Klaus Schulze is a German ambient music composer from Berlin who rose to prominence in the early/mid 70’s during the explosion of experimentation that was the Kraut-Rock scene. Klaus Schulze in particular is usually ranked up with former band mates Tangerine Dream, for cultivating and pioneering ambient music through the use of the new synthesizer [...]

Von are an American black metal band formed in 1987, and are most well known for their first and real only confirmed release, an 8 song demo from 1992 known as Satanic Blood.  The piece’s incredibly primitive, minimal approach to metal was almost unheard of it at the time, as most songs contained literally one [...]

Well, the year is done and we’re already heading into the post-Apocalypse of 2013. While I was hoping to have listened to more this year, certain technical difficulties resulted in a loss of a lot of that and so I’ve made do with what I did manage to get out of the year, which I [...]

Anyone who is a fan of long running doom metal icons, Pentagram, will know of the band Bedemon. Bedemon was formed by guitarist Randy Palmer, bassist Mike Matthews and Pentagram members Geof o’Keefe and Bobby Liebling. The sound of the band somewhat echoed what Pentagram was doing at the time, that being a Black Sabbath-based [...]

If there’s one thing I’m somewhat surprised about with the Canadian metal scene, it’s the general lack of big or recognizable names in black metal. I mean, Blasphemy are kind of a big deal, and Woods of Ypres (R.I.P David Gold) and Skagos have both gained a decent amount of fans throughout their recent careers, [...]