Author Andrew Doherty
“Boredom ruins my life” screams the message in the album’s notes. With their disparate styles, Netra seem to be aiming at dispelling the boredom while reflecting it at the same time with their depictions of “fading nature and urban depression”…. Continue Reading →
“Yurei returns with a work venturing further into the weird”. This work of unlimited psychological self-expression and arguable insanity from the Norwegian artist Bjeima introduces a “parade of Dali-like creatures of the night: twisted, progressive, Lynchian tracks with hectic Balkan-inspired… Continue Reading →
“God Seed” is a track off Gorgoroth’s 2006 “Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloria” album. God Seed the band derive in part from Gorgoroth, comprising Gaahl and King ov Hell and other band members having associations with Trelldom, Grimfist and Dimmu Borgir…. Continue Reading →
This extremely dark work comes from France and is the first release by this band. I don’t know all of the bands with whom Void Paradigm has links, but I do know Wormfood who some years back released an extremely… Continue Reading →
I was very excited about this one – four bands that I like all painting musical pictures in different and unusual ways. It all hung on the live representation. I just hoped the sound in the venue was going… Continue Reading →
Looking into the credentials of this band, no secret is made of the fact that they come from the pop-rock sector. ESO is the offshoot of esOterica, whose music was on Radio 1 and Planet Rock amongst others. Apparently the… Continue Reading →
“All you will ever know is war” is the ominous message from the well-spoken orator on the atmospheric and gothic-sounding opener “As We March to the Fields of War”. Mr Tim Goatham’s project continues evocatively into a canvas of purposeful… Continue Reading →
The first thing I noticed when picking up this album was the sleeve cover’s similarity to Jurojin’s “The Living Measure of Time”. On a white background, a lipsticked statuesque lady in a veil looks heavenward. The mystery that this image… Continue Reading →
Here’s album number 4 from the Wolfskult gang from Germany and their brand of heavy folk-pagan metal. In fact “Guten Tag” seems like a continuation of “Wolfskult” (2011). At least the setting seems to be the same: a bunch of… Continue Reading →
Sunday was a cold and chilly day. Some Progpeople went for a run in the morning, while others just … chilled out. First up at the JC Sjiwa club today was Atlantis from the host country. An electro-ambient rhythm ran… Continue Reading →
Denmark’s Anubis Gate performed recently at ProgPower Europe 2012 following the release earlier in the year of their self-titled album, their 5th since 2001. While there, Andrew Doherty met Kim Olesen, guitarist and band member since the beginning. An… Continue Reading →
Normally at ProgPower many of the festival goers spend the Saturday and Sunday morning sitting in the courtyard of the splendid castle, chat, listen to music and generally recover from the night before. The rain came this year, so on… Continue Reading →