★★★★★
Napalm Records have set to become a haven for stoner fans. The label saw the rising interest in this type of music, so they started testing the grounds by signing some classic acts such as Karma to Burn, Monster Magnet or Brant Bjork. Soon after, another wave arrived with psychedelic groups like My Sleeping Karma, Glowsun or the hard rock/blues of The Sword or Zodiac. To complement these lighter bands, the Austrian label grabbed British "caveman battle doom" heroes, Conan...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2016-01-27
★★★★★
Hailing from Liverpool, these stoner doom frost giants put on a surprising set. While their aural aesthetic is all crushing doom and weighty sludge, their lyrical and conceptual inspiration comes from Norse mythology. The result is a kind of monumental Viking doom that surges forward with the relentlessness of a fleet of longships and crushes skulls like war hammers...
- exclaim.ca
2015-05-24
★★★★★
There's no denying that doom is making its triumphant return. The influx of bands that are influenced by the genre these days are numerous, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. Enter Conan, an English band that offers no compromise for its intense battle-hymn fueled reveries turned stoner doom nightmares. Their latest album Blood Eagle is by far their most intense album to date...
- www.musicreview.co.za
2014-04-10
★★★★★
Since they released the mighty Monnos in 2012, Liverpool, England's Conan have turned more heads with their atavistic brand of doom metal than they should have. In this respect, Conan are akin to grinding hardcore hotshots Nails; neither is what you would normally class as a typical "buzz band", yet metal and some non-metals folks have latched on to both bands tighter than a pair of skinny jeans on an obese hipster. In Conan's case, this is surprising...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-03-20
★★★★★
They are referred to by the media as "currently one of the heaviest bands in the world", and this may or may not be because of the way in which Jon Davis, guitarist and vocalist for Liverpudlian doom metal act Conan, proudly proclaims the band to play "Heavy caveman metal". That said, one listen to either of the band's two albums, more importantly the latest release entitled , and you'll safely be confirming the band's well renowned penchant for heavy riffs and fuzzy atmosphere...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-03-16
★★★★★
The first moments of 'Blood Eagle' are somewhat deceptive. Liverpool's Conan set the sonic density bar so high with their first couple of releases that you'd be forgiven for thinking that they'd gone all polite this time. But no, it proves ruse. This third album proper from the trio soon proves itself the most crushingly powerful 45 minutes of metal Clash has heard in some time. Conan have riffs, and from this evidence they may even have all the riffs...
- www.clashmusic.com
2014-03-13
★★★★★
They may have been momentarily deified by the hipster contingent, but Conan's latest slab of rumbling doom metal is still joyously uncompromising: a sustained onslaught of churning, slow-motion riffs and hellish bellowing that shouts its atavistic, Sabbath-worshipping essence from the shadowy rooftops. Their songs are exercises in scowling, Lovecraftian menace, with macabre fantasies brought to life via detuned guitars and Jon Davis' despairing bellow...
- www.theguardian.com
2014-02-28
★★★★★
"These songs each come off as their own sonic battles, wars of attrition that leaves many bloodied and few left standing." Sometimes, the smartest approach a band can take is to just be as non-discreet as possible with their music. No hidden messages; no grasping for some spiritual revelation; no fussing over every little detail. The band lets the listeners decide if they fall in love with the music based on the face value alone...
- www.metalunderground.com
2012-07-26
★★★★★
Referring to a new or obscure band as a "best kept secret" is one of the lazier tropes in music writing and, in most cases, a faulty one at that. Nobody's keeping secrets; the writer in question just hasn't been digging deep enough. And the band isn't part of a silent movement deadset on keeping its every move hush-hush-- that sort of behavior would be a bit self-defeating, no...
- pitchfork.com
2012-04-12
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