Tag Jazz
One look at the cover art tells you immediately this is going to be one of those albums that will leave you puzzled after the first listen but will well and truly hit home on subsequent plays. As a one… Continue Reading →
This turned up rather than in digital format, presented in a lavish booklet with earthy water-coloured artwork and inside a booklet with some of the most gorgeous nature inspired paintings I have seen in many a moon. From here a… Continue Reading →
I like both progressive and post metal music, so as this, the fourth album from the US band Intronaut, is designated as “post-prog”, there was always going to be a good chance I’d like it. A bit of imagination helps… Continue Reading →
The progressive scene in Poland is very interesting. Spearheaded by Riverside and supported by excellent bands like Votum and Acute, here’s another one. In fact Disperse draw influence from Cynic, Dream Theater and Pink Floyd with this, their second album…. Continue Reading →
By way of preparation I had the pleasure of listening again to Dperd’s previous work “Io Sono Un Errore”. It is as moody and sultry a work as you could wish to hear. “Sleepy” was my wife’s description. I’d have… Continue Reading →
“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 →
Well I knew that nobody was likely to choose to do this one when it went out on the reviews list, I was kind of pleased really too as it was destined for me and I was well aware that… Continue Reading →
The sound of Diablo Swing Orchestra is unique. Comprising a panoply of styles including swing jazz, classical, mariachi, metal and much more, they then combine them to create a host of moods but above all entertainment and fun. Coinciding with… Continue Reading →
Deathspell Omega. Champions of the Emperor’s new clothes to some, grand innovators of occultist BM to others. 2007’s ‘Fas…’ always struck me as an almost impenetrably dense album, promising arcane wisdom but delivering only ecstatic dementia, sardonically laughing in the… Continue Reading →
The prog wizard who really should need absolutely no introduction is back with (solo) album number four. Again it has cover art that is completely naff and leaves me thinking huh what on earth is that all about? (Later I… Continue Reading →
Amongst the usual stuff I think about, recently there has been the question as to what we actually mean by extreme metal. I wonder because it seems to have been reduced to “has been known to use ‘death’ vocals.” In… Continue Reading →