‘New Model’ is the latest EP from Perturbator (AKA James Kent), a Parisian electronic musician who specializes in synth wave and dark wave. Perturbator’s particular take on the genre is dark, brooding and sometimes downright evil, so it [...]
Note: This review needs to begin with a preface – all of the information that was found surrounding Totengeflüster is in German, and as such was run through Google Translate. Effort has been taken to ensure all information is correct and up to [...]
Braving a bitterly cold Melbourne midwinter evening I arrive at the Northcote social club and am greeted by a stage laden with vintage musical equipment, no high tech modern equipment in sight. Suddenly the house music dims and the Cascades [...]
Whilst I’ve been listening to metal for close to two decades now, I’ve somehow managed to miss the Brutal Death genre completely. As a result when I first spun up Pathology’s latest self-titled album, I was somewhat confronted by the [...]
It was Thursday night, and there was a big line out the front of Max Watts. In fact, as I was finally walking down the steps of the entrance into the underground venue, I heard the first few notes of the night begin to sound. And turning the corner, I was [...]
SikTh are considered by many to have been incredibly influential to progressive metal, and have been stated by numerous prominent artists to have been inspirational to their own songwriting. However in a somewhat strange turn of events, it so happened [...]
Ayreon is a musical project by Dutch songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer Arjen Anthony Lucassen. These works are typically described as prog rock/metal or metal opera, blurring the line between where a concept [...]
Helsott are a melodic death metal band from Southern California. Established in 2010, they released a crowd funded full length record in 2013. One of the perks of crowdfunding was an option to have a song written by the band about you, this was purchased [...]
