Reviews

What if you got on board both the genuine mastermind behind shoegaze noise doom band Nadja and the most inimitable noisician of emotive electricity Tim Hecker, and convinced them to investigate through the magick of occult wisdoms from […]

Etymology only rarely serves our truest purpose as a reviewer, which is basically to respect what we’re hearing in order to understand and feel, to the best of our bio-abilities, what it really is. In […]

Vamachara is a term derived from Sanskrit referring to the Left-hand path, and will from now on also refer to the third full-length of Greece’s ACHERONTAS. The band in turn have adopted the name after […]

Opening with “Beyond”, this is a mix of thrash and some more progressive moody influences (as in Nevermore) with just a dashing of eerie hardcore. The song thrashes, broods and does strange amalgamations of both. […]

Aaaaah !! Finally!! After reviewing all manners of insane sound forms that are often at the very edge of metal, here is one assigned to me that is as metal as beer, sacrificed virgins and […]

shat•ter verb \sha-ter\ Definition of “shatter” transitive verb 1 : to cause to drop or be dispersed 2 : a : to break at once into pieces b : to damage badly : ruin 3 […]

An ambitious project featuring Ivar Bjørnson and Grutle Kjellson (ENSLAVED), Maja S. K. Ratje and Hild S. Tafjord (Noise-project FE-MAIL) and some other musicians. Originally commissioned by the Rikskonsertene in Norway to do a concert […]

The darkness is palpable from the very beginning, as the crushing opening chords and venomous vocals give way to a haunting whispered section in the opener “No Visible Help (Hold Tight)”. This bleeds into a […]

TRAUMATIC VOYAGE, the nihilistic musical expressions of a shady German character called Astorian, is an alluring entity. The project commenced as early as 1986, and has repeatedly recorded and released albums since; Cogito Ergo Sum […]

There was a debate on this. Some deemed it brilliant and unique avant garde metal, while others (including myself initially) said it was another case of hype in an already saturated metal market. I gave […]