My relationship with the weird and wonderful world of Hawkwind started nearly 30 years ago when, as an impressionable young metal head, I would eagerly devour everything Tommy Vance would throw at me on the much missed Friday Rock Show. One night, while waiting…
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Somewhere out there on the fringe, sonic explorers of the of the outer dark Gauchiste skirt the orbit of drone and extreme metal sounds, dipping into their outer edges just long enough to tear off chunks of ripe and bloody raw material for their…
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A little something slightly off the beaten track for The Shaman here as Mehata Sentimental Legend from, where else, Japan dish up ten tracks of wonky, woozy psychedelic haze with a definite traditional Japanese music bent. The more traditional sounds of thin, whining flutes,…
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Let’s start by stating the obvious: Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II is a world away from Earth’s pivotal album Earth 2; we are, after all, experiencing the second-coming of Earth. However this new incarnation shares many similarities with the version of the…
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Washing into earshot on a wave of shifting, multilayered drone before piling in with a throbbing bassline, pounding JAMC-style steamhammer rhythm and washes of treated guitar, it’s hard to believe that Thisquietarmy is only one man. Eric Quach has been exploring the boundaries of…
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Allow me, if you will, to get esoteric and mystical on your collective ass. Indulge me. Listening to The Clearing within the wider context of Locrian’s career thus far puts me in mind of the Qabalistic Tree Of Life. Stick with me here, this…
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Taking Aun’s Phantom Ghost at face value you could probably do a fair job of predicting the sounds within. The cover image is an out-of-focus picture of two young girls in white gowns; one sits looking at something out of sight while the other…
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Where do you start with a record you can barely comprehend in its dense complexity? Where do you start to analyse unique art created by two brothers who live on a remote farm, adhering to a traditional life on the land and who claim…
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An Obake, for the ignorant among you, is a form of shape-shifter or ghost in Japanese folklore – Indeed, the word translates as ‘a thing that changes’ – but for our purposes, Obake is an avant-doom supergroup composed of some of the finest experimental…
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A bit off the beaten track for The Sleeping Shaman, this one, due to its lack of guitars, hair, fuzzboxes and flared trousers, but never let it be said that we don’t attempt to edjumacate youse heathen scum by exposing you to sounds that…
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