It’s tempting… I am about to use tons of metaphors and comparisons to describe BtBaM’s music. Yet, I won’t. I won’t be tempted to list the bands that BtBaM reminds me of, and I won’t […]

I was wondering what Krauts would sound like that can be found in the ‘Kielwasser’ of Avantgarde Metal. ‘Kielwasser’ is a German word for ‘wake’. ‘Kiel’ (which is also a German city) is a nautical […]

Beyond any generic definition, this is extreme. Extreme metal, extreme music, extreme humanity. Although the impression given at times, of gauntness and plainness of black metal, Bethlehem’s music contains the most fragile and utter low […]

Betlehem’s masterpiece “Sardonischer Untergang im Zeichen irreligiöser Darbietung” (in short: S.U.I.Z.I.D.) from 1997 is one of the strangest spawns, which ever arose from the German extreme metal underground. Thousands of bands (not worth the bytes […]

What’s this? Avantgarde-Pagan-Metal? Can’t be! That’s what I thought when I read the description for a new BERGTHRON-album. The former albums of one of the – at least in my humble opinion – few interesting […]

The idea to invite the ghost into my tiny apartment came from out of nowhere, yet with deadly consequence. I prefer spectres and spirits to common folk, at least as long they have manners. The […]

When one begins his departure towards death, this journey is bound to open in deep silence, of reckonings to come. Cleaning mind and soul is highly necessary before diving into this faraway yet incredibly close […]

As someone who has heard many a strange band in my time, there are few who can make me sit up and really think “Okay, what the hell just happened there?”. Behold…The Arctopus are one […]

“Blood on Ice” is one of the essential metal albums, being both the termination point of black metal and the beginning of Viking metal, years before either sound became full-fledged genres. Some might argue about […]

“Starfire Burning” was my first foray into the pulp fantasy universe of Bal-Sagoth. Somehow a college radio station in Las Vegas got a hold of a promo and put it into heavy late-night rotation. And […]