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 90%Klangstabil - Chronik2025-04-24 / khocico / Reads: 293I listen to a lot of new music. Some of it is great, technically — yet it leaves me untouched. Some is entirely forgettable the second it stops playing. Some aspires, some repeats, some follows patterns so closely it disappears into them. But music that is truly good, deeply good... |
 70%Agonised Too – ToNieMy2025-04-13 / khocico / Reads: 610The neo-melancholics from Agonised Too return with a song that once again enchants through restraint, subtle sadness, and masterful emotional control. ToNieMy is both a clever linguistic play — "To nie my" (It’s not us) or "toniemy" (we are drowning) — and an emotional diptych of longing and detachment. The... |
 70%Ira Noctis- Lucifer and Unholy Trinity2025-04-10 / khocico / Reads: 535Not many artists venture into the realm of dark electro these days — and that makes Kamil’s dedication all the more commendable. Chapeau bas for holding the line, for keeping the pulse of this genre alive and kicking. There are moments at festivals when a seemingly random discovery becomes the... |
 75%Philipp Münch – Tales from the Lower Cave2025-04-10 / khocico / Reads: 677As a child, I had a kaleidoscope filled with colored shards of glass that shifted with each subtle motion, rearranging themselves into new, fleeting geometries. What fascinated me was not the color or shape of the pieces, but the transformation itself — the idea that the smallest turn could produce... |
 60%bent – Liquid Bells EP2025-04-10 / khocico / Reads: 357Niko Martens doesn’t demand attention—he earns it with nuance. His project bent speaks in discreet electronics, not with bombast but with sonic precision. And Liquid Bells, his latest EP, is a masterclass in restraint and resonance, delivering immediacy without ever sacrificing depth. It hums, pulses, aches—each track a fragment of... |
 80%Dalila Kayros – KHTHONIE2025-04-04 / khocico / Reads: 628I first wrote down my impressions before discovering the meaning behind the title — and yet it was as if my intuition had already known. KHTHONIE is derived from the Greek word khthonios (χθόνιος), meaning "of the earth" or "from the underworld." It refers to powers dwelling beneath the surface... |
