trioVD – Fill It Up With Ghosts

trioVD is an experimental jazz trio from the UK, and Fill It Up With Ghosts is their 2009 debut album. After this one, they’ve released X in 2011 and Maze in 2012.

I would readily compare trioVD with T.R.A.M., as they’re both experimental jazz trios comprised of a saxophone, a guitar, and drums. Both lacking the low end and groove provided by the bass guitar; it may be because I’m a bassist myself that I find this somewhat enraging, but it is quite upsetting that such great music goes without a bassist, it seems like such a waste! Still, trioVD, … Read more

News: Covet live studio video!

Covet is a math rock trio led by Yvette Young, the guitar virtuoso (if you haven’t checked her solo acoustic EP, you need to right now, right here). The song, either unnamed or eponymous to the band’s name, is rather relaxed but shows some great musicianship from everybody but mostly from the frontwoman, Yvette. They’re supposedly in the studio, recording their debut album, and if you’re not excited for it, you need to listen to the Acoustics EP she put out!… Read more

The Eyjafjallajökull, double Icelandic metal review: Momentum and Misþyrming

Momentum started out in 2003, in the capital Reykjavik, where more than a third of Iceland’s population resides. With black and death metal roots, they have evolved their very own sound, which could be vaguely described as psychedelic progressive doom. Their latest album, The Freak Is Alive, shows the band in its best form yet: heavy and slow riffs, intricate drumming, low vocals that sound like they’re from a Russian choir, and the use of uncommon instrumentation in some parts (sitar and bells, for example). All of this makes for an interesting listen that doesn’t wear out after repeated… Read more

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