Closing track Closure is exactly that, yet it also feels like the band's defining statement. In an increasingly crowded genre where originality can be difficult to achieve, Mountainscape have carved out a sound that feels unmistakably their own. Richly orchestrated, emotionally resonant and endlessly uplifting, it's a piece that genuinely lives up to the album's title, you quite literally feel like you do traverse realms.

There’s a frightening precision to how Sagor Som Leder Mot Slutet operate here. Melodies emerge from the void, patient and deliberate, coiling around a bassline that feels ancient and immovable. Subtle orchestral textures flicker in the background, adding an eerie, almost cinematic weight to everything. The result is sinister, and utterly commanding, and for me this is the band fully submerged in their “happy place!”.

The sheer scale of their sound is impossible to ignore here, a dense, six-piece sonic force that batters you with precision and conviction right from the get-go. Every track feels alive, shifting between crushing intensity and haunting melody. For me, there’s a deep familiarity here too with echoes of the classic doom metal acts like Paradis Lost, Moonspell, and Tiamat woven deep into their fabric. It’s subtle and powerful but all the time Void Of Light are forging something

Rooted in folk rock but flecked with post-rock textures, jazz inflections, and graceful string arrangements, the album unfolds patiently, inviting you to slow down and listen. It’s a beautifully crafted companion for a lazy Sunday and a genuine morning-after indulgence. We all need albums like this to escape to a one stage or another!

When the heaviness comes rolling in, it arrives as a slow implosion rather than an outburst. It's menacing and very Turpentine Valley! The tone is dense and oppressive and totally addictive. It’s within this push and pull, between tenderness and sheer mass, that List finds its power

With their trademark French flair twisted by a dark, cinematic undercurrent, Maudits deliver another release that's refined yet delightfully unsettling.

With Iridescent, Mountainscape have leveled up yet again. Iridescent is an album that balances scales and emotion, where atmosphere doesn’t soften the blows but makes them land harder. The band prove that instrumental metal just needs a vision, and in that respect, they’ve delivered it in spades

This two-track EP unfolds like a dialogue of opposing forces, each piece a vast, immersive soundscape that rises and shifts with the weight of nature’s ferocious elements. TRNA embraces contrast in its purest form, letting sound move between turbulence and serenity until both emotions blur into something transcendent.

I’m delighted to see Greek post rockers we.own.the.sky back in the game with a brand-new single. With Eclipse, the guys mark their return with a carefully sculpted piece of post-rock that feels both fresh and intense, and massively immersive!

Astralia’s Solstice is an exercise in perfectly balancing patience with vast open atmospherics. It’s a record that draws its strength from the spaces it leaves unfilled as much as it does from the broad sound it crafts

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Aoria’s debut is an overlooked masterpiece. It’s powerful, passionate, and utterly immersive for fans of emotionally driven, slow-burning soundscapes. However, It’s a shame that the journey ended here