‘The standard of composition is high, like a band tied to a major label in the late 1990s with a brief to replicate the sales figures of Nine Inch Nails,’…
Tag: avantgarde music
Denver crew, Cronos Compulsion, hate the overproduced aspects of extreme metal. They might not be on record with this opinion, nor do we know their true feelings, but the raw…
US quartet, Valdrin, identify with the melodic black metal genre, but their definition of melody must be different to ours. The human ears can detect clashing notes in a musical…
Albums that want to transfer their despondency onto the listener can be hit or miss. Pornography by The Cure or Holy Money by Swans are triumphs of desolation and pain,…
Utrecht noise alchemists, Defacement, write music for the few and not the many. There are no riffs, or extravagant drum fills, or memorable vocal lines, or bass solos. It’s a…
Beware of one-man projects that spread the word of atmospheric black metal. Often, they’ll crush you under a weight of clichés. You know the scene: a reclusive young man with…