Month: August 2014

Review: Sun Worship – Elder Giants

Review: Sun Worship – Elder Giants

Sun Worship are a succesful black metal outfit from Berlin… well, when one thinks in underground scales. Their “Elder Giants” album sees a repress on vinyl, this time on white vinyl and with the same fantastic production value that the first press offered. Let’s get 

Review: Fjort – D’accord

Review: Fjort – D’accord

I finally bought “D’accord”, the new album by german harcore/ screamo outfit Fjort, on vinyl. It’s on clear vinyl, which is not my favourite vinyl version (calling it colour would be ill-fitting), but anyway. The production value is excellent and the cover art really nice, even 

Deathwish Inc. stream the new Code Orange album in full

Deathwish Inc. stream the new Code Orange album in full

Deathwish Inc. are offering the new Code Orange (formerly Code Orange Kids) on YouTube: Code Orange obviously matured during the last year. They’ve released through Deathwish Inc. ever since they finished high school and have been touring extensively. That’s quite a feat in itself, but 

Sleepwave release a nice new video

Sleepwave release a nice new video

Sleepwave have released a video for “The Wolf”, a song of their upcoming debut album “Broken Compass”.  Former Underoath singer Spencer is one of the tow core band members and shows his impressive abilities as a singer in the video. “Broken Compass” will be released in mid-September. 

Review: Sunwølf – Beholden to Nothing and No One

Review: Sunwølf – Beholden to Nothing and No One

The british duo Sunwølf released their third album two months ago, but it took me a while to grasp “Beholden to Nothing and No One” in its entirety. The 14 tracks demand the full attention of the listener, otherwise they are not more than nice background 

Interview: Hexis

Interview: Hexis

  As I’ve said before: you need to check out Hexis. The danish band is touring extensively this year, so there’s a good chance to have them play a venue close to your home. If you’re into focused, intense live shows combined with excellent black 

Musings about Naglfar

Musings about Naglfar

Each and everyone of us has a couple of bands of which he only likes their early work. I.e. the first Mayhem album, the early Slayer stuff, or the 70s era of Black Sabbath [not my choices, though]. To me, Naglfar is on top of 

SUNNO))) reveal artwork of their collaboration album with Scott Walker

SUNNO))) reveal artwork of their collaboration album with Scott Walker

Sunno))) not only excel with experimental music on the verge of pure noise, but also with highly interesting visual design. Their new effort will be a collaboration with singer/ songwriter Scott Walker and features a fascinating artwork. Here’s what the band has to say about 

Spotlight: Deafheaven

Spotlight: Deafheaven

Yes, they are totally en vogue. Yes, they appear to be extremely focused and maybe a tad weird. But still, “Sunbather” is a hell of a black metal album. Deafheaven worked harded to reach the status they have nowadays, no doubt about that. One can 

Review: Opeth – Pale Communion

Review: Opeth – Pale Communion

Opeth have left their metal days behind with “Heritage” and apparently don’t want to change that with their new album “Pale Communion”. In fact, they focus even more on progressive and classic rock.