Articles by Mystery Flame

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 […]

Eisenwald, home of old sorcerers like Nazxul, young defenders of “true BM” like Aurvandil or arty realists such as Formloff just to name a couple, is a great label run independently and with pure passion. […]

I am not the first person to say this, but when one gets acquainted with the Catalans, ever more so if on a personal level, one cannot help becoming a little partial towards Foscor. The […]

Fen’s third work, without giving up on a single soul-shattering, sorrowful shudder, tightens the nuts and bolts of its compositional scaffolding to achieve a starker mood. The more blustery side of their musical architecture is […]

How many times do we fall madly in love with an album for its immediate appeal (according to our own personal criteria), then it ends up as nothing more than a pleasant yet distant memory? […]

Since 1998 new unexpected discoveries (the universe expanding at an accelerate rate; antimatter is vastly predominant over matter; the asymmetry of left-handed neutrinos; and possibly the superluminal neutrino measured by CERN recently?) have indicated that […]

I have been following Enslaved since their 1993 split with Emperor. At the time it was the latter band who excited me the most (“I am the Wizards” still remains sculpted in my subconscious), but […]

The kaleidoscopic aural assault of the Germans is an apotheosis of fresh and captivating blackened avant-garde metal. The listener becomes tightly engaged in a dramatic journey through the haphazard evolution of a little planet in […]

Let’s be honest, some – if not most – fans have been waiting for this release as confirmation that the true incarnation of the original Negura Bunget project is to be found here rather than […]