Talking about noise here. If Tracy Chapman were taking Acid, had an affair with John Cale, a filthy threesome with John Cleese and that chick from Pirates of the Carribbean 3 and had to make […]

This has been one of the sickest ugliest and most depressing albums I have heard in the last few years. Whether it’s the concept, the execution or some combination thereof, I don’t know. All I […]

Florida has spawned many influential bands in its time. One of these many (and the greatest in this writer’s opinion) were Death/Fusion metal band, Cynic, who in turn spawned many bands of their own. Gordian […]

Evereve had the misfortune of releasing their first album in an age before the concept of avant-garde metal took off, that brief window in the mid-nineties when metal was starting to get its feet wet […]

Before I start writing how this is a great album, I would just like to state how much I hate circuses…not that it has much to do with this great band and album, but the […]

Behind a very different (yet still somewhat unreadable) logo that plays with both clean Greek letters and musical symbolism, lies ESSENZ. This three-piece German group came together in 2006, and after being picked up by […]

Escher’s Knot play a style that is familiar to some metal that’s already out there, yet maintains its own identity. They perform a progressive thrash style that relies largely on pummeling riffs and disjointed tempos.Tessellations draws from […]

Two men are sitting on a bench, apparently not knowing each other. Both of them are dressed up in black smokings. The first one (A) puts his right leg on top of his left knee. […]

Horns blare out introducing the chaotic presence that the band are able to portray and they manage to do so with a great effort. The music here is certainly busy and will take a refined […]

Ephel Duath is one of the few qualitative bands that I have discovered through an add in a magazine. “The Dillinger Escape Plan of black metal” the add said. Wrong. Ephel Duath left their Emperor-like […]