Announced some time last year, with a little bit of a line-up change, as a follow-up to their sophomore album, “Dreamstate”, Metamorphosis will come out January 28th! As a reminder, here’s the songs “Euclid”, “Shattered” and “Suspicion” that were also debuted, but in a live setting instead of a studio one!
Euclid
Shattered
Suspicion
Book of Sand is a black metal one-man band that has been around since 2009, and The Face of the Deep is their fifth full-length. It seems that, specifically for this release, they went out of their way and dove head first in experimental and avant-garde waters. However I feel they did so in the shallow and might have broken their neck…
Their previous catalogue comprises pretty traditional black metal with various external influences that almost go unnoticed if it were not for the addition of violin. Some songs are very decent, like “Arran Boat Song“, with its contemplative monotony, … Read more
So, 2015 has come and gone such as a gust of wind inside the empty halls of our lives in which we blindly crawl, writhing until we fall to our death in one of the unforeseeable traps set up by the mad architect of this edifice. But at least, we have music to make our aimless trip more bearable. So, what artists and albums shone this year? We asked our team to come up with their picks, so there they are: the very best of 2015.
Lefteris Kefalas
2015 started off as a promising year but it concluded with many … Read more
This Brazilian drums-and-bass duo play in the realms of experimental stoner metal. There is not much information about the band, apart that they’re from Curitiba, Brazil, and that Set Adrift is their first release.
The very premise of a duo makes it so that there are huge timbre and register limitations; one instrument can only do so much! Therefore, Giant Gutter from Outer Space sounds roughly similar to other drums-and-bass metal duos like Bangladeafy, and other bass-fronted experiments such as Zvoyn and, to some extent, Primus. Each of these bands, GGFOS included, have their own sound and personality … Read more