UNCANNY – Shroomsday

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…

ANACHORET – Syndrom

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…