By The Mistweaver To the uninitiated, the world of Depressive Suicidal Black Metal (DSBM) is an absolute anomaly. When people look at the bleak imagery or the jarring aesthetics of bands like Silencer, Psychonaut 4, Shining, Nocturnal Depression, Lifelover or Dymna Lotva, they inevitably struggle to comprehend its purpose. The common assumption is that it…
An interdimensional dialogue with The Mistweaver The Mistweaver To truly understand the forward facing momentum of a modernunderground extreme music, I kind of had to seek out artists who refuse to carvetheir work into more like predictable pre-packaged shapes as that’s getting kind ofboring of course. And the issue is that the extreme music scene…
There is a tedious, exhausting ritual that takes place in the dark rock scene whenever a legacy band shifts its vocal architecture. For over six years, the online gatekeepers have thrown a continuous shitstorm at frontman Julian Larre, trying to trap the band within a rigid, nostalgic box. It is a critique so predictable that…
Review: The 69 Eyes – Brandon Lee (Forma Acustica) If our ongoing war against the extreme scene’s gatekeepers requires a definitive weapon, it is the glorious, un-black-metal-y romance of the Helsinki Vampires. For nearly four decades, The 69 Eyes have stood as the undisputed kings of leather-jacket-clad, cigarette-smoke goth rock – marrying the sleazy swagger…