Articles by Polygon

I think it was 2001 when I first noticed that the synapses of my brain are getting hungry for more bizarre and distracting music art. Black Metal, the cult I was totally spellbound to that […]

With “Wildhoney” Johan Edlund established Tiamat 1994 as a strong and inspired force of avant-garde metal. The follower “A Deeper Kind Of Slumber” (1997), demonstrated Edlunds passion for 80’s dark-pop/rock sounds and his aversion to […]

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 […]

If someone would start a competition to point out the most evil and grim avantgarde Black Metal band of all time, Mysticum would be one of the top favourites to win the price. I mean, […]

For me Leviathan is the reason why I still can enjoy Black Metal. Well, “enjoy” might be the wrong term. I enjoy a plate of spaghetti or the company of friends. Maybe reverence is a […]

Betlehem’s masterpiece “Sardonischer Untergang im Zeichen irreligiöser Darbietung” (in short: S.U.I.Z.I.D.) from 1997 is one of the strangest spawns, which ever arose from the German extreme metal underground. Thousands of bands (not worth the bytes […]

With their third album “With No Human Intervention” the Italian Avantgarde Black Metal freaks of Aborym rose again from the deepest abyss of human psychological nightmare to show the world once more what misanthropic metal […]