Xisuma's Musical Journey

Tuesday, 21 October 2025

Sabaton "Legends" (2025)

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Sabaton peaked my interest with two mighty world war one themed records, Great War and  The War To End All Wars . New and naive to their so...
Saturday, 18 October 2025

Труп Колдуна "Eternal Prisoner" (2025)

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  Despite the shoddy stark presentation and tacky musical quirks reeking of "low effort", my time with Eternal Prisoner has taught...
Monday, 13 October 2025

Author & Punisher "Nocturnal Birding" (2025)

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  Contender for album of the year, Nocturnal Birding leaves me with a sense of guilt. As a renewed appreciation of brilliance settles in, I ...
Sunday, 12 October 2025

Труп Колдуна "Melodies For Ghosts" (2025)

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  Competing with a slew of low effort bedroom producers, this stark cover art aesthetic suggested such presumptions, the phoned in part at l...
Saturday, 11 October 2025

Old Sorcery "The Escapist" (2025)

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  One of the greatest artists to emerge from the bloated Dungeon Synth scene, Old Sorcery blazes a trail of excellence, transforming decrepi...
Wednesday, 8 October 2025

Thornhill "Heroine" (2022)

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  Thornhill are an undoubtedly curious band. Inescapable of Deftones ' shadow, yet vibrantly engrossing as familiar ideas find themselve...
Tuesday, 7 October 2025

Enya "Amarantine" (2005)

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 Potentially saturating my own Enya experience, Amarantine has struck me as a step backwards for such an esteemed, visionary artist. Held a...
Monday, 6 October 2025

Slaughter To Prevail "Grizzly" (2025)

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  Despite the impressive talents of vocalist Alex Terrible, I've suffered the misfortune of writing off these masked menaces as another ...
Sunday, 5 October 2025

IGORRR "Amen" (2025)

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  A clear contender for album of the year, French mastermind IGORRR returns with Amen, an unflinching committal to a bastardized union of Gl...
Saturday, 4 October 2025

Seotaiji "Seotaiji VI" (2000)

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  Having scraped the barrel of Nu Metal treasures from my youth, this recent surge of revivalist bands like  Tetrarch , Ocean Grove and  Na...
Friday, 3 October 2025

Esoterica "Ether Metal" (2025)

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  Its title may just suggest a new genre of metal but no such concept awaits. Conjuring a compliment to its balance gentle melodies, metalli...
Thursday, 2 October 2025

Enya "Enya" (1986)

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  To experience it at the time, would have been something else. To now venture back to her origin after reveling in such masterful inspirati...
Wednesday, 1 October 2025

Oscillotron "Sniezna" (2025)

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Seeking revival through experimentation,  Oscillotron lands on a firm identity with succinct ties to its space horror ambience origins. Lea...
Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Enya "The Memory Of Trees" (1995)

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This could be my now established familiarity with Enya 's remarkable music but The Memory Of Trees has a touch of "by the numbers...
Friday, 19 September 2025

Drudkh "Shadow Play" (2025)

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  As one of the finer Black Metal acts from decades gone by, Ukrainian outfit Drudkh's part natural, part mystic has always held my curi...
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