Tag Electronica
Along with live drummer and keyboard player 2nd Face is primarily the project of German “sound magician” Vincent Uhlig and he has been solidifying the successor album to 2017 release ‘Nemesis’ over the last 5-years. Not having heard the project… Continue Reading →
Sometimes you just need a change of scenery when it comes to music. Predominantly dealing with thrash, stoner/doom and death metal can tire you out despite how much you enjoy what you are listening to, and this is where the… Continue Reading →
I do like getting odd things in the post with no accompanying explanation about them and at first I thought I had been sent a film here as it is presented in a DVD style case. On further exploration I… Continue Reading →
This album is a live recording from January of this year of a concert from the Akusmata Polyphonic Festival at Vuotalo, a cultural centre in Helsinki. Tottumiskysymys are known for their electronic and experimental soundscapes and improvisations. The two previous… Continue Reading →
Last album ‘Phase IV’ from this Viennese based project really seemed to speak to me with its mixture of post rock and industrial rooted numbers. They were all of a lengthy running time and sprawled like soundscapes over wide vistas…. Continue Reading →
Thanks to this, I discovered what a thotcrime is, but sticking to the matter in hand the band by this name is a cybergrind group, taking its influence from grindcore, mathcore and hyperpop amongst others. When I saw this album’s… Continue Reading →
Forget the collaboration between Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran. You probably have forgotten already. Here’s the real dream team: [ówt krì] and Pigments. These masters of electronic sound art from Finland have come together for this work. The dream may… Continue Reading →
The duo of Austrian “mega synthesists” who manipulate their names into LAWA are Alain Leonard and Alex Wank. Here they are back with the first in a two-part album series which they have classed as an “electronic nightmare”. There is… Continue Reading →
And once again you never know what you’ll get with an Aesthetic Death release but it will be different. And this album by the Finnish Vaina is certainly that. Amusingly their entry on Metal Archives just says black metal. Um…. Continue Reading →
I’ve most likely touched on it many times before but music for sleep is very important to me. I love putting on Post-Rock, Ambient and even Noise to sleep to, it soothes my soul and means that I can get… Continue Reading →
Every time I review or give radio airplay to a project by Shane Embury I make some cliched comment about him being the busiest and most prolific artist in heavy music. The problem with cliches is that they care created by truths a lot of… Continue Reading →
Niklas Sundin returns once more with his vast array of musical ideas which finally see the light of day. Having previously covered both Mitochondrial Sun releases; the self titled debut and the intense ‘Sju pulsarer’, EP release, “Bodies And Gold”… Continue Reading →