Xisuma's Musical Journey

  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.....

With foundations of extreme and cultural aesthetic resolute and intact, Saor embarks on this latest venture through the shackles of familiar...

  Reveling in glum and stormy scenery, drizzly guitars moan and slumberous singing swoons to be routinely assailed by gleams of heathen melo...

  Relinquishing the failed detours of Requiem and Octagon , this ninth installment, supposedly compromised of mostly unreleased material fr...

Macabre Omen's mighty Greek mythology inspired take on Black Metal had carved a memorable niche. With word of a new record I snapped up ...

Ones body will be scared by age but so shall the mind! It seems almost criminal that the brilliance of Hammerheart has faded in reputation...

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

Borknagar, I remember! The glum shed on a fog swept field, a typically unreadable and yellow band logo atop the image. Their first albu...

My introduction to Saor was a breath of fresh air beginning with their sophomore record Aura . Out from the now decades old genre of Bl...

It was a huge surprise to learn of an In The Woods... reunion two years back. After sixteen years on ice, three of the original band ma...

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

There's always music to be discovered and this year at Download Festival I decided to wander over to the forth stage while grabbin...

Ive been awaiting this record for some time, Saor, a one man band, really impressed me with his last release " Aura ", a fine...

Surprises seem to be common this year and there is certainly a contest for most "unexpected". The news of a new record almost...

Who are Moonsorrow? A Finnish band from the counties capital Helsinki who define themselves as "Heathen Metal" in an attempt ...

Purchasing a couple of records at a gig I went to recently, the seller encouraged me check out his band and I'm very glad I did! ...