Xisuma's Musical Journey

Concluding our Willow journey at its origins, her debut album Ardipithecus limps by briefly tarnished with naive youthful philosophies and ...

Having tuned into Blut Aus Nord in recent years, my exploratory return into Black Metal origins had me picking out this first installment o...

  Esoteric Rites caught my ear with its fragrant attempt to establish fresh fantastical territory within a tired genre. For that, I commen...

    Predecessor to a similarly structured Van , Toilet's waning novelty grounds its impact, having listened Van prior. Elapsing from cru...

  Sudden bursts of paranoid Cybergrind madness and muddled demonic screams on its opening pair of tracks may paint a crude, unhinged impress...

  Either searching for the timeless nightly spell of Fever Ray , or listening with open ears for a new avenue, bar a few flashes of light, R...

  If Metal has stagnated in recent years, then Zeal & Ardor would be at the forefront of bands exploring new avenues for the genre. Thi...

  Now at the mercy of Spotify's algorithms, I find myself immersed in the unknown, the platform feeding me new names one after another f...

  Having played a hand in the production of Dawn FM , this curious hexagonal album cover lured me in for a listen. The one collaboration wit...

  I'm unsure of where to start, my thoughts on Caprisongs are mostly negative. Coming of the back of the remarkable Magdalene , these se...

With a wealth of music just a few clicks away, my reading tangents of band connections, genre exploration and general curiosity is no longer...

Today marks the beginning of a new era! I will no longer own my records... Finally I've got with the times and made the migration to Spo...

  Having heard the story of The Puzzle unfold through The Devin Townsend Podcast, this album is an expected disappointment. That's not t...

  Searching for gems to talk about on my youtube music channel, reciting my words on the spellbinding Dead Magic was a reminder to continue...

  The ambition and tenacity of last years I Let It In And Took Everything had me expectant of a return with refinement. Between its angular...

  Last outing, their debut CLPNG , I found myself at odds with the swift articulation of Daveed Diggs and his Avant-Guard instrumental backi...

With a new album released, I though I'd hear the group out and see where they are at these days. I've always been fond of Mushr...

Time alone justifies these ten years of evolution leading to Miss Anthropocene. Its practically unrecognizable in this infantile form, ...

Its been a wild discovery that has teetered on the border of novelty at times. The cluster bomb of cultural, historic and extreme genre...

Moving back another record from Visions we hear a distinctive shift in tone and composition that signifies the scaling evolution of Gri...