Rarely do the auricular offerings of folk metal bands invocate a quiet corner of nature for purposeful meditation. More often they are filled with the echoes of clashing iron weapons and wooden shields and mead-filled […]
One of the most beautiful scenes in recent cinema history, in my opinion, is the opening of Danny Boyle’s Sunshine during which Cliff Curtis’ character sits in a shielded room at the bow of Icarus […]
Suffering of solitude and loneliness: not the social one, but the one that grabs hold of you when you notice how truly insane seemingly everybody, including your friends and family are, appears to be the […]
Star Tales… and now I have no idea what to say. On one hand I would love to give you a full oversight of what this album is potentially going to do to you once […]
Never before have I heard an album that struck me as hard as a perfect snapshot of the current Zeitgeist in which people’s compassion and concern for others doesn’t reach further then their penis length […]
Have you ever been to Barcelona? Never? It’s marvellous! I spent two months there in summer last year and didn’t come back as the same person. There is a simply tremedously strong vibe in that […]
I have many good memories about this album. Not just linked to the music at hand but most of all to the mind shifts it escorted me through! This album was my first conscious encounter […]
So far, astronomy or cosmology has not given us any reason to believe that there might be a place, somewhere between the eternal clusters of stars and galaxies, that holds a promise of grace, salvation […]
The first time that “Formless” collided with my ear drums I can’t say I was impressed. As I listened the first time through the album I even reached the state of occasional disappointment and thought […]
For some odd reason, my brain could never conceive why the principles of far eastern philosophy have never, or rarely, been the source of inspiration of some of the greatest metal albums ever released. I […]
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