If we were to start to contemplate which are the dominant genres on my lists, then I think it would come down to a tossup between black metal and post-rock/metal. Whilst they are hardly easy bedfellows, I love both with equal vim and vigour. This is the first appearance of the latter.

Night verses have an esteemed pedigree but have been worryingly quiet of late. Thankfully, five years on “From The Gallery Of Sleep” they return with part one of a two instalment epic. Well I say epic, however part one only clocks in at 33 minutes. 

If the second half is of a similar length, well it begs the question why the hell? You see I really really love this album but it seemed to simply stop without reaching a satisfactory conclusion. After just over a measly half an hour of soaring brilliance it just finishes without warning. The point is this is a brilliant collection of seven songs but it would have got an awful lot higher and made me a lot more satisfied if we simply got both parts together in one sitting. I look forward to the abridged version.