A Certain Taste

 Single Review Artist: Moon Reaper  Title: Dirge of the Moons Score: 8/10 There are bands that describe themselves as cosmic and then there are bands that are cosmic — the kind that make you feel the weight of the universe pressing inward from somewhere deep inside your chest. Moon Reaper UK are emphatically, devastatingly the latter, and with “Dirge of the Moons” they have done something genuinely rare: they have made the infinite feel personal. Bristol has always produced heavy music that sits apart from what the rest of the country is doing, but even by that city’s bruising standards, Moon Reaper operate on a different plane entirely. This is a band that won Metal 2 the Masses, stormed Bloodstock’s New Blood Stage in 2023, earned their place on the Sophie Lancaster Stage in 2024 through sheer force of reputation, and have been tearing holes in the fabric of UK venues ever since. The pedigree is there. The hunger is there. And now, with this single, the recorded monument ...