Jupiter Variation

Times are (still) very busy but I am still trying my best to reserve some moments for writing and post some overdue reviews. Three, but nevertheless noteworthy albums are what we present this week. Et voilà... Plague Weaver - Ascendant Blasphemy Plague Weaver is a Black/Doom metal band from Canada created back in 2018. They had released their debut EP in 2019 which was followed in early 2020 by another EP named ‘Through the Sulphur Eyes’. In 2020, after adding a new vocalist,

2020 may be soon coming to its end but apparently still has to offer some noteworthy albums. Promos of upcoming releases, most of them due for the first quarter of 2021 are already arriving in my mailbox. For the last blog post of 2020, I have selected 7 of them. Enjoy! Ablaze My Sorrow can be considered as scene veterans as they have been active since 1993. After a disbandment in 2006 and a reformation in 2012, February 2021 will see them releasing their new record Among Ash

"Everything Lies In Pieces", this quite dramatic and pessimistic title pretty much describes the music content of the debut full-length (they have also released two split-albums) by the German band Kratzer. D-Beat Hardcore with the melodies being their strong point making songs like Staub, Error, Dreck, ...Und Alles Liegt In Scherben the highlights of the album. The "polished" production and the strong metal influences may estrange Crust Punk aficionados and purists however f

I had heard the name Fuck the Facts as a band before but I had never had the chance to listen to any of their material until now. Their name and the head title: Canadian Bastardized Grindcore which is prominently displayed in their Bandcamp page were enough to make me think that they are just one more of those Grindcore/Goregrind bands where incoherent noises originating from an underproduced mixture of instruments and growls, is "sold" as music. I don't want to sound conserv

Houkago Grind Time is a one-man Grind core project from USA and "their" debut album Bakyunsified (Moe to the Gore) is due to be released in November. I have to say that I am not very much knowledgable about the anime/manga culture therefore I do not get the reference behind the band's name but that does not really matter since for me it was not difficult to be positively preoccupied about the album after reading in the press release that the lyrical content is a message to fr