin. After The Cult is Real EP  which contained two instrumental metal/rock songs, the band decided to start using vocals. Bassist Ste does a fine job bellowing his conceptual lyrics: Ireland is taken over by a cult that tells everyone how everything works and where capitalism has torn humanity from within. In six heavy pounding...