Daily Peaks · 06.12.2025
At first, I was curious because I wasn't familiar with SYBERIA from Barcelona. The press release linked to a YouTube video for their new song "llampecs d’oblit d’uns records en vida," (flashes of oblivion of memories in life) so I clicked on it and was greeted by a scene I know well from our travels through Catalonia: Cercs on the Llobregat River, the Via Verde road running alongside the river, and the former Cercs power plant. The video's narrative takes us through the Llobregat Valley,...
Heavystoned Albums · 13.03.2025
We discovered RYR during the 2024 edition of Stoned from the Underground and in fact, the small tent stage was not the right stage for this broad and wide spread kind of music. Not in 2024. I have to quote my article: "Ryr's music is somewhere between doom, shoegaze, post-rock and ambient black metal, spiced up with a pinch of noise. The initially delicate structures of melodies and single notes were destroyed over the course of the songs by brutal riffs and volume, only to be carefully put...
Daily Peaks · 20.02.2025
The Polish post-metal/post-rock band Traces to Nowhere released the highly acclaimed album "Lost Tribe" in 2024. They now present the album "Live at the Church," recorded in an abandoned evangelical church in Wielbark. Traces to Nowhere plays a blend of post-metal, post-rock, and industrial, with inspirations from the more widely understood alternative genre, even with a touch of trip-hop. Traces to Nowhere's songs are primarily heavy, multi-layered compositions enriched with melodic vocals....
