This album explores memory for its theme. Dementia being a terrifying thief of personality and experience that is affecting more and more of our aging population in the West. It is somewhat ironic that I had forgotten, until I searched… Continue Reading →
Wardruna are a project that exist in my peripheral vision. On a quick search through my Plex account on my phone I have just one album Runaljod- Yggdrasil and I have a vague recollection of enjoying it but evidently not… Continue Reading →
One of the band members equates the opening pieces of this album to differing and developing landscapes. I translate that as soundscapes. It’s evident that Virta’s self-proclaimed atmospheric and cinematic music is geared to working with sounds, hence I suppose… Continue Reading →
Modern cybergrind? The discovery of this album by Blind Equation out of Chicago suggests something colourful. What we’re being offered has influences in grind, atmospheric black metal, 8-bit electronics and Eurotrance. Quite a ride, then. Or as they have it,… Continue Reading →
Along with live drummer and keyboard player 2nd Face is primarily the project of German “sound magician” Vincent Uhlig and he has been solidifying the successor album to 2017 release ‘Nemesis’ over the last 5-years. Not having heard the project… 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 →
I do like getting odd things in the post with no accompanying explanation about them and at first I thought I had been sent a film here as it is presented in a DVD style case. On further exploration I… Continue Reading →
Last album ‘Phase IV’ from this Viennese based project really seemed to speak to me with its mixture of post rock and industrial rooted numbers. They were all of a lengthy running time and sprawled like soundscapes over wide vistas…. Continue Reading →
Thanks to this, I discovered what a thotcrime is, but sticking to the matter in hand the band by this name is a cybergrind group, taking its influence from grindcore, mathcore and hyperpop amongst others. When I saw this album’s… Continue Reading →
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