Their last album, 2 L 8 2 B Normal was one hell of an album, perfect for fans crazy music and wicked musicianship! The Psychic Planetarium, which is due March 11th, will encompass many genres and styles with the usual over-the-top technicality of the members involved: Jimmy Pitts, Marco Minnemann, Tom Geldschläger, and Jerry Twyford, along with an array of guest musicians!
Click here if you want to support the project on indiegogo!… Read moreSunless – Demo 2016
Sunless is a band from Minnesota created in 2014 and comprised of four members. With heavy influences from dissonant death metal acts such as Gorguts and Ulcerate, and a surprising audio quality considering it’s labeled a demo, Sunless will most certainly get people talking, and chances are that Demo 2016 is only the first of many great albums they put out. But why is it so good?
If you haven’t noticed already, it dwells on dissonance, and equipoises technicality with atmosphere. Indeed, the very first, lone arpeggiated and distorted chord from the song Born of Clay immediately screams “You’ve come … Read more
OSR: January 23rd, 2016
Lost Salt Blood Purges just released Only the Youngest Grave, an intriguing experimental ambient double-album that really is worth letting yourself drift into. On quite the opposite end of the spectrum, we’ve got 0‘s 2014 song-album, Null & Void – quite the nihilistic type, eh? -, a very well made depressive and doomy black metal piece! Noise-rockers Baklavaa are releasing Dane On in early March. It’s a pretty decent, gnarly rock album but you might want to wait for a few more previews to be released in order to make your mind. Oh Iceland, your glaciers and black… Read more
Steven Wilson – 4 ½
Steven Wilson surprised me last year with his album Hand. Cannot. Erase. which I absolutely loved. So when I heard that his new EP 4 ½ mostly contained unreleased material from the Hand. Cannot. Erase. sessions I got pretty excited.
And it didn’t disappoint! The lineup that’s been on Steven’s solo albums since The Raven That Refused to Sing has been really solid, and they continue to nail it with this half album.
4 ½ has a nice mix of soft proggy melodies, rocking riffs, and unique solos. The glitchy sounding solo on “Vermillioncore” sounds especially cool and actually has … Read more
OSR: January 21st, 2016
Amsterdam’s Spinifex erupt with chaotic intensity on Hipsters Gone Ballistic, a set of avant-punk-jazz aberrations that are simultaneously crushing, refined, and unpredictable.
Based on his incorporation of retro synths into his cutting edge jazz fusion style, I get the impression that Evan Marien is a fan of chiptunes, however his production skills and bass chops help put his latest release, Artifacts, on an entirely different level.
The debut Advent EP from blackened folk metallers Wandering Oak is a promising display of occult darkness forging a distinct identity without forgetting the roots from which it sprung.
Satan’s Secret is … Read more