There are way too many records released every week - which one should you listen to? Why is the new Bruit the best record of the year? Which post-metal record is the dark-horse of the year? Questions that we want to answer - we review lots of records every week and you can also check out a little teaser before reading the whole thing. And if you want to, you can also browse through our archive and have a look at the amazing records you might have missed out on.
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German Black-Metal avantgardists try to pull off another amazing record - judge their success for yourself.
Continue reading >A trip back down memory lane, when we were searching ebay for interesting bands and they always mentioned DEP, C&C and Circa Survive as references for unclassifiable bands.
Continue reading >Indian Cinematic Post-Rock act Home Brewed Universe releases another highly seducing record. Long-lasting? Time will tell.
Continue reading >Charleville-Mezieres-based hardcore band Quietus has some of the most important ingredients - but all?
Continue reading >Switzerland is the new hotspot for good metal. Another example apart from the HUMMUS and HUC-communities? Apart from Rorcal, Death.Void.Terror? Easy, take Montecharge
Continue reading >When creating a minimalist album everything has to surrender the approach you take for such an album cannot simply “be made” - it needs a framework in order to make sense of itself. It is nothing you can simply do, right? Hell, no!
Continue reading >Try not to be pierced by the Belgian’s first release as it doesn’t want to make prisoners or hostages but only followers and fans.
Continue reading >Thuringia’s most interesting band is back with a set of songs that is riding the edge between the early modern times and the 21st century.
Continue reading >German Ambient-pioneers publish a kind of anthology with some new stuff. Worth it? Surely because of the good price and the great compilation!
Continue reading >“Old ways won’t open new doors.” Everybody can agree on that, probably. Maybe. Cemented Minds from Caen, France, certainly will.
Continue reading >Perihelion from Hungary is part of the vivid Hungarian scene around Hegy and Törzs - yet their post-metal is definitely more ambitious!
Continue reading >Keelrider shows two sides of Seattle-sound whose connection is long forgotten - Grunge and Stoner Rock.
Continue reading >Apocalyptica as a reference is not the best idea, but which reference should one give when the ensemble plays metal without an electric guitar - of course they can’t riff it out.
Continue reading >If a band is able to survive more than 20 years in a genre like Black Metal and publish eight full-lengths, then one should pay some respect to said band.
Continue reading >Occult Metal from Italy released on German Ván Records sounds promising? - Sure does!
Continue reading >Superbia, Avaritia, Luxuria, Invidia, Gula, Ira, Acedia. Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath, Sloth. The seven deadly sins.
Continue reading >Hamelin are another reason to follow Belgium’s Post-Metal scene as closely as possible - as proven by this very handsome release from 2019
Continue reading >A band that is as much Wardruna, Heilung and Tenhi as it is Boards of Canada, Plaid and Tim Hecker is definitely a very interesting idea.
Continue reading >MMDM is the abbreviation for an Italian Doom-Jazz-band whose latest release can keep up its end against all of the big ones of the genre.
Continue reading >Anonymous band collective from England releases a concept album about a dead African elephant that an old Nazi tried to bring back to life but that was then rescued by a female shaman who has her own plans for the creature.
Continue reading >Disclaimer: The following is not a review but a stream of consciousness caused by listening to Bersarin Quartett’s new record Methoden Und Maschinen
Continue reading >Swedish band Ofdrkkja releases an atmospherically dense Blackened-Folk-Metal that reminds one of why Agalloch or Wolves In The Throne Room are so great.
Continue reading >Cascades are falling down, a constant repetition of collapse. A motif found frequently in music, soundwise, in the lyrics or the music itself. Lots of artists from blackgaze to classical use it. Additionally it is found in visual arts or modern literature and over the last few decades has been connected to a critique of the present in order to change something about the future.
Continue reading >We are who we are. But we are also what we are made to be, this “what” can be a lot of things – our circle of friends, our job, our upbringing or also the place where we live. We are the way we are because where we are.
Continue reading >So, the most-awaited Death-Metal album of the year lives up to the hype around it - Blood Incantation is back!
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