Tag: Owl

Best Of 2024 – Dan Obstkrieg: A Blazing Ruthless Love
Sainted friends and lovers, it has been a year. But, you know this, right? You feel it. Things are everywhere just a little out of joint. Like me, though, maybe you’re mostly here to see …

Best Of 2024 – Zach Duvall: Gorge Thyselves On Goop
Hello and greetings, friends and frenemies, and welcome to my personal rundown of heavy music in 2024. I think this year we’re going to mostly dive right into things instead of spending a lengthy amount …

Best Of 2024 – Top 10ish EPs & Demos
Hello and welcome back to yet another Last Rites List Season (copyright pending). Today we present our annual delve into our favorites of The Short Stuff: extended plays (that’s what EP stands for), 7-inch splits, …

Owl – Ghosts Of Summer Review
Bonn, Germany’s Owl has spent more than a decade exploring the spectrum between extremely heavy doom/death and spaced out ambience, with most releases blending the two to a certain extent. Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Christian Kolf …

An Interview With Christian Kolf Of Owl & Valborg
Christian Kolf has been in a whole bunch of bands, with none more important than the work he’s produced with Owl and Valborg. 2017 saw Valborg release Endstrand to much acclaim (especially here at Last …

Best Of 2018 – Zach Duvall: Confessions Of A Cornfed Crackpot
Greetings, you husks. This year, instead of some State of the Scene Address, we’re going to talk about consensus in music fandom, and how it doesn’t really exist. Yes, seeing the same albums top every …

Owl – Nights In Distortion
Over the course of a couple full lengths and several EPs, Germany’s Owl has delivered a blend of synth-heavy ambient and dark, morose doom/death, never twice bringing the same mix or balance of the band’s …

Fast Rites – Volume 5
Football, shmootball. The Cubs have gone down in flames, thereby proving that Back To The Future Part II is a work of fiction. Here are a few albums, both good and bad, for Cub fans to slit their …