switzerland

Encyclopaedia Metallum is a great metal resource, but it’s a funny beast. “Metalcore” bands like Himsa and Premonitions of War aren’t listed, but to my ears they’re pretty much metal bands. However, Switzerland’s Nucleus Torn makes the cut, even though the vast majority of its debut full-length, Nihil (Prophecy Productions, 2006), is un-metallic. I suppose […]

When I heard that members of Knut and legendary Swiss tech-grinders Nostromo had formed a new band called Mumakil, I knew I had to hear them. And when their label, Overcome, posted clips on its site that scared the shit out of me every time I visited, I had to track them down. And track […]

Nostromo was a Swiss band that formed in the late ’90s and called it quits around 2004. With its odd meters and polyrhythms, the group sounded like if Meshuggah played grindcore. It put out an EP and three full-lengths, including an all-acoustic (!) CD/DVD called Hysteron Proteron. Ecce Lex (on Overcome) came out in 2002 […]