Norway’s Duplicate Records interest in avant-garde metal releases is of course no news to any fan of the genre, reinforcing this extreme music with every album it puts out. But with their newest outcome, this […]
It has been quite a wait for the debut album of French post-Black Metal vanguardists SMOHALLA; the four years since their last proper release (Nova Persei, a 3″ cd limited to a measly 100 copies) […]
French Smohalla is a pretty singular three-piece. There are times when I can’t make myself listen to them, there just isn’t anything there for me to enjoy. Then it turns, and I can’t keep myself […]
If bands were only the sum of their influences and references (not necessarily intentional), then Smohalla would be among the greatest bands on Earth. I can easily trace elements from BM/AGM luminaries as Arcturus (melodies), […]
When I grew up, I was a regular reader of the German Metalhammer-Magazine. I remember reading the editorials of Götz Kühnemund and always wondered how his living room might look like and what he kept […]
In an effort to expand agm’s sweep into the past, here is a review of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum’s freshman effort, “Grand Opening and Closing” (2001). There’s a lot to read in the liner notes. They […]
“In Glorious Times” churns, slithers, and grinds its way through a psychotic array of moods and sounds, with songs ranging from anguished paranoia to grimly amusing misanthropy. The experimental rock/metal collective Sleepytime Gorilla Museum carved […]
Is it why I waited for five long miserable years? Since mid-90s, SSOGE has always been among my favorite bands. Their unique blend of folk and doom metal has always amazed me if not charmed. […]
These Japanese masters of avantgarde black metal were always famous for astonishing their very own fanatics too and so far they gave us with all of their albums a masterpiece in his genre. I could […]
This EP marks a changing point for Sigh, a Japanese band with roots in black and doom metal and aspirations to psychedelia, orchestralia and everything in between. Here begins the play with structure and sound, […]
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