Download our compilation, “Melocules I”, for free!

In order to celebrate the blog’s 3-year anniversary, we’ve asked numerous bands and artists to appear on this compilation. The response has been overwhelmingly positive, and now you have it: Melocules I, our first official compilation of weird, challenging, interesting music of various genres, from Assamese jazz to post-technical death metal, and loads of stuff in-between.

We hope you’ll like it! It’s available for free on bandcamp, and you can donate a small amount if you feel like it!

As for me, I’m busy as hell, and I know that reviews aren’t coming as regularly as they should, but … Read more

Exclusive track premiere: Vermingod’s ”A Stranded Figure Painted Pus”

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Vermingod is a Greek death metal band, originally formed in the summer of 2003, though it wasn’t until 2010 that they released their debut album The Grand March to Devastation, a totally self-financed effort that fused all influences the band had then into ten tracks of modern death metal. Now, after some years of absence, they’re about to come back with their sophomore album, enigmatically titled Whisperer of the Abysmal Wisdom, which will render their sound a darker and more technical texture, while maintaining the key elements of the past. The band decided to unveil a brand new track … Read more

Les Mouvements – Les Mouvements (2013)

Les Mouvements is a French instrumental jazzu progressive rock duo comprised of a drummer and a fretless guitar-harp player. Yup, an instrument that is very rarely seen or heard, with the added bonus of fretlessness! How does that sound like? Listen to the video of Laminaires below to find out.

For those of you who do not know what a guitar-harp is, it’s a hybrid instrument usually consisting of a guitar, with added strings that are meant to be played openly, as accompaniment or else, and often tuned to form chords. Check out this picture to look at the sweet … Read more

Sein Zum Tode – Siamese Second Cousins Never Removed

Lately I’ve been very busy – and tired – because of work, music, relations… basically everything other than writing about weird music that only 10 people know about worldwide. Also, I’ve felt very overwhelmed recently, with the huge ass pile of new and amazing music that fell upon me. I also felt like I couldn’t convey how amazing these bands were, and that I am a poor music blogger. But I recalled that I’m not a reviewer and my role is not to critique or review albums, but just to talk about the music that I like, and that I… Read more

Review: Sevish – Rhythm And Xen

Sevish has been known in the microtonal music circles for some time now, mostly due to his 2010 effort “Golden Hour”. 2015 marks the return of the man, with Rhythm And Xen, a xenharmonic effort leaning heavily on drum & bass and electronic music, as well as breakbeat and ambient music. For the uninitiated, xenharmonic is “music that does not sound like 12-tone equal temperament”, according to Ivor Darreg, who coined the term.

Therefore, the music in there might be quite hard to grasp for somebody who’s only heard 12-tone equal temperament (12-TET) all their life, taking up practically … Read more