Tag Synthwave
Expectation is a heavy weight and a backstabbing bitch. Just in case you wondered… Right. Destroy is another project by Ville ‘V-KhaoZ’ Pallonen, the absolute master of all things synth in whatever he turns his hand to. His futuristic, decaying… Continue Reading →
Ok I knew nothing about them and frankly the bands the members are in are not, what you might call, haunts of mine. But the name and the vague descriptions kind of intrigued me so here we are. Spooky gothy… Continue Reading →
I absolutely bloody loved Priest’s last album ,2022’s Body Machine. It’s mix of cheesy 80’s synthwave and gothic noir was right up my neon lit alley. It featured in my top ten of the year and fuelled many a late… Continue Reading →
To say I was rather taken with my introduction to one-man project Gost with Possessor is putting it mildly. And the follow up Malediction was equally impressive; James Lollar had managed to craft a unique being from the cloth of… 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 →
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 →
Until today I never knew that such a thing existed. A perfect melding of 80’s horror synth and grisly Death/Grind that when activated produces one of the silliest and most heart warming spectacles that any self respecting gore fiend could… Continue Reading →
Nighted made me feel old. The intro to ‘Aeons’ the first offering is distorted electronica which plunges into a hellbent riff and suddenly I’m back to early Necromantia circa Scarlet Evil Witching Black; great driving black metal with weird electronic… 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 →
If you are one of those people that organise all your discs by genre, this one is going to really screw you up. It might at first seem an easy task as the act helmed by ex Machetezo and current… Continue Reading →
Ghost is a name many will be familiar with as the famed hard rock/doom metal band from Linköping Sweden, who have been around for over a decade. Since their 2010 debut record, the band have gone through many personnel changes… Continue Reading →
I admit I jumped on this when it showed up: Billed as a one-time only project, this is Perturbator collaborating with Cult Of Luna’s Johannes Persson which to me just sounded potentially brilliant. So, not sure what it would be… Continue Reading →