Reality – larger than mans illusions or is it me? (DHG) FIRST LISTENING SESSION: You just know when something belongs to the exceptional category. How exactly exceptional is this release? Is it an album capable to […]
Whenever I come across an album like this, a rare occurrence, initially I cannot help wondering whether it makes any sense to put it out into the world in the first place. The band from […]
Davide Tiso’s solo work is like a peep-show because it openly allows you to witness his incredibly spasmodic, almost entranced, guitar masturbations. And my impression is that he actually never comes: there is no final […]
Lunar Aurora certainly provided us with some of the most eventful, intense and emotional black metal to date and I was delighted to hear they were reforming. Their 2012 comeback album (minus Sindar, who went […]
MY EVIL YIN: I am rather peeved with Lifelover. First of all because when Kim Carlsson dances like a young self-mutilating Iggy Pop I get reminded of the old crone himself appearing topless on British […]
Marcelo’s mother died in dramatic circumstances when he was six. Whilst he had always felt different as he did not have a mother who would pick him up from school and so on, what he […]
As the portentous vortex of “Diotima” radiates into the soul as a flux of microwaves, I forget to breath. To “hear” in a quantum manner is attainable: the ear becomes the body and the sound […]
When I hopelessly fall in love with an album I usually need to share my naked emotions with the world: with Bildfänger I am almost tempted to keep them close to my chest. This work, […]
Infestus manifested itself from the ashes of German outfit Dunkelfront in 2006 but it was only two years later that it gained the attention of a wider audience with the second full-length “Chroniken des Ablebens”, […]
This album has been my subtle companion for a while now, caressing and soothing my soul at every spare hour. Submerged by its trembling, refulgent notes and honey-coated vocals, I knew I would have needed […]
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