April 2018 – Avantgarde-Metal.com

Arcturus “The Sham Mirrors”

30. April 2018 David 0

I have many good memories about this album. Not just linked to the music at hand but most of all to the mind shifts it escorted me through! This album was my first conscious encounter […]

Arcturus “Disguised Masters” (1999)

30. April 2018 Ulv 0

Following their Norwegian tradition of varying their previous work * Arcturus managed to create an absolutely mind blasting remake of their own tracks from the previous, just as twisted album, “La Masquerade Infernale”. The idea […]

Arcturus “La Masquerade Infernale” (1997)

30. April 2018 James Slone 0

“La Maquerade Infernale” was and remains a tremendously influential album. Arcturus was largely responsible for popularizing a more theatrical strand of atmospheric metal, and “La Masquerade” was the band’s defining statement, a grotesque and vaudevillian […]

Arcturus “Sideshow Symphonies” (2005)

30. April 2018 Polygon 0

Arcturus is a band which is rated as the main artistic driving force of a free-spirited, unorthodox and freaky generation of musicians. Artists who decided to leave the borders of traditional metal music behind to […]

Arcturus “Aspera Hiems Symfonia” (1996)

30. April 2018 Jobst 0

Could a metal album be soft, like the murmur of a snowflake landing on the ground? Could a distorted strumming give the feeling of that frozen wind, crushing at one’s bare face? What about black […]

Aosoth “IV: An Arrow In Heart” (2013)

30. April 2018 Mystery Flame 0

Aosoth was noted for delivering a product of superior quality with their merciless previous album “III: Violence & Variations”, a scathing, lethal example of avant black metal where bleak dissonance and soul-crushing droning copulated copiously […]

Anubi “Kai Pilnaties Akis Uzmerks Mirtis” (1997)

30. April 2018 revon 0

Anubi was formed in 1992 in the city of Kaunas which is situated on the confluence of River Neman and Neris in the middle of Lithuania. Anubi. When I say this word, I associate it […]

Ansur “Warring Factions” (2008)

30. April 2018 aVoid 0

First, some clarification and explanation is needed before beginning the review. There is progressive music, and then there is avant-garde music. The same music some might claim (perhaps not on this website though, but elsewhere […]

Animals as Leaders “Animals as Leaders” (2009)

30. April 2018 Simon Brand 0

Prosthetic Records are a company which seem to have suddenly decided to discover two of the most original progressive bands currently gracing my ears. Firstly, they had the good sense to sign Scale The Summit […]

Animal Alpha “You Pay For The Whole Seat (But You’ll Only Need The Edge)” (2008)

30. April 2018 Kevin Reichel 0

First of all, Animal Alpha don’t make typical avantgarde-metal music. So if you, dear reader, don’t listen to anything else, if you’re not at least a little openminded, you can stop reading this review right […]