Author: Caspian Yurisich

Album & EP Reviews M 

Monobrow ‘Big Sky, Black Horse’ LP/DD 2014

26th July 20143rd September 2019 Caspian Yurisich 2014, Big Sky Black Horse, Caspian Yurisich, Digital, Heavy, Instrumental, LP, Monobrow, Review, Self Released

What makes a good instrumental band – what makes a good instrumental? How does Call Of The Ktulu succeed where

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Album & EP Reviews O 

Owl Oxidant ‘Secret Suburban Sun’ DD 2014

11th July 20143rd September 2019 Caspian Yurisich 2014, Artan Records, Blues Rock, Caspian Yurisich, Digital, Heavy, Owl Oxidant, Psych Rock, Review, Secret Suburban Sun

The word escapes me, but you know people who claim to see colour, detect smell etc. when music gets played?

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Album & EP Reviews D 

Dead Fader ‘Scorched’ LP 2014

26th May 20143rd September 2019 Caspian Yurisich 2014, Caspian Yurisich, Dead Fader, Digital, Dub, Electronic, Experimental, LP, Review, Scorched, Small But Hard Recordings

I’ve got a friend big into electronic music who’s often playing stuff in his car with the aim of getting

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Album & EP Reviews O 

Ocean Districts ‘Expeditions’ CD/DD & Outwailed ‘Observant’ CD/DD 2014

30th March 20143rd September 2019 Caspian Yurisich 2014, Ambient, Caspian Yurisich, CD, Digital, Expeditions, Heavy, Observant, Ocean Districts, Outwailed, Post-Rock, Review, Self Released

Every webzine I end up reviewing for (I’m up to about number four- no, I’m not a model employee) I

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A-F Interviews 

CONAN: Caspian Yurisich Questions Guitarist/Vocalist Jon Davis

26th February 201412th September 2019 Caspian Yurisich Blood Eagle, Caspian Yurisich, Conan, Interview, Jon Davis, Napalm Records

Much props to Conan frontman Jon Davis for being willing to sit down with me over skype and answer some

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Album & EP Reviews P 

Plurals ‘Bugenès Melissae’ LP/DD 2014

18th February 20143rd September 2019 Caspian Yurisich 2014, Ambient, Bugenès Melissae, Caspian Yurisich, Digital, Drone, Experimental, LP, Oaken Palace Records, Plurals, Review

Long form droney ambient occupies a pretty similar space to things like raw black metal, modern art, brutal death metal,

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Album & EP Reviews E 

Empty Flowers ‘The Air You Found’ CD 2014

8th February 20143rd September 2019 Caspian Yurisich 2014, Avant-Garde, Caspian Yurisich, CD, Dark, Dub, Empty Flowers, Experimental, Remix, Review, The Air You Found, Translation Loss Records

From what I can tell, no one really likes remixes (this isn’t going to be a hugely negative review, so

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Album & EP Reviews P 

Palefeather – S/T – CD 2014

28th January 20143rd September 2019 Caspian Yurisich 2014, Aftermath Music, Atmospheric, Caspian Yurisich, CD, Palefeather, Post-Rock, Prog Rock, Review, Self Titled

The unexpected is a great thing. I must admit when I heard Palefeather‘s description (“Pink Floyd with a bit of

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Album & EP Reviews S 

System Of Venus – S/T – CD/DD 2013

18th January 20143rd September 2019 Caspian Yurisich Caspian Yurisich, Review, Self Released, Self Titled, System Of Venus

My general litmus test for new music is a C&C Red Alert 2 skirmish. Bay of Pigs map, 5 brutal

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Album & EP Reviews M 

Men Of Fortune ‘Time Lovingly Bled’ LP 2013

6th January 20143rd September 2019 Caspian Yurisich 2013, Bird Dialect Records, Caspian Yurisich, Experimental, LP, Men Of Fortune, Post-Rock, Progressive, Review, Time Lovingly Bled

Men Of Fortune – hard to pigeonhole, hard to review. They sort of sound like a lot of things, but

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Album & EP Reviews M 

Mountain God ‘Experimentation On The Unwilling’ CS/DD 2013

23rd December 20133rd September 2019 Caspian Yurisich 2013, Caspian Yurisich, Cassette, Digital, Doom, Experimentation On The Unwilling, Heavy, Mountain God, Post-Rock, Review, Self Released, Sludge

I love it when a band does something new within a template “innovating” shouldn’t necessarily mean adding a bunch of

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