Year: 2018

This is the third ALUK TODOLO album, since 2007’s Descension. It is often said that the third album is where a band has to prove their worth, or give up. It seems true, and Aluk […]

Lurking, murky attempts to Kraut drones; drums a hypnotising steady beat, mekanik but deprived of all life and groove, wandering in Sisyphean circles, the bass does little but to tag along the minimal plodding, only […]

Minimalism obscure, the Way of the Ancestors: Hallucinogenic haunting black filth at the bottom of an occult well. Simplistic ritual motorik drums, monotonous dissonant plodding bass figures… psychotic cavernous sounds from what used to be […]

ALTAR OF PLAGUES made a dramatic entry into the Black Metal conversation with their 2009 LP White Tomb. The album was a crushing, often beauteous soundtrack to mankind’s tumble into ultimate dusk. Fans delighted in the […]

So far, astronomy or cosmology has not given us any reason to believe that there might be a place, somewhere between the eternal clusters of stars and galaxies, that holds a promise of grace, salvation […]

Alien Syndrome 777 is an international avant-garde black metal project formed by and around guitarist/songwriter Alessandro Rossi (Blackdrone Inc, Emrevoid). The project started in 2007 with a virtual collaboration between A.R. and the experimental electronic producer […]

Craveth thou thy fix of black metal but art thou somewhat sick of silly and unintelligent “satanist” lyrics and/or that crappy AAA batteries powered amp cheap far-more-than-underground production, or maybe even that ultrafancy-ass overtriggered so-modern […]

In today’s music scene Alcest is a powerful anomaly which is both disconcerting and reassuring. Disconcerting, because a certain audience will always find its artistic and metaphysical discourse difficult to digest. Reassuring, because those who […]

For followers of underground metal – regardless of genre – Alcest need no introduction. Their 2007 album, ‘Souvenirs D’un Autre Monde’ took the shoegaze metal template popularized by bands such as Jesu and The Angelic […]

I still remember that fateful day in 2003 when I stumbled on Cannibal Corpse’s “Shredded Humans.” My uninitiated ears now experienced music that debunked the facade of the “extreme” and “frightening” nu-metal music I was […]