MORD ‘A’ STIGMATA, a polish five-piece avantgarde occult black metal constellation from the city of Bochnia have been around for a couple of years, and have generated a number of demos and have released a […]

Whilst listening to this album I kept wondering about 2 things. First of all: what was the mood in the band when they were in the studio and recorded this album and second: what did […]

Opening with a majestic intro that shows the band to be clearly influenced by bombastic progressive hard rock, it explodes into the first song proper ‘Firefight’. This lies somewhere at a crossroads between hevy devy […]

Hello, kiddos! Let us take a trip back to the year 2007. Why this year in particular? Not because I’m nostalgic over my high school years, nor because I enjoyed President Bush and his candor. […]

If I were a gardener I would listen to this album constantly. I guess I would even get myself an ipod, upload this album and listen to it from the early morning, when inspecting 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 […]

Again the machinery rumbles. The malignant cogwheel pulses anew at rhythms undecipherable to ordinary human senses. Mechanical war-beasts somewhere between the ravaging monsters of the early VoïVod albums and the superhuman sterility of Kraftwerk’s Man-machines, […]

The sound of Meshuggah’s Catch 33 is often difficult to confine under a microscope, so let’s just use the three snakes on the cover as metaphors for concepts which the album resembles: 1) A black […]

Meshuggah is one of the few bands which music demands as high audial quality as possible. That is why I don’t frown at the thought of remixing, remastering, re-everything except writing an album released as […]

REALITY ROCK ‘N’ ROLL! I’ve always enjoyed a dangerous car race or two at night, blame it on my unavoidable desire to die under the moon’s reflections. When for my birthday I received a new […]