Last updated on 10 July 2020
In music, you got them as well. Those lone warriors who want to go it alone and produce their very own records. Do it all, play it all, the … [...] Click to raid more!
Tag Archives: Summoning
Carach Angren – Where the Corpses Sink Forever (2012) – Review
Last updated on 5 April 2021
Epic. This denomination sometimes comes to mind for records in genres like Symphonic Metal. But very often with a pretty negative connotation attached to it.
Because time and again, many of those bands really go way over board with whatever it is they try to achieve. To the point of an identity crisis full of molten cheese, where these outfits cannot decide if they want to be an opera or not.
Now, to project such a prodigious award on an Extreme Metal or Black Metal band is relatively rare. The … [...] Click to raid more!
Second to Sun – The Walk (2018) – Review
Last updated on 10 July 2020
Dodecahedron graced us last year with some excellent fare. Icy cold was the embrace, and blazing hot the Extreme Metal. In the meantime, we enjoyed Vitrun of Carpe Noctem in all its terrifying splendor. Together with many others that must remain unnamed for sake of simplicity.
Those are all, kind of part of the same ilk. A real genre, so hidden that not many will call it music. And truly, some of that stuff is like ice picks in your brain that you cannot dislodge, until the last note gives up the … [...] Click to raid more!
Intermittent Digest – Tome VII
Last updated on 10 July 2020
Whoops! Is it mid-2018 yet? It is. And thus high time to take stock again of records that excited us at RockmusicRaider since Tome VI appeared on the screens of our esteemed fans. Meantime, the deck crew issued a new Top 10 for 2017 and hammered out yet another edition of the Old’n’Tasty series.
Now, these intermittent digests are surely no top 10 list. But some of those albums might very well end up in a hall of fame or two. And the harvest of records to date is certainly surprisingly eclectic.
So – … [...] Click to raid more!