Svartsyn – The True Legend Review
Well, this certainly is a queer thing. Sweden’s Svartsyn has long been an exceedingly peripheral member of the nation’s embarrassment of black metal riches. Despite becoming somewhat transparently enamored of the ‘orthodox’ black metal zeitgeist …
Inverloch – Dusk… Subside Review
Australia’s pioneering dISEMBOWELMENT is still spoken of in hushed and reverent tones for a simple reason: The band’s sole album, 1993’s Transcendence into the Peripheral, is an unmatched clinic in woozily beautiful primordial doom/death metal. …
Secrets Of The Moon – Seven Bells Review
The mind of the hopelessly obsessive music fan cannot help but search for hidden connections, shared trajectories, the limnal algebra of an ever-expanding dendritic web. For our current purposes, two of Germany’s most deliberately reverent …
Fungus Inc. – Gettin’ Drunk & Spreadin’ Spunk Review
If there is one thing to be said about Fungus Inc.’s Gettin’ Drunk & Spreadin’ Spunk, it’s that these Belgian boys know what they’re doing. However, if there are two things to be said about …
Reverse Polarity – Autechre Attacks
This month’s installment of Reverse Polarity takes a look at true electronic music pioneers – the British duo of Sean Booth and Rob Brown, otherwise known as Autechre. Unlike fellow electronic music inductees Venetian Snares, there is nothing particularly …
Graveyard – The Altar Of Sculpted Skulls Review
Death metal’s basically the same thing as poetry, right? Different schools, geographic origins, minor stylistic innovations over time, and a handful of strict compositional rules — artful words on a page, angry notes in the …
Hellsaw – Trist Review
Austria’s Hellsaw is the highly melodic black metal project of Horned Almighty guitarist Aries, and with its fourth album Trist, the band has perfected a pleasant but wholly inoffensive type of Goldilocks black metal: everything …
Sigh – In Somniphobia Review
At the risk of making the most colossal understatement of the century, it’s important to point out from the start that Sigh is a rather odd band. No, scratch that: Sigh is a head-spinning, reason-defying, …