Xisuma's Musical Journey

Its been six years since I last visited Donnington! What has the pandemic robbed me of? My hesitancy to return to live music feels like a lo...

  Nefarious made quite the excitable splash upon impact. With my apatite shaped for the lighter sides of music, a throwback to playful extre...

Shock and awe ensues, as sequenced drum machines and a burly haze of dreamy distortions descend upon the listener. Breaking for a bold singu...

  Dissecting sounds with an analytical scalpel, one can cut critiques upon a lack of overt musical progression. Deploying another bout of th...

  Admittedly, I've waited until the drop name had been unveiled to write my thoughts. With that extended exposure, its become clear that...

Dynamic duo Magdalena Bay are swiftly becoming a fascination. Stepping back in time from their ambitious, progressive  Killing Time , this d...

  Thirteen albums deep, masters of craft, juggernauts within their niche, Behemoth have little to prove. Although the bands efforts have re...

   Lingering on the cutting emotive sensations of Vessel, this newest chapter, Even In Arcadia, plays like poetry in motion, a dwell of pers...

Imaginal Disk serves as my introduction to this talented multi-instrumentalist duo Magdalena Bay. Clocking in with a mightily entertaining f...

Delightfully predictable and thus feverishly indulgent,  Tetrarch return armed with another dose of millennial teenage angst, tapping into ...

  Champions of last years musical discoveries , Labyrinthus Stellarum's exotic take on Atmospheric Black Metal runs its course, returnin...

   Spinning out another web of shadowy shoe-gazing extremity, Deafheaven return from the captivating Infinite Granite with renewed spite. ...

  Without a whiff of precariousness, our beloved titans of Metal return stuck amidst illustrious stagnation. Completely predictable yet joyo...

  As the years stretch on, I find the frequent return of familiar acts to be hit and miss process. Fortunately for a reunited In The Woods.....

  Taking a step back from the abrasive edges of Metal, Noise and Industrial, Canadian producer-rapper Backxwash returns carrying that stark ...