(((O))) Category: Features
The lyrics to ‘Accretion Disk Necropolis’ are based around this weird dream I had where there was this sprawling “graveyard” of used up/ uninhabitable planets, derelict vessels, and all this broken space-tech slowly being swallowed up by a monstrous living black hole.
David Weaver is one of the artistic directors of Core. Festival and he talks to us about 3 releases that have influenced him greatly during his musical upbringing.
MANBIRD!? I have no idea what it means. Ask Steve Hands, he came up with it. No, don’t ask him. He won’t know either. . .
Daniel Mutch from 432 Presents and Core. Festival talks to us about 3 releases that have influenced him greatly during his life, becoming the music promoter he is today.
After having seen Slowtorch perform an impressive headline set on the first day of the recent Bear Stone Festival, we asked the band about some of their influences.
Cybergrind-meets-hyperpop band Thotcrime are set to return this summer with their third full-length, Connection Anxiety, due out on August 16 via Prosthetic Records. Read about the band’s influences here.
Nothing Will Grow In The Soil arrives: exploring the role these ancient, strange trees occupy in our culture, spirituality and imaginations. Alongside this, Kitty Whitelaw’s forays into the deeper end of her register and the dark churns of McGivern’s double bass – complemented by a raft of digital effects – build a crushing, nightmarish landscape.
Completely reinventing their line-up with brass and percussion into a new hot and raw sci-fi sound, OSEES share ‘Earthling’, the psychedelic second single from their upcoming LP, SORCS 80, due later this year via Castle Face Records. Frontm …
Sweden’s stalwart, slow burning post-rock outfit Oh Hiroshima return with their 5th album ‘All Things Shining’. Read the track by track guide here.
NYC synth-punks Bangladeafy released their new album ‘Vultures’ today. We asked Jon Ehlers from the band about 3 albums that have influenced their music a lot.
Canadian experimental guitarists Aidan Baker & Eric Quach originally formed Hypnodrone Ensemble in Berlin, Germany in 2014 to explore the conjunctions of atmospheric, space rock-ish, shoegazery music with motorik, krautrock-ish, propulsive beats to offer immersive, psychedelic, and transportive performances.
We thought it about time we prised open some of the the paranormal power-trio’s secrets, so we asked them to share three records that inspired and influenced All The Colours Of Darkness.
Party doom riff merchants GURT released their new album ‘Satan Etc’ last week, so we asked the band about some of their influences.
This song is about the end of the world. Or is it? In tarot the Death card signifies deep transformation rather than physical death. Perhaps that’s where we’re heading – a brave new world.
Sacrament is the album that puts you right in the middle of danger, horror, eerie stories coming to life, and the ascending nightmare that’ll take you closer to the edge and descend into madness.










