The world’s metal scene is heavily loaded with side projects and secondary bands. In a somehow rough statistic ruling, it is quite obvious that most of them don’t elevate to the level of the whelping […]
The band picture was not promising, but the cover was so here goes : A poignant sample opens up the proceeding, leading into a frantic attack of state-of-art 21st century electro-metal. The synths are all […]
“Khaooohs And Kon-Fus-Ion,” Pan-Thy-Monium’s awkwardly titled and far-too-short finale, is like an inexplicably fun sledgehammer to the head: brutal death metal in the nineties Relapse mode with hectic song structures, wild baritone sax squawking, NYC […]
Something about the packaging warned of the cataclysm contained therein. The digi-pack is adorned with dark and subtle artwork, and the inside art features a disturbing miasma of styles, that lends to the overall disquieting […]
The music seeps in, subtle yet oppressive. I am listening on headphones, tired after a week of soul crushing work routine, and the rich dark tonalities in stereo deepen the wounds of civilization that bleed […]
After his activities in THE GROTESQUE and AT THE GATES, Alf Svensson decided to work with some previously unreleased material, which ended in the albums of OXIPLEGATZ (named after a creature in a Donald Duck […]
“Sidereal Journey” is the third, final, and best album from Oxiplegatz, Alf Svensson’s short lived post At the Gates solo project. It’s a strange little album, with outsized ambition, comprised of one epic song divided […]
I don’t know if Kevin Moore suffers from permanent root canal treatments by his dentist, but he sings like if that was the case: the joie de vivre seems unknown to the musician with the […]
I remember a time when “happy metal” was the favorite go-to dismissal of fanzine writers wary of death metal’s forays into more positive-sounding terrain. The Goteborg bands, particularly In Flames, were favorite targets. Somehow Israel’s […]
(Warning : This record is definitely not for the faint of heart, and although being as progressive and original as metal can get, it’s still very much a brutal death metal album) After the mind-bending […]
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