Xisuma's Musical Journey

    Working back through Motionless In White's discography, I've anticipated hearing amateurish songwriting born of their Metalcore ...

  Proceeding their latest effort Scoring The End Of The World , Disguise plays through similar rebellious dystopian motifs. Downtrodden and ...

   Its time for a fresh journey! Seems I'm late to the party on this rising act. Motionless In White were a dead turn off on first impre...

  Excitement swiftly squashed, another cast iron installment diminishes my faith once again. In retrospect, my expectations were unreasonabl...

   I'm under the impression that front man Steele was responsible for much of Type O Negative 's musical writing. It blossoms again ...

  Consistency is a thickly thing among bands amassing the years and albums. Maturing into their second decade, I anticipated a dip. With a s...

 On initial exposure, a singular overt obvious influence and echoes of October Rust 's Gothic glory hung overhead, looming like a curse....

  With age comes a diminishing pace. Now five years apart from The Other Side , Gothminister makes a meager return. Seemingly stuck in their...

  Smoothing out the oddities of torturous experimental sound design and crass, filthy humor, Type O Negative deliver a cohesive, lengthy al...

  Casting a shadow over their debut effort, Type O Negative return to encapsulate the early 90s alternative vibes under their eclectic Goth...

  Despite having a legendary status in their own right, this cult American band had eluded me until recently. I'd seen plenty of Type O ...

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

  My metallic ventures of late have leaned towards nostalgia. This path however, id not previously indulged with. Uncovering this European s...

  Upon reading comments and critiques on Almost A Dance lay proclamations of a broader movement in Metal at the time, one that promised mor...

 Released between two of my personal tens, the musky symphonic gloom of Always... and the warm, youthful ascension of Mandylion , you'...

    Stuck in a familiarity fatigue, my soft spot for Cradle Of Filth still yearned. Their recent revival of form through Hammer Of The Witc...

  Imagine my excitement, the triumphant roar of Jumalten Aika still gnawing at the back of my mind, a new Moonsorrow record on the horizon,...

The allure of romanticized gothic tales and cryptic ethereal extremity was too much to resist. Always mystified by the early Cradle Of ...

Stripping back on some of its Avant-Guarde songwriting and non-metal instrumentation, bar sparing acoustic guitars, Swedish outfit At T...

Blown away by their fantastic sophomore record Mareridt I tracked back two years for their debut full length. Simply titled M, we hear...