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.....

  Devoid of that alluring magic felt on  The Turning Wheel , experimental musician and singer-songwriter Spellling returns with a stiff set ...

    A record to turn heads, or ears, Absolute Elsewhere dazzles with esoteric evocations whilst conjuring unexpected tangents aeons apart fr...

  This fine record has brought several weeks of routine enjoyment, however the latest offering from these veterans suffers its own familiar ...

  Daughter of famed rapper slash actor Will Smith, the last I heard of Willow were remarks on her adolescent entry into pop music on Will...

  After a few years absence, our dexterous dazzling guitarist Sithu Aye returns on a charmed spirit. Armed with the cultured croon of slick...

Still lingering in the shadows cast by Woman , an eight year wait hasn't yielded much excitement. The Disco-Funk inspired French duo ret...

  Is this our first heavy hitter? An obvious contender for my album of the year, Kyros deliver on an enticing Esoterica teaser. All three t...

  Here's a release I overlooked, The Tiberian Sons ' first album re-imagining video game music within the Prog Metal format. Anthems...

  Pure joy! With no complaints and no surprises, Plini returns on another triumphant roar of Jazzy, melodic, Progressive Metal. Again, five...

Looking beyond Command & Conquer, The Tiberian Sons paint a lively love letter to another 90s game franchise. I've never played Nam...

  Although just a three track single, Esoterica's lengthier twenty minutes make it feel worthy of comment. The music however, certainly ...

  With an apatite for this early breed of Djent adjacent Progressive Metal, my hopeful searches of a scene rummaged through before exposed l...

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

  Following up on L.D. 50 , here is another "what could have been" record of my Nu Metal era youth. I vividly remember a close fri...

  After two dubious lock-down escapades, Devin Townsend returns to form with familiar footing. Leaning into his glossed up, cloudy yet punc...

  Last I heard of then Texans Polyphia, they were lumped in a then emerging Djent camp. Still echoing time signature grooves and the guitar ...

  On their third outing with the classic lineup, a firm end to metallic components is all to apparent, The Gathering drop both song style a...

  Obnoxious rhythmic fluctuations take lead, the Saxophone sits central, a lone expressive voice articulating simple expressions over a surr...

  Suffering the meaty bloat of a double disk, lengthy escapade, Vox Humana reaches far. Seeking heavens, with spirit and inspiration guiding...