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 75%Dear Deer- Les deux piliers2025-04-30 / khocico / Reads: 283Some duos ride trends. Others tear through them. Dear Deer are the latter: a pair whose sound is as untamed as it is calculated, as chaotic as it is poetic. I saw them once—Dark Spring Festival 2023—and it was enough to leave an imprint. Not because they were polished. Because... |
 85%Empusae – "The Alchemist’s Rift"2025-04-26 / khocico / Reads: 485Some artists capture sound the way the Japanese cherish porcelain — with attention, love, and awareness that even if broken, it can be mended with gold and become even more precious. Empusae has always been one of them for me. I always listen to his albums on my best headphones,... |
 90%Klangstabil - Chronik2025-04-24 / khocico / Reads: 451I 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: 701The 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: 582Not 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: 728As 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... |
