Tag Instrumental
A trio of European instrumentalists comprise Behind Closed Doors. Add some strings, “ferocious heaviness as well as delicate tenderness” and that’s the recipe for this album. A mournful violin dirge is interrupted by an explosive djenty section. It’s an interesting… 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 →
The first 20 years of Bong-Ra’s existence were spent as a breakcore electronic music project. In recent years, founder Jason Köhnen (Celestial Season, The Answer Lies in the Black Void) has switched gears towards a more doom metal inspired sound…. Continue Reading →
There are times, when you have to reign yourself in, take yourself in hand (not like that), look yourself in the mirror and gaze deeply upon the very essence of your being, your soul, the very fibre that holds your… Continue Reading →
It’s time to step into the time machine with Morlock and back into an analogue world where strange synths were bringing futuristic soundscapes into the musical cosmos and crossing over into various genres from new-wave to prog. We are in… Continue Reading →
The fatal flaw and the downfall: this is Hamartia. The epic Greek mythological tale of Tantalus is the story behind this album. Through 70 minutes of instrumental progressive music, Noorvik have the task of telling it. Having previously reviewed their… Continue Reading →
The plus point about instrumental bands is that they have to be vivid in order to create images in our mind in the absence of lyrical explanation. It wasn’t entirely helpful therefore to read that during the creation of this… Continue Reading →
This album is the work of Slovenian instrumentalists Shadow Universe, whose promised offer is of a contrast between simmering ambient soundscapes and heavy anxious darkness. There’s certainly plenty of the latter going round in the world at the moment. It… Continue Reading →
Nice artwork. I like this sort of thing. I didn’t know of Endless Dive before this came my way but it’s evident that they are of an artistic persuasion, speaking of visualising the music and managing the intensity of the… Continue Reading →
Blimey! Has it really been four whole years since I last reviewed some new Earthless? A quick click or two (see Ave Noctum passim) confirms that this is sadly the case, specifically their rather excellent ‘Black Heaven’. Now, what the… Continue Reading →
Whilst stoner rock is a sub-genre of music that could have been created for the sake of instrumental albums, I mean, who wants all the hassle of like remembering lyrics man, such acts are very much in a minority. There… Continue Reading →
One person projects are de rigeur these days. No time for band members when you got the vision and skills. Instrumental? Of course – don’t need no shouty egotists to take me where I want to go. But …. a one man… Continue Reading →