Articles by Thor Joakimsson

This is a strange record, really. Most of its content isn’t exactly new, and after some years in wait this ugly disc has been tuned a bit and finally published, yet it wasn’t released to […]

The fiery celebration Of a unique band and a brotherhood And their 13 year long journey Into the unknown” (So says the under title of the DVD) A while ago a Swedish musician told me […]

How black has the humor of these infamous musicians turned if they name their bastard band a decrepit spectre? Is this ghost which is rumored to diffuse terrifying musical schemes already to feeble to throw […]

For lifetimes pantomime transformed into a parade of mountains delivered from the golden doctrines allowed the bleed… …Bleed to MYTH. If there was a band in the early Nineties that dismantled the borders of the […]

The idea to invite the ghost into my tiny apartment came from out of nowhere, yet with deadly consequence. I prefer spectres and spirits to common folk, at least as long they have manners. The […]

-Thor Joakimsson  VITALS: Release:  2010Label:  Kreisel Kreisel RecordsAvantgenre:  Atmospheric Post Metal / RockDuration:  Two Long SongsOrigin:  Cologne / GermanyOfficial site:  http://www.myspace.com/arktikapunk Review online since:  10.11.2010 / 16:18:40 TRACKLIST: 01 – Heartwrencher 02 – The Rest Of Your Life

Five years after the release of the latest full length record “A Natural Disaster”, England’s (most?) atmospheric rock band Anathema returns with a compilation album somewhere between the aesthetic approach of the “unplugged” sessions and […]

This mini-album received quite a lot of praise since its release and in fact AENAON from Greece demonstrate a more than solid potential with their skill- and powerful interpretation of modern Norwegian extreme metal. Norwegian? […]

Cutback: The early nineties (back then far less legendary than nowadays widely acclaimed, but a time of development and discovery). In the tiny heavy metal section of a small record shop a gangly boy spots […]