Reviews

Soaring slowly, blissfully, high above desolate landscapes. A parking lot covered with water. A drained swimming pool in a garden overgrown with weeds. Mankind left, and nature encroaches, unhindered. The sounds of civilization silently collapsing, […]

I was walking back to the parking lot where I usually leave my car. A free parking lot, away from the city center. Once there, I clearly heard a phone ringing. A high-pitched, vibrant ringing, […]

One of the highlights of being a writer in a music magazine is definitely the pleasure of acquaintance with new bands and artists, either market-fresh or as a late arrival to your personal encyclopedia. In […]

There’s a man, tormenting me each time I look at myself in the mirror. He dresses well, with a white bow tie and a black suite. He has no face, or at least I can’t […]

OK. I took this promo on in an idealistic attempt to widen the concept of this site, from a focus on what we arbitrarily consider appropriate, to a full survey of every band that consider […]

MY EVIL YIN: I am rather peeved with Lifelover. First of all because when Kim Carlsson dances like a young self-mutilating Iggy Pop I get reminded of the old crone himself appearing topless on British […]

This album rules. Seriously. The band members have got cool names and the music is from beyond evil. I wish I had the PA of Motörhead to listen to this aggregation of everything in all […]

As rumour has it, this album originally came with a pill (!) called “Zopiklon”. Some minor research suggests it is a sleeping pill. Of course taking pills is something everybody should not do so it […]

For me Leviathan is the reason why I still can enjoy Black Metal. Well, “enjoy” might be the wrong term. I enjoy a plate of spaghetti or the company of friends. Maybe reverence is a […]

If there is one thing the French are delightfully capable of doing, it’s combining their extreme metal with a sense of atonal and experimental dementia, uncompromising dedication and an indecent air of depravity. MÜTIILATION and […]