Xisuma's Musical Journey

  From the outset The Fear Of Fear expresses itself as a heavier incarnation, casting aside the delicate yet persuasive balance of intricate...

Somehow once deaf to their charm, I initially passed on Eternal Blue. Returning now a few years later, I've cracked what in retrospect s...

  Illuminating attention with an engulfing dreary charm, Graywave, brainchild of Jess Webberley, intensifies their dense Shoegazing Ethereal...

  Following up on the three tracks of Gordian Naught , Parrhesia's six other songs follow in a typical vein for this band. Complexing in...

  With a dramatic withdrawal of extremity, Deafheaven emerge from a cocoon reborn in a new form both drastically different and strangely si...

  Although delayed by the Pandemic, French Metal outfit Gojria's seventh record, Fortitude, marks an increasing gap between records with...

 Underwhelmed by the soft and withdrawn, forever wandering Kaiho , the Estonian outfit Kauan return again. Having forever earned my interes...

Plunging into a world of maniacal self deprecation, Chelsea Wolfe and Jess Gowrie team up for a short collaborative effort. Its sleazy na...

Returning from a cosmic darkness of maddening psychedelic infused in the Black Metal abyss, Finish outfit Oranssi Pazuzu serve up anoth...

Years on from the serine glory of Les Voyages De L'Âme , I find myself poised in a spot many bands put me in when they stick with a...

While working on their forth full length album, Ukrainian Djent and Metalcore hybrid outfit Jinjer have put out this short, twenty min...

I will forever have an eye on this band after their timely and glorious Language . Their following effort Clairvoyant was a fair recor...

Years have passed since Dustwalker and Carrion Skies , two records I was keen to check out but felt far from the magic of their debut ...

The British Progressive Metal outfit Tesseract have been on my radar since their very inception way back when in the the early naughtie...

It should be said that Toska are worth far more than the time and words I put into their records. With the fifteen or more spins I have...

Following up on their promising demo 72826 , American Alternative Rock outfit Tool put together Opiate, an EP consisting of six tracks,...

I'm not new to Tool. I've been well aware of their reputation for many years but never found my way into their music. With a Do...

The bizarre, psychedelic album art is a fitting match for Japaneses titans Dir En Grey's latest project. The unconventional element...

I caught the UK based trio Toska live recently at a Plini show promoting their magnificent Sunhead album. It was an engrossing perfor...

California Black Metal outfit Deafheaven , often a target of controversy among purists, return with their fourth full length record and...