black metal \ Canada \ duck black metal \ dusktone \ post-black metal \ Stellar Descent \ wait WTF seriously?
What is a risk? The easy answer is something, anything, where one takes a chance equaling failure or reward. The complex answer is either possibility is due to the application of the idea itself. What do we mean? Well, let’s elaborate. In these times when music is so easy to create, not necessarily well, and […]
Aderlating \ all of that \ Black Plagve Productions \ dark industrial \ death industrial \ horror \ Maurice De Jong \ Mories \ terror
One has to wonder if composers from the classical period were alive, what exactly would they be doing? If they were born in the modern era, where would they be today? What kind of music would they be making? Avoid things of the popular, its analogies are fruitless, because in spite of what that music […]
apply cold water \ Brazil \ Caligari Records \ cassette \ crust \ Disterror \ doom \ doom metal \ funeral \ Heavydeath \ Jupiterian \ Label Exposed \ Lung Molde \ Mexico \ stoner \ The Unquiet Grave \ thrash
Well, it’s been awhile since we did one of these, in fact back before the new site became active, so it has to have been about three or four years now. And what a fitting reunion! We have here, that’s right, a label exposure for Caligari Records, owned and run by the former owner/editor of […]
Aluk Todolo \ France \ living black hole \ Norma Evangelium Diaboli \ occult rock \ The Anja Offensive
It’s impossible to find a proper way of starting this, but others have tried, with pathetic results. Calling Aluk Todolo, direct quote, “an autistic version of Wolves in the Throne Room” is offensive. Not to the autistic, or to Wolves in the Throne Room, but to music criticism. That was the best you could do? […]
France \ Les Acteurs de L'Ombre Productions \ like seriously why are they so very good \ post-black metal \ post-hardcore \ Regarde les Hommes Tomber
Some people consider us elusive, others bizarre and unnecessary. Whatever we may be, we always make sure to regard the worst with the most foully derisive of language, and the best with the most confusing of personal journeys through minds that, strangely, have never touched a single narcotic. Writers who amaze with their unusual prose […]