Articles by Jobst

The first conclusion of this review will also be the very last: this is an amazing album. Now, after it is loud out in the open, I shall explain why this massive piece marked with […]

This world is a breathing mechanism. The ghosts of the machine are the sirens on its shores. They hammer you like the parasite that you are, through tunnels of existence. But existence does not care […]

It could have been a huge success of the east European cinema: Cooperation between the mysterious landscapes, the grim myths and moods with the melancholic spirit. But instead the film, the music came along. One […]

The world’s metal scene is heavily loaded with side projects and secondary bands. In a somehow rough statistic ruling, it is quite obvious that most of them don’t elevate to the level of the whelping […]

Italy is known as one of the world’s leading melancholy capitals. It seems that even though the sunny existence of Pasta, Tuscany and the San Remo festival, the gloom is flowing and floating endlessly in […]

Oh, those were the days! When death metal bands roamed the earth, rolling in the halls of the technical institutes of the world, embarking on a quest to find and to prove that the genre […]

One of the highlights of being a writer in a music magazine is definitely the pleasure of acquaintance with new bands and artists, either market-fresh or as a late arrival to your personal encyclopedia. In […]

It begins in a forest, as shown on the cover; ever melancholic with white-purple pastels. A private place is this land of wood, where you can share yourself with sounds and set ablaze a peaceful, […]

Hardingrock is the lovechild of three ever-talented Norwegian musicians: Ihsahn, one of the landlords of black metal, Ihriel, mistress of Star of Ash and Peccatum and fiddler Knut Buen, known as Grimen. They illustrate Norwegian […]

Geasa creates a rather unique mélange of black metal and Irish-driven melodies. So far, quite banal. However, what makes this combination more close to the border, is the heavy wave of gothic rock which lies […]