Articles by Oliver Side

REALITY ROCK ‘N’ ROLL! I’ve always enjoyed a dangerous car race or two at night, blame it on my unavoidable desire to die under the moon’s reflections. When for my birthday I received a new […]

Back from the ashes of ruins and cults, Menace Ruine will probably surprise many of their fans with their last album released by alien8 Recordings. The Die is Cast indeed conveys a completely different atmosphere than the […]

The other day (or night), I was visiting a new underground club in Montreal, and as soon as I asked the 8 feet tall Disc Jokey to play my Lusiferiinin Armosta album, these are some […]

Here comes a fresh new project from Circle and Pharaoh Overlord’s mastermind Jussi Lehtisalo, who now can be called only Krypt whenever he sings and plays guitars, bass and synths in Krypt Axeripper. I wouldn’t […]

Profound Lore Records are quite well-known by now for releasing some of the most daring bands in experimental metal, so I kinda met up with Barr and his delightful organ to challenge Pitchfork’s highly superficial Show No Mercy covering […]

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 […]