Xisuma's Musical Journey

  Shrouded by the swift abrupt judgements of youth, my initial contact deemed Nighttime Birds unfit for consumption. Supposedly not cut from...

  A conclusion for now, the last of the great Dimmu Borgir records. Death Cult Armaggedon was the first release I lapped up as a fully fl...

   The unhinged rattle of a rapturous drumming, A lone distortion guitar with a dark breeze of melody, the aura of nightly synths glistening...

From The Kovenant to Covenant, as we roll the years back you undoubtedly noticed the change in name. This is down to a dispute with an equa...

   As a precursor to another record I'll talk on tomorrow, it felt essential to lay a little groundwork with Cypress Hill's dynami...

   And now for the album where it all started for me... One of my first Black Metal records, Emperor 's almighty and majestic In The N...

Ah Meshuggah ... one of a rare few bands that pull me in like a magnet. Its been around eighteen years since I discovered the Swedish m...

Recently Ive had to revisit a particularly turbulent time in my youth and now I find myself having the perfect opportunity to talk abou...

Dirt is one heck of an iconic record. It kicks of with a frightening scream as an eruption of tempered guitar chugging kicks off their m...

With their first step a machination of musical extremity was haphazardly birthed and with the next it was mastered. Strapping Young Lad...

It feels surreal to think that twenty three years have passed since Cypress Hill put together their third and iconic Temples Of Boom. ...

Emerging as a forerunner in the formation of the short lived Nu Metal wave, Sacramento based Deftones swiftly made artistic strides to...

Having crash landed into the mainstream music world, Eminem swiftly followed up on his brilliant and wildly controversial Slim Shady LP...

My affinity for this record has never faded, back when I was a troubled teenager, as most teens typically are, this albums excessive ou...

The legendary Pantera , vanguard of Metal in the nineties, continued their succession of records with the ambitiously aggressive and vi...

Its unbelievable to think ten years have flown by but that's life. "Take To The Skies" is the unleashing of our local ban...

"Always..." may not be so, against the grain of our half life this record will be one of the first to fade from memory. Its n...

"To all the killers and a hundred dollar billars"! A Classic line from a classic song on a classic record. In 95 the Queensbr...

Its one of Norwegian Black Metal's most iconic records from the heart of the music scene which had exploded in the revelations of t...

Whatever curiosity lead you to this post I'd highly recommend opening a can of worms and giving this record a listen if your open m...