The Stompcrash - Requiem Rosa

2010-12-30 / Ajłona / Reads: 3711

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...

L'Effet C'est Moi - Tomber En Heros

2011-01-03 / Szyszka / Reads: 4488

Part 1: Pour Le Splendeur D’Empeire Frankly speaking, I have expected something else. This is my first experience with L'Effet C'est Moi, but this doesn’t change anything. Well, I have been prepared for a big war battle but it turned out to be kind of a positional warfare....

Beati Mortui - Let The Funeral Begin

2011-01-10 / Jo Pawley / Reads: 3696

Beati Mortui are a band I hadn't heard of before until the Enzeit Bunkertracks cd's where I stumbled across a song by them which I quite enjoyed. They have a sound thats like switchblade symphony bumped into reaper. After hearing their song on the Enzeit Bunkertracks album I thought Id...

Lugburz - Songs from Forgotten Land

2011-01-12 / Medea / Reads: 3431

Lugburz is a project of Sathorys Elenorth, a musician related to rather commonly known bands: Narsilion and Der Blaue Reiter. While creating "Songs from Forgotten Land", the musician was being inspired by "The Lord of the Rings" written by J. R. R. Tolkien, therefore his record was somewhat forced to...

Essence Of Mind - Watch Out

2011-01-14 / ScarabBonku / Reads: 4259

When the debut album of essence saw the daylight, the band instantly started to be compared to such gigants of the alternative music as Apoptygma Berzerk, Icon of Coil or Combichrist. Nontheless, it is my firm belief that the first record had that particularily extraordinary and harsh freshness, which the...

Santa Hates You - Rocket Heart EP

2011-01-16 / Serge / Reads: 4024

The Santa Claus Day is approaching imminently, hence it is hight time someone reviewed an EP of Santa Hates You entitled "Rocket Heart". I have to admit it is my very first encounter with this project of Peter Spilles of Project Pitchfork. Is this EP worth a try? Let's...