The Stompcrash - Requiem Rosa

2010-12-30 / Ajłona / Reads: 3772

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: 3081

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: 2545

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...

The Secret Meeting - Ultrashiver

2008-01-19 / Kirke / Reads: 3117

Debut album of The Secret Meeting project was released at the beginning of July 2007. The project is the effect of cooperation of Collide and Dean Garcia - ex-leader of British band Curve. I don't know how did it happen that those three met in the studio, but the album...

The Pussybats - Famous Last Songs

2009-06-17 / Schizev / Reads: 19572

German 'The Pussybats' have chosen the beginning of the year for the premiere of their first album. The beginning of each year is the time when we all look for new challenges, new directions and new paths. Before an official release of the record forecasts were saying that it's going...

The Peoples Republic Of Europe - Feel The Power

2014-01-05 / DamienG / Reads: 2022

The harsh alienating sounds of cacophonous doomcore method are perhaps too polarizing to appeal to broader industrial demographic but The Peoples Republic Of Europe for some time now has been confidently walking the fine line between nihilistic instrumentations and playful genre crossovers - an ability that elevated them beyond the...