It’s one of these dive bars, in a city like no other. The low-ceilinged basement shelters a handful of freaks who braved the winter cold. 1493 kilometers now separate...
It’s no secret that I absolutely love Kavrila. But so far in my previous reviews, I never quite explained how the love story began. With their latest EP reissue comes the...
Look out, something’s brewing. There’s electricity in the air. A ball of energy concentrated in the palm of your hand, like Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira, ready to...
Warning: if you’re already neurotic and deeply depressed about the current world events and uncertain future, don’t listen to this album or read any further –...
How do you determine a band’s popularity and influence on the music scene? Judge by the number of imitators it spawns in its wake. Let’s make no mistake: Slift have...
Pothamus. Remember this name. With their second album “Abur”, the Belgian trio establishes a new milestone in the evolution of post-metal, with the birth of a new branch. And...
South-west of France heavy newcomers À Terre are releasing their debut album, and what a debut! Emerging from a post-heavy scene that has reached some sort of ceiling and...
The pioneers (and last survivors) of French dark noise rock just released their seventh album “Deathly Silence”, thanks to the support of an assembly of independent labels....
Mantar doesn’t make compromises. Never. In 2022, they released the polished and wide-ranging “Pain Is Forever and This Is the End”, adding a new string to their...
You’ll be hearing a lot about Dax Riggs this year. Not to mention Acid Bath. After a first aborted comeback attempt at Sick Sad World (which got canceled), the mythical and...
Here is an album review that required much more thinking and introspection than I ever expected. How could I not elaborate on the quintessential qualities of one of my favorite...
Sometimes you have to take a step back. Take a break from this systematic frenzy of consuming new releases every Friday. Maybe even look back and realize that albums that...
Goddamn, this was by far the hardest end-of-year piece we’ve had to put together in ages, as this year’s quantity and quality of releases frankly got us overwhelmed....
Time flies and I must admit that the avalanche of new releases in the Stoner, Sludge and Doom genres can wear us off. As musical junkies, we keep looking for the excitement, the...
Elephant Tree. Lowrider. Such an encounter on record falls under astrophysics. The realm of macro and the infinitely large. On a human scale, such a phenomenon occurs as often as...
