Tag Instrumental
Oscillating Forest is the third of altogether four full-length albums by Australians Tangled Thoughts of Leaving that I have reviewed. Having also seen them live once, one could say that I’m well familiar with the band and their output. Their… Continue Reading →
What is exactly is the relationship between the artist and the audience? Does either owe the other anything? When I was young and full of fire and self-righteous opinions, Cold Lake and One Second felt like betrayals. Of course they… Continue Reading →
Icelandic Black metal is back with another epic soundscape of blackened majestic, thought-provoking, epic musical scores courtesy of composer, multi-instrumentalist and sole member of Oreida, Thor. ‘The Eternal’ is constructed of five grand and contemplative tracks, each one delivering the… Continue Reading →
Whilst in the world of classical music, instrumental pieces are the norm, in the rock genre it can be a hard thing to pull off. There is a pretty much programmed expectation in the listener of ‘verse, chorus, verse’, as… Continue Reading →
Having been around since 2012, Parisian djent practitioners Stömb, seem to have flown under the radar in terms of the scant availability of anything really concrete about the band aside from a handful of reviews and an under-construction website that… Continue Reading →
Time, or at least the way we perceive it as passing, can be a strange old thing, and it’s something I’ve particularly noticed when listening to music. Sometimes it can seem to drag, indicating something is an unwelcome slog to… Continue Reading →
Blimey has it really been nine years since last album ‘Stern’? How time flies. Still one thing is assured, the Dutch instrumental groove metal act is one that once heard is never particularly forgotten. It’s a sound that I have… Continue Reading →
Alain Leonard + Alex Wank’s LAWA are back with the promised sister release to ‘Manipulation’. Instrumental sound exploration through a variety of genres is the method here and like its companion piece the ‘mega synthesists’ at the helm of the… Continue Reading →
The Ishtar Gate, mighty entrance to the inner circles of the near mythical city of Babylon, its construction ordered by King Nebuchadnezzar the Great two and half millennia ago was one of the wonders of the ancient world, and remains… Continue Reading →
In order to extend their range further at the core of what they call “complex instrumentation, huge, crowd-pleasing riffs and diverse poly-rhthms”, instrumental prog / mathrock band Poly-Math have added a saxophonist to their line-up for this album, their fourth… Continue Reading →
Two years ago, I reviewed Left Fallow the debut album of post metal band Ryr from Berlin, Germany. From my perspective, the perspective of having listened to a lot of post rock and post metal, it sounded generic, too much… Continue Reading →
Blimey, it’s been a while since we faced the sea of darkness that is Anima Morte. 2014 to be precise with 3rd album ‘Upon Darkened Stains.’ I have actually been playing their older discs recently, well it’s that time of… Continue Reading →