Articles by Tentakel P.

Founded in 1989 by Mirai, Satoshi and Kazuki (Who was soon to be replaced by Shinichi), SIGH became – and not only due to lack of other contestants – one of the best known Black-Metal […]

I’ve delayed the review of this album for quite some time, I have to say to my shame. Listening to it once again I find myself asking why – actually, SAVNOCK’s “Theophany” album – consisting […]

No new album here (thanks, Suleiman, for the tip), but a kind of Best-Of/Remix/Unreleased material collection. This is my first conscious encounter with RED HARVEST – a band I have culpably neglected up until now […]

PICA FIERCE are a band from Norway, formed in 1999 and, as far as my researches have led me, have been and are not involved in any other band. There is always one more surprise […]

This autumn has been fruitful for Metal. Not exactly for its avantgarde-moments, true – but the new albums of BEHEMOTH, IMMORTAL, NILE and DARK FUNERAL did put an end to my non-metal mood of the […]

This time, and maybe only this time, I took the “Avantgenre” labelling from the official promo sheet instead of inventing something. “Biomechanical Disturbance metal” – that is how the band calls their music and it […]

Quite a little surprise we have here with MENCEA fro Greece. Never heard of them before, which is not really surprising considering the fact that this is their debut album. The promo sheet promises, as […]

WARNING: Don’t read this review any further because it will only devour time you could spend listening to “Merkur” instead. The guys from KLABAUTAMANN have forced me into a very, very difficult position here. It […]

I am following the development of this band for quite some time now, since their first album. And what a development it has been. KEEP OF KALESSIN have, after two, well, “nice” but mediocre albums, […]

If there still is anyone out there who does not know about Zeitgeister and their various projects, stop reading and return only until you have listened to a minimum of 5 of their outputs. Words […]