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Lulu is Metallica’s best album

by Dæv Tremblay

Even though it’s been wildly and almost unanimously massacred by both critics and fans, the one-time collaboration between Lou Reed & Metallica has become the latter’s most adventurous, and strongest release in a more than 30 years career.

Lulu appears like a Swiss knife in a battle axe collection; I don’t need to tell you it’s out of place. Indeed, I believe the reason why it was so broadly bashed is that it was seen as a Metallica record. The amount of “Metallica” sound throughout the album is so few that it could’ve been sold as something completely else and … Read more

vod – deciduus

by Dæv Tremblay


vod is a one-man experiment aiming at using the sub-bass frequency range to make utterly terrifying and tremendously heavy music.

The first full-length album, deciduus, was written and recorded in under two days completely. In order to play that low, the guitar parts are played on bass. And even then the string is really flubby! The tone on which most of the album is played to is A-1. To make sure you all understand well what this implies, let’s do some explaining.

The standard A string on a guitar is tuned to 440 Hz, it’s called … Read more

Cage – Pilots

by Dæv Tremblay


As if being a grindcore band wasn’t awesome already, Cage writes music about, and I quote, “The sound of Nicolas Cage LOSING HIS FUCKING SHIT.”

If you remember, we covered Cage‘s first EP, “Saint Nicolas”, but with the trouble we’ve had with the website host lately, that post is erased and has gone into a black hole. Nonetheless, today is our chance to redeem ourselves and we’ll be discussing the band’s latest album, Pilots, which was in fact recorded prior to “Saint Nicolas”, but released after it. It also includes the latter as … Read more

Deconstructing Sequence – Access Code

by Dæv Tremblay


As a young and talented extreme progressive metal act, Deconstructing Sequence, from the UK, begins to make waves in the community. Their latest two-song EP, Access Code, seems to follow the trend established by their debut EP last year: it’s harsh, it’s extreme, it’s good, but it’s short!

The sci-fi-inspired three-piece seems to succeed to their 2013 EP “Year One”, both concept-wise, and in music. Musically, it’s fast-paced and heavy, with the occasional lighter clean guitar with lots of effects on. Over the marathoning drums, the guitars and keyboards exchange places frequently. Similarly, … Read more

Peculate – The Chain Industry (Collateral Damage, Pt. II)

by Dæv Tremblay


The music of Peculate has been described as many things. I, however, would like to describe Peculate as restless, colourful, and eclectic.

Restless because a new LP is released every few months, with a few songs or sometimes an EP in-between. The rate of production resembles that of Omar Rodriguez-López, or, in other words, it’s a crazy production rate! Colourful and eclectic go side-by-side: the music is varied and in-your-face, hence the “colourful”, and its inspiration is drawn from a very diverse array of genres, and styles, quite literally “eclectic”.

Peculate‘s latest, The Chain … Read more