AlterRed - Mind-Forged Manacles

2012-02-06 / Serge / Reads: 2538

This is a strange album. Even a very strange one. For a long time I could not make myself to hear it for reasons depending and independent from me. Luckily I managed finally, and here it is before you: AlterRed - Mind-Forged Manacles. What greets us is "Like April...

AlterRed - DollsTown

2012-06-10 / savetier / Reads: 2704

Before I got this album to review, I have to admit that I never heard of AlterRed to this time. With their latest release 'DollsTown' I realized soon that I had a real gem in my hands. The album has influences from cabaret, future pop and darkwave, while a synthpop...

Alter der Ruine - This is why we can't have nice things

2011-06-27 / arthur / Reads: 4393

There's this German label Pronoize, thanks to which we know such projects as Noisuf-X, SAM or Xotox. Last year American band Alter der Ruine was taken under its wings and for a good start of their cooperation, a greatest hits package: 'This is why we can't have nice things' has...

Alter Der Ruine - I Will Remember It All Differently

2016-05-19 / RobertSaligia / Reads: 4202

Since 2005 Americans from Alter Der Ruine came through an impressive evolutionary path, when it comes to sound. Beginning from the very first releases kept in industrial and noise genre, they have been constantly looking for new ways. The group’s fifth studio album and the first after another reunion, should...

Allseits - Hel

2013-07-25 / ink_85 / Reads: 2215

Hel, or Niflheim - "dark world", Niflhel - "dark helium", Náströnd - "coast of dead." There get those, who missed a glorious death on the battlefield. The mythical, Scandinavian Kingdom of Death was ruled by a spooky, half-corpse goddess Hel, dressed in a Nausea gown, resting on a bed of...

Alles - NOW

2024-10-11 / khocico / Reads: 813

"NOW", the latest album from the Łódź-based duo Alles, strikes a chord with its blend of cold-wave, electronic beats, and dark humor, offering a sardonic take on the chaos of contemporary life. Formed in 2014, the band, composed of Paweł Strzelec and Marcin Regucki, has made a name for itself...