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The Gathering’s 5th album might be considered their ‘magnum opus’. They finally freed themselves from the shackles of metal and leap into territories hitherto unknown to them. It suits them fine, except for the first album (in that particular time) I think metal isn’t their forte.
Conceptalbums! I’m sure this term makes some people cringe! Beyond Twilight’s debut album is a tale about a man hacking his way through time and his own brain through a computer. This story is accompanied by a hybrid of melodic metal and progressive rock in a nearly ‘doom’ fashion.
LOVAGE (noun): Lovage is an herb that is said to be a benefit for relieving abdominal pains due to gastrointestinal gas. It's also been touted to reduce flatulence when consumed as a tea brewed from its roots or leaves.
It's cool... it's relaxing... it's different.This is already the second album from US based band Shivaree and I just happened to stumble upon them a few days ago and bought both albums at once.
Turkish popmusic has always been a big stew of western and eastern cultures, traditional oriental songs arranged with western chords and harmony structures, but still maintaining a strong Turkish identity by their melodic sense and typical inflections.
Well, it must be clear now. Nu-jazz is taking over. Jaga Jazzist, Cinematic Orchestra, Nils Petter Molvær and also not-Norwegian artists are pushing the boundaries of jazz further and further.
The Gathering are celebrating their 12,5 years of existence with this new EP. It has been some time since their last release, the Amity single. So I was full of joy when this disc finally got delivered.
For an experimental band as Fantômas, they sure are popular these days. After the cult soundtrack cover album "The Director's Cut" the band toured a lot and gained popularity.
After I discovered Kid606's album "Down With The Scene" I slowly collected more of his albums. He always seems to have an interesting way of combining noise with glitch and clicks & cuts.
The last couple of years more and more female solo musicians reached the international charts. Think Alicia Keys, Shakira... And Nelly Furtado. The similarities between these girls are, besides their young age, the ability that they can do a lot more than just singing and looking good.
Wolverine plays a brand of Prog-Metal that should feel like home to fans of Pain of Salvation, Fates Warning and Evergrey (maybe even Dream Theater).
After a few years waiting the masters of Funeral Doom, Skepticism, are finally back to serve us an appetiser to their upcoming new full length 'Farmakon'.
Venetian Snares aka Aaron Funk keeps on rocking the technoïd music scene. Besides various singles, remixes, and albums planned to be released on various labels, not less than 3 full albums will be released this year on Planet Mu.
The Fan Club Orchestra is perhaps the very first electronic live improvisation orchestra in the world; under supervision of the Baudoux brothers more or less 10 people improvise together playing percussion, guitar, harmonica, mouth organs, trombone, turntables and even gameboys...
Sometimes, good things happen. Sometimes, bad things happen too. But what is good and bad? What is right or wrong? V/Vm strikes again with a very odd and confusing release, described as being like Dire Straits' "Brothers In Arms" without Mark Knopfler...
The German act Doc Wör Mirran has a seemingly endless discography, which I would not even start counting. "The Soundtrack Of Death" is their latest professional release (since they also release numerous CDRs), and is probably the noisiest and loudest Doc Wör Mirran release to date.
Oops (Oh My) is currently in the charts. This particular song was produced by Timbaland and Tweet is being marketed as a protegé of Missy Elliot. This seems a bit unfair reading the credits on Southern Hummingbird as Charlene Keys a.k.a. Tweet produced the bulk of the songs.
John Zorn’s latest composition focuses on occult, kabbalistic themes. Partly inspired by Aleister Crowley but mainly a tribute to Crowley’s magickal disciple Kenneth Anger, a fimmaker. As one would expect these are the conditions for a dark and haunting musical piece.
Eclektronics marks the return of electronic music pioneer Jean Jacques Perrey. The French composer, encouraged by his daughter, hooked up with David Chazam to record a demo LP that was originally released in 1997.
"A Stairway To The Stars" is the second album by The Caretaker, who presumably also recorded music under the name V/Vm. Perhaps the most interesting music on V/Vm Test Records has to offer, "A Stairway To The Stars" consists of reprocessed ballroom music from the 1930's and 1940's.
Nils Petter Molvær is one of Norway's finest jazz artists, well-known for his successful cooperation with other artists as well as his solo work. "NP3" is his third album, following the highly acclaimed "Khmer" and "Solid Ether", released in 1998 and 2000 respectively.
Cave In is currently one of my favourite rock acts. The four piece, who attracted a lot of attention with their '00 release Jupiter seems to be doing something right.
After really enjoying The Microphones’ last album, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that Phil Elvrum was involved with this Little Wings disc.
My Dying Bride has got a long and doomy track record. Over the years they have built up an impressive discography, which so far has not really included a true live album.