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Writer with a background in music reviews across a variety of genres as well as a variety of publications (Kerrang Magazine, New Noise Magazine, The Metal Observer, Metal Recusant, Destructive Music).
Occasionally writes film reviews (Asian Movie Pulse, VCinema, All Horror).
Owner of The Motorfuzzin' Ibex, a doom/stoner reviews site evolving into a fusion site covering music, beer, food, and travel.
Snow. It makes perfect sense for the UK of all places to be enveloped in sumptuously alarming March warmth one moment then receive a dusting of snow and plummeting near-freezing temperatures the next.
From X Japan to Dir en Grey to BABYMETAL and beyond, these are the Japanese rock and metal albums that everyone needs in their record collection...
Developed in the 1940s but properly finding itself two decades after, musique concrète refers to a genre of music where its individual components are deliberately distorted from their origins and is seldom concerned with the rules of traditional music composition.
Becoming kissed by the sun can leave one delirious, left in a daze fuelled by a dizzying olfactory concoction of melting tarmac and flora in full bloom.
Are you in need of a good ol'-fashioned kick up the backside? Perhaps you've been spending the past six months hibernating in some burrow whilst the rest of the world moves ever closer to the brink of annihilation; wrapping your woolen sleeves across your ever-expanding waistline with a smirk on your face which reads "fools, I'll outlive you all and rule supremely with an iron fist upon my almighty return."
It's a funkadelic boogie showtime! Shakin' down in the vaults for nigh on 16 years would test the mettle of even the hardiest of tunes, for being bereft of sunlight and outside company does peculiar things to wildly free minds.
Sweden's visionary storytellers of the left-hand path Year Of The Goat have been tapping into the grander narrative ever since the release of their 2012 debut, the award-winning Angel's Necropolis, while the pious have fought among themselves for dominance over the dominion of man.
We stagger through the haze maze that is Desertfest in London
Psychedelic Doom / Drone / Sludge Ritual Productions 58:11 United Kingdom 2019 In a tantalizing display of celestial oneness and soul-crushing darkness everything that once was vanishes within the blink of an eye. Black, nothing, gone.
In a country eleven times smaller than the state of California, intertwining narratives are likely to be more commonplace in Taiwan than its neighbours, perhaps even inescapable. Though the odds of life-changing and eye-opening events somehow involving a group of people who all somehow know each other remain slim it is more than likely there will be an unfathomable network connecting these people together.