Tag Instrumental
Time, or at least the way we perceive it as passing, can be a strange old thing, and it’s something I’ve particularly noticed when listening to music. Sometimes it can seem to drag, indicating something is an unwelcome slog to… Continue Reading →
Blimey has it really been nine years since last album ‘Stern’? How time flies. Still one thing is assured, the Dutch instrumental groove metal act is one that once heard is never particularly forgotten. It’s a sound that I have… 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 →
The Ishtar Gate, mighty entrance to the inner circles of the near mythical city of Babylon, its construction ordered by King Nebuchadnezzar the Great two and half millennia ago was one of the wonders of the ancient world, and remains… Continue Reading →
In order to extend their range further at the core of what they call “complex instrumentation, huge, crowd-pleasing riffs and diverse poly-rhthms”, instrumental prog / mathrock band Poly-Math have added a saxophonist to their line-up for this album, their fourth… Continue Reading →
Two years ago, I reviewed Left Fallow the debut album of post metal band Ryr from Berlin, Germany. From my perspective, the perspective of having listened to a lot of post rock and post metal, it sounded generic, too much… Continue Reading →
Blimey, it’s been a while since we faced the sea of darkness that is Anima Morte. 2014 to be precise with 3rd album ‘Upon Darkened Stains.’ I have actually been playing their older discs recently, well it’s that time of… Continue Reading →
A trio of European instrumentalists comprise Behind Closed Doors. Add some strings, “ferocious heaviness as well as delicate tenderness” and that’s the recipe for this album. A mournful violin dirge is interrupted by an explosive djenty section. It’s an interesting… 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 →
The first 20 years of Bong-Ra’s existence were spent as a breakcore electronic music project. In recent years, founder Jason Köhnen (Celestial Season, The Answer Lies in the Black Void) has switched gears towards a more doom metal inspired sound…. Continue Reading →
There are times, when you have to reign yourself in, take yourself in hand (not like that), look yourself in the mirror and gaze deeply upon the very essence of your being, your soul, the very fibre that holds your… Continue Reading →
It’s time to step into the time machine with Morlock and back into an analogue world where strange synths were bringing futuristic soundscapes into the musical cosmos and crossing over into various genres from new-wave to prog. We are in… Continue Reading →