Posts Tagged ‘avant-garde metal’

Sigh may be a name synonymous with avant-garde metal weirdness, but such shock has inevitably become formula after over two decades of it. The band’s eleventh full-length album is business as usual, featuring all the hyperactive genre-hopping and [...]

Off the top of my head, I can think of very few labels that have had a better 2018 than Poland’s Pagan Records, who’ve released outstanding albums from Mordor, Kły, Varmia, and Above Aurora, just to name a few. Here’s another one to add [...]

What started as a “fuck you” response to a racist troll on 4chan has become one of the more divisive acts in music today. For anyone that hasn’t had their ear to the ground for the past couple years, Zeal & Ardor is the project of Swiss-American [...]

Percussionist Dan Weiss, whose funeral doom background includes a stint with Bloody Panda on their album Pheromones (2007), collected five experimental musicians, including himself, to produce a provocative and decidedly dark jazz album. He teamed up with [...]

­ Here’s a lede you probably weren’t expecting: when I was first approached about interviewing Koniec Pola, I had every intention of saying no. Why? It definitely wasn’t because I didn’t like Cy, the Polish quintet’s debut [...]

After you listen to metal for a while, you may occasionally find yourself thinking they’ve heard it all. Every odd time signature, every avant-garde, dissonant riff, every combination of unrelated genres, and every overlong genre handle (progressive [...]

It’s an undisputed fact that the French make great black metal. Whether it’s French Canadian (Cantique Lepreux, Fortresse) or from France (Deathspell Omega, Celestia) when I see the word “French” used to describe a black metal [...]

I absolutely adore Japanese experimental metal trio Boris, but sweet mother of fuck they don’t make it easy. Between their extremely prolific nature—they’ve released 23 full-lengths over the last 25 years, plus more collaborations, splits, EPs, and live [...]