The Unkindness of Ravens – Virus

2013-12-08 / RobertSaligia / Reads: 3062

The Unkindness of Ravens - "Virus". If the only association that comes to your mind when you see these words, is that it is a specific type of an avian influenza, it is high time to change it. The band was formed in 2009 in London and since then...

The Threshold HouseBoys Choir - Form Grows Rampant

2009-06-24 / alucard / Reads: 5031

After the death of Coil’s John Balance, there was absolutely no doubts about ending the band’s activity. But the second half of Coil, Peter Christopherson, is way too creative to end his career with the end of his mother band. Just after releasing the final, farewell Coil album, "Ape Of...

The Three Blind Mice - Early Morning Scum

2015-08-18 / RobertSaligia / Reads: 2987

We all know the gruesome British rhyme about the three blind mice and farmers’ wife with a carving knife, who deprives them of their tails. Italian The Three Blind Mice show that for sure one thing they are not missing: sharpened music hearing, and that makes "Early Morning Scum" one...

The Stompcrash - Requiem Rosa

2010-12-30 / Ajłona / Reads: 3811

What are your associations with gothic music? Depressive mood full of melancholy, nostalgia or yearning is the first thing which crosses your mind, next to the lyrics of martyrdom, death, loneliness and traits of primeval legends. The most important part is that it should be dusky and sullen, placed...

The Stompcrash - Directions

2013-03-25 / RobertSaligia / Reads: 3122

As a fan of dark romanticism and classics of horror literature I have one deviation – if a music of a project is described as inspired by the works (or at least the works climate) of Poe or Lovecraft, I throw myself at it like as a deerhound on the...

The Sorrow - Origin of the Storm

2011-04-01 / hellium / Reads: 2585

What do we get when we mix Meshuggah and Soilwork? Obviously this will be, emerging from Austria, The Sorrow. After the powerful debut, which was appreciated within the world-wide sphere of hard music, the band recorded "Origin of the Storm" – the album of equally high quality. The band...