Mgła – Age Of Excuse
The polish kings of straight, no experimentation, bleak black metal return with Age Of Excuse. And if you were looking for any change of direction you will be sorely deluded. Mgła are far from an abruptly changing band, but an…
Burzum and How I Got Into Black Metal
this is the second article in a series about my music discoveries. Read also part 1 Yeah, Burzum. The infamous Varg Vikernes. Man and his crimes aside, his third album, Hvis Lyset Tar Oss, was the first I listened of…
Rock is dead. Or hidden?
Or smelling funny, as the late Frank Zappa said of jazz. Rock is dead has long been claimed, asserted, announced, joked about and cried. Since the 70s already, in which arguably rock was at the height of its health. Perhaps…
How to, and not to, make a music biopic: Bohemian Rhapsody and Lords of Chaos
Music biopics are tricky. They are extremely prone to fall into the excessively celebratory trap or to focus too much on the private life of the protagonists instead of the musical aspects of it. I approach any music biopic very…
What I Listened this Year: My 2018 playlist
It has been a weird year. A few huge names dropped new albums but none were of earth-shattering quality. Many good extreme metal albums but only a handful worthy of the “awesome” tag. A surprisingly good pop album from last…
2 days in Oslo: a guide
Sylwia has already wrote about her Oslo Impressions. I wanted to add mine as Oslo, unlike her, had a special meaning for me since a long time. When we were thinking where to go, we had more than one possible…
Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Is blackgaze a genre of its own? Is blackgaze a branch of black metal? Is blackgaze anathema to a trve metaller? Yes, yes and no. These are my answers. Yours would be probably different and we’d get along just fine.…
What I listened in 2017: a playlist
None of the big names came out with worthy albums, of any at all, in this 2017. Thus the 2017 playlist for me is devoid of big bands, with a single exception. Contrarily to the usual “best of the year”…
Fleurety – The White Death
I admit having totally forgot about their existence. After the awesome Department of Apocalyptic Affairs of 17 years ago, they did caress the idea of a a full LP again but I despaired after the years passed by and no…
Travels, Music and Social Issues
