First of all, Animal Alpha don’t make typical avantgarde-metal music. So if you, dear reader, don’t listen to anything else, if you’re not at least a little openminded, you can stop reading this review right […]

“Des Winters finsterer Gesell” tells the dark story of Der Finsterer Gesell, a bitter misanthrope who wanders from homestead to homestead in the Alps in the dead of winter, murdering their inhabitants. The music, often […]

A famous Queen Song chants, “It’s a kind of magic”. This is the very adequate expression to deliver the impression of Angizia’s music. It takes a lifetime to describe a world. It takes an unbelievable […]

When I first listened to a song of this beautiful novella I felt a little bit messed up. I thought about Middle Age Fun Metal or the alike. But from another angle of view I […]

Five years after the release of the latest full length record “A Natural Disaster”, England’s (most?) atmospheric rock band Anathema returns with a compilation album somewhere between the aesthetic approach of the “unplugged” sessions and […]

So, progressive metal. A lot can be said about this genre, and comments tend to be cut from either the “You just don’t get it” bunch or the “It’s a load of highly skilled musicians […]

Anaal Nathrakh, the dirty baby of Englishmen Mick Kenney and Dave Hunt, is all about fusion. Fusion of the rotten, the cold and the filthy, into a pile of infested scum and litter, encrusted with […]

We’ve seen Amorphis go through a lot of changes and they’ve finally completely immersed themselves in their newer sound with this work. We can see a more mature band at this point show they can play a […]

Through a panoramic view of the world’s folk metal scene, one can recognize most of the bands under the umbrella organization known as ‘Scandinavia”. A reasonable explanation to this phenomenon can be found in the […]

“C’est parce que nous sommes tous des imposteurs que nous nous supportons les uns les autres. Tel qui n’accepterait pas de mentir verrait la terre fuir sous ses pieds: nous sommes biologiquement astreints au faux. […]