For most bands and artists the crossing of the vanguard borderline seems to be something they try to avoid like a dangerous disease. Once they found their own style of expression, the natural drive is […]
“Animatronic” is bombastic and silly, a combination that has caused some heads to explode in the black metal scene. A BM fatwa was issued after the NWOBHM influenced, keyboard slathered “space metal” of “Nexus Polaris.” […]
Today I had a sandwich for lunch. No big thing actually, I did not listen to music while eating my creation. In case you want to listen to this album I suggest the following food […]
Some months ago a very obscure package arrived me. It came in a strange Cyrillic plastic bag from a label yet totally unknown to me – HAARBN from Russia. The CDs looked quite conventional – […]
Hailing from the Bordeaux region of France, THE GREAT OLD ONES deal exclusively in music inspired by H. P. Lovecraft (a recent promo photo has band members pictured alongside old Howard Phillips himself). On their […]
It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes… Perhaps it is this quote, from The […]
Grey heavens, no light shed. Down pours a heavy rain. Winds blow, and all that is heard is an acoustic guitar in the distance. “Ire”. Then, a shift of scenery. A sudden stillness. A snare […]
Amongst most people to whom I’ve posited the idea, “Buddhist Metal” seems an oxymoron. The common perception of Buddhism as a philosophy of peace and happiness espoused by gentle smiling Buddhas seems incongruous with the […]
Salam, Aloha, Bonjour, Shalom, Hello and Hail ! Why the ecstatic greetings ? Well, this sector of the hive-mind has been in cryogenic suspension for the better part of two years, and recent re-animation has […]
Guitars and Flangers are great. Beginning one’s review with a sentence like “Guitars and Flangers are great” is also great. The greatness would soon diminish if I continued citing the previous sentence in the following […]
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