Articles by Adryuu

At first I didn’t get it. Change. The second album was a big change, and this one is as well, again. Yet, Ekpyrosis here present what they’ve been doing all along, more or less, only […]

Vena are newcomers to an already much populated world, that of sludge, post metal and whatever you call those bands. The fact is that I welcome them with their personal approach and innovation in the field, […]

Every reader should know about Bjeima by now. He is the only person behind Yurei and Alfa Obscura, and he also did session bass for the recordings of Virus’ The Agent that Shapes the Desert. He has […]

Remember their first album, Mounds of Ash? It started with a march-ish intro that shortly led into a whirlwind of cymbals and harsh but refreshing chords that eventually turned into an ice-cold riff. That riff. It […]

Beats that pound like a heavier rain. When this raining takes off, up to down, it’s like a grand thrashing of coldness right in the face. A gust of iron blizzard blinds my eyes into […]

What starts as an American folkish kind of weird dream suddenly turns into lo-fi style black metal with distorted shrieks, filtered layers over layers of cleaner, still filtered guitars and a bit annoying pounding that […]

BLACKDRONE INC. is a band comprised of Lord Fraktal (the guitar mad italian guy), Nihil (Joey Hopkins, RIP – the US electronics master), and Mr. Graviton (another US man of Vesperian Construct fame). There’s a mention also to Zweizz who contributes with samples. We are […]

It’s nice to have some Spanish musicians that push their music to un(limits) where some renowned international bands did, or even better, sometimes didn’t. And some of them, like As Light Dies, do it with a […]

Craveth thou thy fix of black metal but art thou somewhat sick of silly and unintelligent “satanist” lyrics and/or that crappy AAA batteries powered amp cheap far-more-than-underground production, or maybe even that ultrafancy-ass overtriggered so-modern […]

One can only be curious to hear what Abigor will do next, after having listened to their previous effort, Fractal Possession, which was kind of a revolution in the band’s always personal sound. Yeah, it’s true that Abigor have always […]