Sbrodj is a region of the fictional kingdom of Syldavia. There is a shuttle base in that region or something, I think, from where Tintin took a trip to the Moon. There, in the Moon, is where Dan Swanö must have […]

How anti-avant-garde can metal become? Listen to Kampfar’s new album “Heimgang” and you’ll get a dubiously perfect idea! The title nearly says it all: Kampfar is on its “Heimgang”, way back into “Skogens Dyp” (song […]

When I hopelessly fall in love with an album I usually need to share my naked emotions with the world: with Bildfänger I am almost tempted to keep them close to my chest. This work, […]

Sometimes an album earns sympathy credits before listening and that’s exactly the case with Italian based instrumental duo KAILASH. Already the band name sounds rather unusual, the at first sight illogical album title hints at […]

Seeing Japan from the perspective of entertainment, three significant forms will appear. One of them is the animation movie, the other one is the horror film industry. And the third one is music which is […]

Johann Wolfgang Pozoj Pozoj. Lost. Eternal. Tragic. Pozoj, a mythological creature, a dragon. In Indo-European mythologies it sleeps among the roots of the world tree, in the underground, he is connected with water. Up, amongst […]

The prolific Justin Broadrick may well be one of the most influential men in the world of metal. Helping forge a path for Grindcore with his work with the infamous Napalm Death, pioneering Industrial Metal […]

Right now, the music-listening public is infatuated with prefixed genres like “post rock” and “post metal,” further complicating the once easy task of usefully labeling music. Jesu, along with the current crop of heavy Anglo-American […]

Who would have thought that one day a founding member of Napalm Death would create something so pleasant? Despite its tough metal title, “Conqueror” is actually comparatively subdued next to the bone-crushing weight of the […]

If there still is anyone out there who does not know about Zeitgeister and their various projects, stop reading and return only until you have listened to a minimum of 5 of their outputs. Words […]