Published: May 31, 2017

OK - well, this is...sizeable. A double CD package: four tracks occupying well over an hour and a half of music, all wrapped in designs filled with cryptic symbology and iconography, delving into quasi-religious mythological archetypes, and with a whacking great booklet included. In fact, 'sizeable' doesn't really do it justice - let's go with 'bloody enormous', instead. 

VdMT, never the most predictable of bands - despite the constancy o...

Published: May 29, 2017

This is the second album from Ukrainian doom metal band Vin de Mia Trix.

One of the reasons I love what I do at Wonderbox Metal is that I get exposed to some amazing music that I might not have ever encountered otherwise. This latest release by Vin de Mia Trix is exactly one of the reasons why I find running this site so fulfilling.

So, here we have a colossal album full of unrestrained ambition, with the musical talent to back it up. Thi...

Published: May 1, 2017 

Vin  De  Mia  Trix  are  a  band  from  Ukraine  that  plays  a  progressive  form  of  funeral  doom  metal  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  2017  album  "Palimpsests"  which  will  be  released  on  May  31st  as  a  joint  effort  between  Hypnotic  Dirge  Records  and  Cimmerian  Shade  Recordings.

 Atmospheric  sounding  synths  start  off  the  album  along  with  some  drones  also  being  used  at  times  along w...