Portal would feel right at home in early 1920’s Berlin, let alone down under in their hometown of Brisbane. 2003’s Seepia was a sublimely discordant offering, and yet four years later, the jump taken goes so far beyond. Their last album, released in 2007, is named Outré. The French word outré itself is one of …
Noctambulant is the most musically complex metal album ever made. Noctambulant is the most musically complex metal album ever made. Do I need to type that again? Regrettably, a Weekly Worship article does not do the proper service to the potential volumes of analysis that could go into why such a statement is valid, but …
First off, how THE HELL does a band’s sophomore recording, mix, and master sound severely worse than a debut with less means of production? I do not goddamn know, ask Defeated Sanity. 2007’s Psalms Of The Moribund is pretty damn phenomenal, but a healthy (ha really?) appreciation of their first album, Prelude To The Tragedy, …
!T.O.O.H! or Total Obliteration Of Humanity…! have been grinding in the Czech Republic for almost 20 years. Their success is similar to that shared by bands such as Orphaned Land and Negura Bunget; taking a malleable metal template and putting a geographical spin on it has proven to be an effective method of producing unique …
In a recent interview, I noticed Daniel Mongraine react slightly when informed “The kids in Quebec, they always say, no one can play like Martyr.” He did not so much pause, but register that fact while squinting; all I could think was, he knows. Martyr are, all around, the most instrumentally proficient band that is …
Weekly Worship is a new weekly column that we are going to run, you guessed it, weekly. It is going to feature paragraph long reviews of albums that hearwax contributors love and want to share with you. So here goes #1! Circle Takes The Square – As The Roots Undo That unassuming mournful line of …