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Ahab – The Giant
I was taken aback when I first saw the cover art for Ahab’s The Giant. Abandoning their past penchant for dramatic and evocative maritime paintings, the band have opted for a much brighter and almost...
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GOG – In Our Architecture This Resounds
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. ‘In Our Architecture This Resounds’ is the most aptly succinct album title I’ve come across in a while. An atlas of an album that drags...
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Evoken – Atra Mors
“Grim death coming with his cruel sickle…” There’s a saying that “the captain always goes down with his ship”. In this case, however, it’s as though the captain has thrown himself overboard, leaving...
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Label Spotlight IV: Daemon Worship Productions
Black Metal should challenge. For only through challenge can progress be achieved. As essential and interesting as the continually churning maw of experimentation in extreme metal is, orthodoxy and the...
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Circle of Eyes
There’s a wealth of bands and solo projects involving Kevin Gan Yuen (Sutekh Hexen) in which he explores aural dissonance through the guitar and feedback, but none are as rich in storytelling as Circle...
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Godstopper – What Matters (streaming)
“I think playing live has helped demystify the band, for me if for no one else; however strange or alienating the music might seem, the delivery is honest and uncomplicated, accessible in its own way....
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Arosian Black Mass MMXII
Västerås, late November. After a gruelling train to Warsaw and a turbulent plane to Sweden, I finally reach the small town and find myself blanketed in the frosty, Norse darkness. A crow caws into the...
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Horse Latitudes – Black Soil
It’s this psychedelic, kraut-rock style of play that makes Horse Latitudes so interesting. It turns out that merging the symbolism and melodic repetition of prog-oriented music with the low end drive...
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Kayo Dot Interview: On Hubardo & Crowd-Funded Projects
Hubardo is a story about a meteor that falls to Earth and enchants the heart of a lonely poet, forcing him to undergo a personal alchemical transformation. LURKER’s love affair with Kayo Dot is well...
View ArticleBlut aus Nord & P.H.O.B.O.S. – Triunity
The four-way Dissociated Human Junction, which featured a handful of untitled tracks from French legends Blut aus Nord and a seemingly random smattering of contributions from three nobodies, is telling...
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