Year: 2020

This was my first encounter with SIGH. And a formative one. An album wich starts deceivingly “normal”, but ends as a soundtrack to some drugged horror film. The title Track, at the same time the […]

I am going to spoil my own punchline this time by telling you why I label this release “Mirror Avantgarde”: Because it is not Avantgarde. And by that, it is so much Avantgarde it hurts. […]

Review’s Syllabus: If this review were a tree, I’d use a knife and cut ‘Love you’ into it. I have this theory that when listening to music you’ve never heard before the things that happened […]

Founded in 1989 by Mirai, Satoshi and Kazuki (Who was soon to be replaced by Shinichi), SIGH became – and not only due to lack of other contestants – one of the best known Black-Metal […]

The record “Blackjazz” by Norwegian SHINING – not to be mistaken for their Swedish namesakes – is shit, annoying shit to be outspoken. No boring average mainstream consensus bullshit, but really obnoxious crap you can’t […]

The masters are back from the dark abyss, and they peer deep into the darkness – inside and out – to bring you tales of blackest despair and death, crafted into some of the most […]

SepticFlesh team up with the Prague Philharmonic for “Communion,” replacing what would have been keyboard parts with real orchestration and choral arrangements. As usual, their songs deal with mystical experience, mythology and ancient history, covering […]

Septic Flesh have had a somewhat sporadic output over the years, but have found the time to put together an unusually strong discography. Some of their best and oddest material emerged from their brief collaboration […]

In one of my reviews for metal.de (click here to read said (German) review) I jokingly connected the term “open minded” with excessive use of drugs – and I had no idea this statement would one […]

Secrets of the Moon have put out an album that creates a new genre: dooth metal. It’s doom metal that occasionally speeds up towards death metal, but doesn’t go all the way. Dooth. The final […]