Portal. Australians' dark magic is irrational and inexplicable - just like their grandiose and terrifying Lovecraftian music. Queensland anons, who gave birth to the horror metal genre and still remain – maybe not the best – but certainly its extremely representative manifestation, over the course of more than 20 years have become a real underground cultural phenomenon. It is, perhaps, best described by a RateYourMusic review – 'now any DM I hear falls under the category of ... read more
The phenomenon of increasing claustrophobia and anxiety in the music released (or recorded) during the pandemic became commonplace and ceased to be perceived as something new: a number of post-punk bands of 'new wave of the post-punk revival', made such changes central to their work – fortunately or not, even before the COVID times, the general state of the world gave many reasons for this. It's a wonder that in this environment, one of the mastodons of this newly formed scene, called one ... read more
Primal, dissonant riffs. Evil, cold gutturalus. Dry, crushing percussion. 'Terra Incognita', which was born in 2001, immediately attracted metal community's attention: the formula "simplistic = goes very hard", deduced by Meshuggah, who have not yet given birth to a genre they will disown shortly afterwards,, found another implementer. The subsequent five chapters of the history of one of the main modern collectives of the genre only consolidated it, each time adding more and more ... read more
«Bringing Nurture to live meant overcoming creative drought, depression and family illness... it is made up of songs he found on other side: adventurous, uplifting diaries of his own path back to happiness, each one imploring listeners suffering their own periods of hardship to hold on,» – Spotify's About on Porter Robinson latest LP.
Albums created in spite of something, charging with positiveness albums, motivating albums, are not a new thing. Half of the 00s indie ... read more
Death metal, the most cruel in its original nature metal's offspring by the end of the second decade of 21st century reached its critical point. With a significant supportive fanbase gained over the years, it has consistently followed the principles laid down by the pioneers in Death, Obituary, Deicide, Morbid Angel and many, many others; its sound almost never got 'modernized'. 35 years after the release of Screamy Bloody Gore, the themes of the songs are still (pun intended) bloody gore, the ... read more