On the surface, the concept of ever actively reducing complexity seems fairly antithetical to entire purpose of technical death metal. Considering that this is a genre that prides itself on taking an already extreme form of music and heaping layers of further intricacy on top, why would one ever want…
When I tell you that this album is a folk black metal band that went full folk, a certain expectation of what you might hear were you to play the album immediately comes to your mind. That image probably contains expansive and lush melodies, a more melancholy vibe to the…
Death is a terrible thing, arguably the most terrible thing. But when it hits you unaware, with no preparation or warning, it’s even worse. When the person taken from us is, by all accounts, a caring, deep-feeling and innovative musician, new heights of anguish and pain can be encountered. Such was the…
For over a decade-and-a-half, mewithoutYou have been unleashing their sonically rich, idea-stuffed post-hardcore upon the world. Lashed together by frontman Aaron Weiss’ esoteric, impassioned lyricism and vocal performances and bolstered by a bass-heavy barrage of post-whatever instrumentation, the band’s tales of existential malaise, religious wrangling, and apocalyptic dread have transfixed…
