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 […]
“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 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 […]
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 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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“Des Winters finsterer Gesell” tells the dark story of Der Finsterer Gesell, a bitter misanthrope who wanders from homestead to homestead in the Alps in the dead of winter, murdering their inhabitants. The music, often […]
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