Category: Experimental

5 August 2022 / Experimental

Imperial Triumphant – Spirit of Ecstasy

Covid-19 hit Imperial Triumphant more than most musical artists. They were the hottest tipped band of 2019 after releasing their 2018 avant-garde masterpiece, Vile Luxury. Slots on all the prominent…

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25 July 2022 / Experimental

Ashenspire – Hostile Architecture

Scottish people take their socialism seriously, unlike the champagne socialists of England whose idea of class solidarity is a debate in the student union bar and a pledge to identify…

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14 July 2022 / Experimental

The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara – Trust No Leaders

London duo, The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara (TCOMAS), are an archetypal example of the creativity brimming in England’s capital city. Singer and lyricist, Daphne Ang, hails from Singapore, while…

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8 July 2022 / Dark

Final Light – Final Light

What do you get when you pair up James Kent of Perturbator with Johannes Persson of Cult of Luna? The answer is a one-time project commissioned by Roadburn Festival that…

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6 July 2022 / Experimental

Pathos & Logos – Cult EP

Kyle Neeley and Paul Christiansen formed Pathos & Logos in 2018 after their main musical project went into hibernation. As an instrumental duo, they piqued the attention of the prog…

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30 June 2022 / Experimental

WOORMS – Fatalismo

Louisiana trio WOORMS bludgeoned their way onto the scene in 2019 with Slake, a sludge metal debut which made a virtue of its contradictions: puerile song titles (‘Urine Trouble Now’)…

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23 June 2022 / Experimental

IANAI – Sunir

Jaani Peuhu is one of Finland’s most respect musicians as the singer and songwriter of electronic darkwave act, Iconcrash. Metal fans will know him as the man who provided the…

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31 May 2022 / Experimental

Secret People – Secret People

New York buddies, Kate Gentile and Dustin Carlson, once lived together as roommates and worked at the same coffee shop in Brooklyn when they formed Secret People in 2012. Gentile…

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7 April 2022 / Experimental

Animals as Leaders – Parrhesia

It doesn’t feel like six years since the last Animals as Leaders record, although two of those we can discount due to the disruptive impact of Covid-19. In that time,…

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23 March 2022 / Experimental

Sulphur Nurse – Roopkund

What do you get when Dan Dolby (Mastiff), Eeli Helin (Lungknots) and Matt Finney (Clawing) join their minds together for an Anglo/Finnish/American collaboration? Answer: the strangest type of avant-garde power…

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