Again the machinery rumbles. The malignant cogwheel pulses anew at rhythms undecipherable to ordinary human senses. Mechanical war-beasts somewhere between the ravaging monsters of the early VoïVod albums and the superhuman sterility of Kraftwerk’s Man-machines, […]
The sound of Meshuggah’s Catch 33 is often difficult to confine under a microscope, so let’s just use the three snakes on the cover as metaphors for concepts which the album resembles: 1) A black […]
Meshuggah is one of the few bands which music demands as high audial quality as possible. That is why I don’t frown at the thought of remixing, remastering, re-everything except writing an album released as […]
REALITY ROCK ‘N’ ROLL! I’ve always enjoyed a dangerous car race or two at night, blame it on my unavoidable desire to die under the moon’s reflections. When for my birthday I received a new […]
Quite a little surprise we have here with MENCEA fro Greece. Never heard of them before, which is not really surprising considering the fact that this is their debut album. The promo sheet promises, as […]
Back from the ashes of ruins and cults, Menace Ruine will probably surprise many of their fans with their last album released by alien8 Recordings. The Die is Cast indeed conveys a completely different atmosphere than the […]
[disclaimer: there should be kobaiahn umlauts on the album title & band-name.] 1. MEKANIK is a bucket. A nice bucket, but a bucket. 2. A side-project from members of LYDIA LASKA, DISMAL EUPHONY, GEHENNA, and […]
Oh, those were the days! When death metal bands roamed the earth, rolling in the halls of the technical institutes of the world, embarking on a quest to find and to prove that the genre […]
The sophomore release from this industrial metal super group was somewhat of a surprise, given the rather drastic progression, which might have had something to do with the changing of members. Trevor and Donald (of […]
Now this is some seriously deranged stuff ! I have been hearing good things about these guys, but some of the praise was from the hipster contingent so I approached the release with caution. Despite […]
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