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Autumn Creatures – Funeral Garden

by Dæv Tremblay

The Music

The Words

Autumn Creatures is not a new name, exactly. They’ve been around since at least 2013, but it’s through Funeral Garden that I’ve discovered them. The band is made up of a core of five musicians, and they are joined on this release by a string quartet, which gives a whole new depth to the band’s music.

The band plays an essentially instrumental sort of post-metal with keyboards adding to the usual “metal band” sound. On top of that, the string quartet appears here and there for extended periods of time where atmosphere supersedes riffs. What’s more, … Read more

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