Year: 2018

Ah ! Album number # 2 . With the powerful opener, a number of factors soon become clear. The production has improved a little (it was already pretty good) and some of the songwriting kinks […]

A totally ripping opens up the album, and it is relentless ride form there on. A number of things are immediately striking to the listener : good production despite the overall black metal feel, a […]

Have you ever been to Barcelona? Never? It’s marvellous! I spent two months there in summer last year and didn’t come back as the same person. There is a simply tremedously strong vibe in that […]

Four years following the release of their critically acclaimed and heavily experimental second full-length album Ars Subtilior from Within the Cage, Spanish avant-garde black metal horde As Light Dies return with The Love Album – Volume I. The band’s […]

It’s nice to have some Spanish musicians that push their music to un(limits) where some renowned international bands did, or even better, sometimes didn’t. And some of them, like As Light Dies, do it with a […]

There comes a first for everything in the realms of AGM. This review marks the first of two things in my life, the first review I’ve done in a foreign country (coming to you from […]

The three songs with an average length of (4:16 + 3:11 + 4:19)/3 = 11:46/3 = 3,82 are lead by a gremlinesque singer and other instruments. The essence of the album can be heard when […]

There are multiple distinct varieties of Space Metal. There is the “floating in space” variety – a disembodied and contemplative music that speaks of cold vacuum and deep isolation, but also of cosmic masterpieces, of […]

-Thor Joakimsson  VITALS: Release:  2010Label:  Kreisel Kreisel RecordsAvantgenre:  Atmospheric Post Metal / RockDuration:  Two Long SongsOrigin:  Cologne / GermanyOfficial site:  http://www.myspace.com/arktikapunk Review online since:  10.11.2010 / 16:18:40 TRACKLIST: 01 – Heartwrencher 02 – The Rest Of Your Life