Articles by Oliver Side

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 […]

Since we have featured an interview with Norwegian multi-instrumentalist composer Bjeima in the past, this will permit me to avoid spreading unnecessary information about Yurei, one of his one-man bands. Hailing from Norway, this rather obscure project […]

From the shadowy wombs of expectation and no man’s land’s music, Kim Sølve’s projects have for a long time intrigued future fans from all over the world more than any concrete proof of their existence […]

Clair Cassis, the name itself, reminds me of some 19th century French wine from the deepest cave, or perhaps my ex-mistress’ haut de gamme perfume which she would wear only once my eyes had been delicately blindfolded. […]

For this never seen before review, I was joined by the grand, grand, little grandchild of the late Aleister Crowley, an underground magus and post-mentalist who goes by the name of Sir Julius Henry Crowley. […]