The Inevitable Demise of Everything: An Interview with Niklas Sundin
“Rymdsynthskivor skall göras av rymdsynthmänniskor!” Synth electronics and metal music have many points of shared history. Outside the use of synth in genres such as power metal and melodic death, there was also that period of time where black metal musicians in Scandinavia started to make synth albums and it sort of became its own...
On "AR," Kollapse Examines Death, Suffering, and Letting Go (Early Album Stream)
Gather around for aural cleansing: the rumbling introductory notes on AR are likely to dislodge some earwax, and maybe a few jammed-up neurons too. Hailing from Denmark, Kollapse bring a tumultuous blend of sludge, post-metal, and noise rock that’s painstakingly minimalist even as it levels listeners’ entire foundations. Despite my previous remark, the album is...
Mother of All Challenge the "Pillars" Of the World Through Incensed Melodic Death Metal (Early Track Stream)
Bitterness and unrest shape Mother of All‘s new album Global Parasitic Leviathan nearly as much as its melodic inclinations do — it’s tempting to imagine that the band’s contempt for established power structures naturally warped what was originally saccharine melodic death metal into a vicious hybrid beast, but the bristling steel core of this record...