Articles by aVoid

It has been quite a wait for the debut album of French post-Black Metal vanguardists SMOHALLA; the four years since their last proper release (Nova Persei, a 3″ cd limited to a measly 100 copies) […]

French Smohalla is a pretty singular three-piece. There are times when I can’t make myself listen to them, there just isn’t anything there for me to enjoy. Then it turns, and I can’t keep myself […]

If bands were only the sum of their influences and references (not necessarily intentional), then Smohalla would be among the greatest bands on Earth. I can easily trace elements from BM/AGM luminaries as Arcturus (melodies), […]

If you felt that last year’s lauded STAGNANT WATERS debut was a bit too slow, predictable, uneventful and monochrome, this might be your lucky day. PRYAPISME, which is the main project of percussionist/clarinetist/electronician Aymeric Thomas […]

It is hardly standard procedure to receive a promotional copy approximately three years after the initial contact with the band came to an end. But then again, PRYAPISME is hardly a standard procedure orchestra. This […]

First, I must say, I would not consider this Avantgarde Metal. The promo of this album was sent to me, and I figured I might as well be so kind as to not completely ignore […]

Again the machinery rumbles. The malignant cogwheel pulses anew at rhythms undecipherable to ordinary human senses. Mechanical war-beasts somewhere between the ravaging monsters of the early VoïVod albums and the superhuman sterility of Kraftwerk’s Man-machines, […]

Meshuggah is one of the few bands which music demands as high audial quality as possible. That is why I don’t frown at the thought of remixing, remastering, re-everything except writing an album released as […]

[disclaimer: there should be kobaiahn umlauts on the album title & band-name.] 1. MEKANIK is a bucket. A nice bucket, but a bucket. 2. A side-project from members of LYDIA LASKA, DISMAL EUPHONY, GEHENNA, and […]

The anticipated and well publicized album harkening the return of Attila as the voice of Mayhem. Now although this is a band that firmly resides within the realm of Black Metal as oppossed to avantgarde, […]