Sometimes, if not quite often, the heaviest obstacle for a decent and respectable listening to, and subsequent reviewing of, an album is not the music and visuals itself, but rather the blurb on the promotional […]
Wow!…..no, not “World of warcraft”, but a real “wow!”. Before I write anything about the “Body of pain” (Latin. doloris corpus) one has to be aware that France started giving us quite a lot of […]
“Fables of the Sleepless Empire” is the third album of the Canadian band UnExpect. To even try to label their musical style as anything other than the general term “avant garde metal” is futile. In […]
The mindblowing existence of unexpecT started 14 years ago – hard to imagine now – they just have two full-lengths and an EP. They released their first material as teenagers, it was Utopia, which featured a […]
In A Flesh Aquarium, the most emblematic album of the seven-piece musical, theatrical avant-garde group named unexpecT came out last year. The music of these freaks cannot be compared to any other band. It is […]
Supernatural psych-doom! Finland do many things extremely well. Ultra-filthy and harsh black metal and noise, ultra-cheesy and hideously melodic power metal, knife-fights and alcoholic binges, suicide, strange language… but most of all, DOOM. From THERGOTHON […]
The first thing that should grab you here should be the jaw-dropping artwork. It nails the alien- / sci-fi nature of most of Umbah’s body of work , but steps it up a notch much […]
The man’s proficiency knows no bounds. He is back with another amazing release, and to boot it could be his best work yet. Taking the bizarre twisting industrial extreme metal sound from his previous albums, […]
The second release from the insanity that is Umbah, this is more of the same yet with a difference. There is distinct chunkiness in the riffing, aligning this release closer to the death/thrash camp. Some […]
The first slice of insanity from a true underground pioneer, Umbah’s Continuum shines bright as a masterpiece of original metal mayhem. Basically a project of Cal Scott (ex-Necrosanct – who themselves set new standards in death / […]
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