Year: 2020

The idea of “outer space” often has a calming effect on heavy metal music. How does one stay bitter in the face of such profound distance and emptiness – such total absence of anything earthly […]

Instruments used: guitars, bass, drums, synthesizers, vocals. General impression: narcotic and celestial. Antecedents in music history: none or not much. Only known purpose: to mesmerize your brain waves. And here we go! A new band […]

This album sees the band further refining their styling to the point where they become almost second nature to the band. It features slightly less of the jazzy excursions one would have found on Still Life and […]

There’s no obvious reason for reviewing a not really new album by Opeth on this page, isn’t it? We all know: nowadays Opeth just sounds like Opeth, and if Opeth creates a record it’s more […]

Fallen leaves crackle beneath determined steps through an October aurora of forest on the edge of a rolling, sunset-painted field with a single, ancient dead tree that sends the soul above a cloudy azure abyss; […]

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ONCE THEM EDENS is a newly formed band residing in Athens, Greece on the verge of their very first album, significantly and symbolistically titled ‘The Year Is One’. The brainchild of mainman ‘Omega’ who is […]

Many light-years away, there is a cluster of stars known as Omega Centauri. Not so far away, more specifically in the UK/Sweden and Belgium there is a two-man cluster of Tom Vallely (music) and Rob […]

A pretty straightforward avant-garde type of metal is performed by Omainen and it features some slight tips of the hat to other groups like Arcturus and even Psychotic Waltz. There’s a slight quirky vibe that […]

The Essence of majestic black metal – on the one hand unapproachable in its claim to power, in his massive sonic outfit somehow disturbing, on the other hand fascinating in its quest for power and […]