RELEASE YEAR: 2026BAND URL: https://www.cultofluna.com/ These Swedish legends never cease to either excite or confound the listener, or do both for that matter, but whichever way you see it, their outputs are something out of the ordinary and always warrant a good discussion. There is always more than meets the eye when it comes to Cult…
Up from the ashes comes a most unwelcome specter of the past, namely a 10-track compilation containing re-mixed and re-mastered songs dating from 2008-2010 by the now-defunct ambient/post-rock entity known as Sagntid, which was released on June 26. Consisting of the entire debut album titled The Slipstream World of Sagntid and three additional compositions lifted from…
RELEASE YEAR: 2024BAND URL: https://www.facebook.com/uncannysounds/ This is my first encounter with the charming and delightfully wonky progressive metal band from Norway known as Uncanny, and I must say that I find this eclectic and perfectly unpredictable eight-track offering of theirs, which will be out in April, quite beguiling and seductive. While their soundscapes undoubtedly are…
RELEASE YEAR: 2022BAND URL: https://anachoret.bandcamp.com/ The German one-man entity named Anachoret released this solid and deftly executed opus all the way back in February this year, but yesterday it showed up in my mailbox, so I reckon a few short sentences about Syndrom are in order. Drawing heavily on second-wave black metal, DSBM, and to a…
