Year: 2020

“Furze” is the name of the Blade on the Reaper’s scythe – the one and only trademark of the one and only Reaper, made “music”. Woe J. Reaper, sole member of Furze, began back in […]

30-second-Grindcore-tracks, beer, faecal humour, men in drags, beer, porno film samples, beer- this is what you would excpect when opening the booklet of the first official full-length of FREUND HEIN (drawn in the style of […]

It is twenty degrees below zero and on the wrong side of midnight as I drive home to my log cabin on the outskirts of Fairbanks, Alaska. Above me, sheets of absinthe-green aurora swirl around […]

An old one from the trash bin. From silence it speaks. * What happens when an internationally recognized avant-garde music composer and sound artist, who has never before nor after released anything Metal-related, decides to […]

I am not the first person to say this, but when one gets acquainted with the Catalans, ever more so if on a personal level, one cannot help becoming a little partial towards Foscor. The […]

Lund: A southern Swedish city incubating in the shadows of the monolithic Lund University, and that from time to time implode into a pseudo-intellectual melting pot. Sometimes, entities make their way out of this porridge. […]

The Czech eclectoprogdeathmetal orchestra FORGOTTEN SILENCE seem to have flown far below the radar of most listeners for far too long. Since 1994, these visionaries have released a total of six albums and a row […]

Forgotten Silence has a cute habit. Their last couple of albums and EPs are based on their travels. Their most recent one (as of today), for example, is mused by the British city of Brighton. […]

I honestly don’t remember how many FS reviews I have written throughout the ages for various fan/zines. And, I don’t really know why I feel like writing a new one every now and then. Perhaps, […]

The lights turn dim and we hear a voice that introduces us into a darkness just about to take off like a space shuttle when the first riff appears. It fits perfectly with the dark […]