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• Porta Nigra - Schöpfungswut

  

  17 Jan 2020 - Thorsten
  Avantgarde-Black-Metal

  German Black-Metal avantgardists try to pull off another amazing record - judge their success for yourself.

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• TRAPS - The Fighter

  

  10 Jan 2020 - Thorsten
  Math-Core

  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.

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• Home Brewed Universe - The Time Thief

  

  08 Jan 2020 - Thorsten
  Synth-Post-Rock

  Indian Cinematic Post-Rock act Home Brewed Universe releases another highly seducing record. Long-lasting? Time will tell.

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• Quietus - Chaos Is Order Yet Undeciphered

  

  01 Jan 2020 - Thorsten
  Post-Hardcore

  Charleville-Mezieres-based hardcore band Quietus has some of the most important ingredients - but all?

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• Montecharge - Demons Or Someone Else

  

  27 Dec 2019 - Thorsten
  Industrial Post-Metal

  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

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• Michael Peters & Fabio Anile - Presence

  

  20 Dec 2019 - Thorsten
  Minimalist-Ambient

  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!

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• Growing Horns - The Nobility of Pain

  

  19 Dec 2019 - Thorsten
  Sludge

  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.

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• Mosaic - Secret Ambrosian Fire

  

  13 Dec 2019 - Thorsten
  Blackened-Medieval-Ambient

  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.

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• Collapse Under The Empire - The End Of Something (Box-Set)

  

  13 Dec 2019 - Thorsten
  Drone-Ambient

  German Ambient-pioneers publish a kind of anthology with some new stuff. Worth it? Surely because of the good price and the great compilation!

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• Cemented Minds - Colostrum

  

  13 Dec 2019 - Thorsten
  Post-Punk

  “Old ways won’t open new doors.” Everybody can agree on that, probably. Maybe. Cemented Minds from Caen, France, certainly will.

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• Perihelion - Agg

  

  06 Dec 2019 - Thorsten
  Avantgarde-Post-Metal

  Perihelion from Hungary is part of the vivid Hungarian scene around Hegy and Törzs - yet their post-metal is definitely more ambitious!

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• Keelrider - Sun / Too Far Gone (short review)

  

  06 Dec 2019 - Thorsten
  Stoner-Grunge

  Keelrider shows two sides of Seattle-sound whose connection is long forgotten - Grunge and Stoner Rock.

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• Hvile I Kaos - Black Morning Winter Green

  

  06 Dec 2019 - Thorsten
  Blackened-Ritual-Chamber-Music

  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.

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• Crest of Darkness - The God Of Flesh

  

  06 Dec 2019 - Thorsten
  Black-Metal

  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.

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• Caronte - Wolves Of Thelema

  

  06 Dec 2019 - Thorsten
  Doomy-Occult-Metal

  Occult Metal from Italy released on German Ván Records sounds promising? - Sure does!

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• Saligia - Vesaevus

  

  30 Nov 2019 - Thorsten
  Black-Metal

  Superbia, Avaritia, Luxuria, Invidia, Gula, Ira, Acedia. Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath, Sloth. The seven deadly sins.

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• Hamelin - dto.

  

  30 Nov 2019 - Thorsten
  Atmospheric Post-Metal

  Hamelin are another reason to follow Belgium’s Post-Metal scene as closely as possible - as proven by this very handsome release from 2019

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• Osi And The Jupiter - Nordlige Rúnaskog

  

  29 Nov 2019 - Thorsten
  Pagan-Ambient

  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.

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• Macelleria Mobile Di Mezzanotte - Noir Jazz Femdom

  

  29 Nov 2019 - Thorsten
  Doomy-Jazz-Drone

  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.

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• Bull Elephant - Dto.

  

  29 Nov 2019 - Thorsten
  Sludge-Post-Rock

  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.

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• Bersarin Quartett - Methoden Und Maschinen

  

  29 Nov 2019 - Thorsten
  Ambient

  Disclaimer: The following is not a review but a stream of consciousness caused by listening to Bersarin Quartett’s new record Methoden Und Maschinen

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• Ofdrkkja - Gryningsvisor

  

  25 Nov 2019 - Thorsten
  Folk-Black-Metal

  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.

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• Lunacy - Age Of Truth

  

  22 Nov 2019 - Thorsten
  Ambient-Drone

  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.

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• Luggage - Shift

  

  22 Nov 2019 - Thorsten
  Noise

  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.

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• Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race

  

  22 Nov 2019 - Thorsten
  Progressive-Death-Metal

  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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