Year: 2020

As rumour has it, this album originally came with a pill (!) called “Zopiklon”. Some minor research suggests it is a sleeping pill. Of course taking pills is something everybody should not do so it […]

For me Leviathan is the reason why I still can enjoy Black Metal. Well, “enjoy” might be the wrong term. I enjoy a plate of spaghetti or the company of friends. Maybe reverence is a […]

If there is one thing the French are delightfully capable of doing, it’s combining their extreme metal with a sense of atonal and experimental dementia, uncompromising dedication and an indecent air of depravity. MÜTIILATION and […]

A few of weeks ago, I reviewed Alcest’s latest opus – ‘Escailles De Lune’. You could think of this article as something of a sister piece, with Les Discrets featuring on the same label and […]

Creeping slowly right under the volcanic sand of the wasteland, the thing gets nearer and nearer to my feet. (*) I’m lying on my back, unable to move. I see nothing, but I can feel […]

For some weeks back in 2001 I think, I was really into the Norwegian trio Lengsel. I honestly can’t remember why, but it was probably the combination of their pretty name (meaning “Longing” in Norwegian), […]

If you have read my past reviews for this wonderful site for any length of time, you might have noticed that while I rave on about some quite unhinged and out there bands and artists, […]

This fancy promo, carrying misplaced Kris Vervimp-cover artwork, was sent to me a coupe of weeks ago, and it immediately clinged to my mind. Apparently this Luxembourgian band was up until last year known as […]

Wild, desolate and silent natural passages unfold and evolve when Myth Cathexis begins to roar. Be it the solemn giantness of a great canyon with its dry heat, or the crystal whispering of a waterfall disturbing the […]

Marcelo’s mother died in dramatic circumstances when he was six. Whilst he had always felt different as he did not have a mother who would pick him up from school and so on, what he […]