Articles by Oliver Side

Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink … As some of you already know, from 1995 to 1998, a completely unique Austrian band was making strange musical shapes with such an unusual twist […]

Flies are the Cameras of God. Invisibly connected to the intertemporary Frequence of their collective Data-Memory, they are watching from every Corner since Millions of Years, dragging all Seen within them, and if we dare […]

From Sacramento, California, comes the ever-changing art of a very daring band, I’m indeed speaking of Hella. Mind you, There’s no 666 in Outer Space, released on Patton’s Ipecac Recordings, was my first real exposure […]

Out of the blue, William Kopecky (bass, vox, delirium) and Dimitar Dimitrov (electronics, vox, hallucinogens) aka Haiku Funeral surprise fans of dark experimental music with an album fusing primitive and dirty black occultism with elements […]

Lately, I’ve been known to look into the marriage of chemical drugs with musical avant-gardism. Although I will not paint myself in that corner for too long, I can only be interested by an artist […]

An old one from the trash bin. From silence it speaks. * What happens when an internationally recognized avant-garde music composer and sound artist, who has never before nor after released anything Metal-related, decides to […]

A new vision to behold! A new whisper from ancient configurations! The master of hallucinogenic poisons and herbs has grown out of the earth’s deepest labyrinths once more… It is quite refreshing to welcome back […]

Now let’s talk of woody wolf black in the forest trance-inducing floating metal. The German band Ekpyrosis have just released their Mensch Aus Gold – the golden man, or the man made of gold – and are […]

Everybody, welcome to a unique event in the world of dark music, as Czral the man with dancing hands comes back from the tomb to disharmonize grooves and to unbend spiky sputniks. So many things […]

Ved Buens Ende fanatics always knew how much potential Carl-Michael Eide had as an experimental metal composer. Even though he was only credited as being the drummer and vocalist of that band, it’s now clear […]