Xisuma's Musical Journey

Monday, 6 October 2025

Slaughter To Prevail "Grizzly" (2025)

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  Despite the impressive talents of vocalist Alex Terrible, I've suffered the misfortune of writing off these masked menaces as another ...
Sunday, 5 October 2025

IGORRR "Amen" (2025)

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  A clear contender for album of the year, French mastermind IGORRR returns with Amen, an unflinching committal to a bastardized union of Gl...
Saturday, 4 October 2025

Seotaiji "Seotaiji VI" (2000)

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  Having scraped the barrel of Nu Metal treasures from my youth, this recent surge of revivalist bands like  Tetrarch , Ocean Grove and  Na...
Friday, 3 October 2025

Esoterica "Ether Metal" (2025)

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  Its title may just suggest a new genre of metal but no such concept awaits. Conjuring a compliment to its balance gentle melodies, metalli...
Thursday, 2 October 2025

Enya "Enya" (1986)

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  To experience it at the time, would have been something else. To now venture back to her origin after reveling in such masterful inspirati...
Wednesday, 1 October 2025

Oscillotron "Sniezna" (2025)

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Seeking revival through experimentation,  Oscillotron lands on a firm identity with succinct ties to its space horror ambience origins. Lea...
Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Enya "The Memory Of Trees" (1995)

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This could be my now established familiarity with Enya 's remarkable music but The Memory Of Trees has a touch of "by the numbers...
Friday, 19 September 2025

Drudkh "Shadow Play" (2025)

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  As one of the finer Black Metal acts from decades gone by, Ukrainian outfit Drudkh's part natural, part mystic has always held my curi...
Thursday, 18 September 2025

Lorna Shore "I Feel The Everblack Festering In Me" (2025)

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  Current darlings of Extreme Metal, with a swiftly growing popularity, Lorna Shore seem poised to take off. This second incarnation with i...
Wednesday, 17 September 2025

Enigma "Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!" (1996)

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Album number three, Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi! arrives an amorphus evolution of previous ideas. The prior potiency of Worldbeat dimishes ...
Sunday, 14 September 2025

Enya "Shepherd Moons" (1991)

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  Understated yet sublime, Enya returns with a seemingly subdued take on her previously adventurous, occasionly tropical music. Shedding the...
Friday, 12 September 2025

Ho99o9 "Tomorrow We Escape" (2025)

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Where once a clear vision of anarchic rebellion stood fulled by societal frustrations and obligatory anger, Ho99o9 have descended into an e...
Thursday, 11 September 2025

Enigma "The Cross Of Changes" (1993)

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  In a pleasant surprise, it seems this assembly of musicians was no fluke. Evolving from MCMXCa.D. , the group lean further into the Worldb...
Monday, 8 September 2025

Enya "Watermark" (1988)

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  A Day Without Rain made quite the impression, Watermark has a similar revelry in the sublime. Released twelve years prior, Enya's mus...
Saturday, 6 September 2025

Enigma "MCMXCa.D." (1990)

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Catching my ear through the Spotify playlist shuffle, a curiosity was peaked given its early release date. This both felt and sounded like a...
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