Tag avant-garde
The misery of Western big city life can be observed in many towns all over the Western world, but statistics are nowhere more damning than for the Scottish metropolis of Glasgow. Due to the Glasgow Effect, a rather neutral term… Continue Reading →
This is Imperial Triumphant’s fifth album and I confess that till now I didn’t know any of them. Looking at their cv, I was surprised as a varied approach to metal with a later tendency to an avant-garde technical black… Continue Reading →
What a band name, try saying it without your teeth in and your jaw will lock and you will be eating through a straw for the next couple of months. Jokes aside these 2 Finns and a Swiss man consist… Continue Reading →
Anybody up for some ‘circus-metal-prog-folk-rock’? Well, I’m not sure we were and the other writers have gone out of their way to avoid this one like thee plague, but that is what we have got and it comes down to… Continue Reading →
If a band’s looking for a selling point, this is it “This is not elevator music”. That’s their words. They go on: “Trying to perform menial tasks while listening to this album will turn your brain into scrambled eggs”. This… Continue Reading →
I have never been to Appalachia or rural Pennsylvania, but as of lately there has been no shortage of movies and documentaries informing the public about the region’s shocking poverty, its decaying towns, its peculiar variant of Christian belief, and… Continue Reading →
Always searching for that perfect Thy Catafalque release? An exquisite mix of blissful electronica highs, melancholy folk and extreme metal intensity? Preferably all audaciously combined in each and every track with a bit of lounge jazz thrown in for good… Continue Reading →
It seems perfect timing that a week or so after covering one bunch of English eccentrics Void that it is the turn of another, Code now. Both groups started out in similar fashion and indeed there was a crossover point… Continue Reading →
There’s something in the air around Utrecht in the Netherlands. It has spawned Laster, Verval, Nusquama and now Grey Aura. Active since 2010, “Zwart Vierkant” (Black Square) is the atmospheric black metal band’s second album following the snappily titled 2014… Continue Reading →
Born out of Dodecahedron, Dutch band Autarkh play “contemporary extreme metal”, reflecting the members’ backgrounds which range from metal to techno. The opening is dark, spooky and somewhere between industrial and cosmic. Unsurprisingly this leads into “Turbulence”, a darkly industrial… Continue Reading →
Dark Essence Records is a Norwegian label that specialises in extreme and black metal, sounds beloved of those wearers of corpse-paint, but subgenres of the music I love that really do not float my boat. As such, for me to… Continue Reading →
This is Ad Nauseam’s second album following their 2015 debut “Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est”. This technical death metal band from Italy has been going for 18 or so years, having previously been called Death Heaven and before that Kaos…. Continue Reading →