Concerts & Tours · 31.03.2026

We would like to thank Dominik (Downfall of Gaia, All Noir-PR) for the guest list spot and 4NDREAS for organizing the concert. Without them, we probably would never have discovered this fantastic band and would never have seen and experienced this concert. Together with the long-established Munich band "Verstärker," it was a cohesive and compelling musical package. Musically, "Verstärker" can be placed somewhere between Motorpsycho—in terms of the jams—Mogwai—in terms of the dreamy...

Daily Peaks · 04.03.2026

I've often wondered, what kind of voice would suit to my favorite post-rock and post-metal bands like Pelican, Russian Circles, and Toundra, and what would that voice sing about? I've known the answer ever since I first heard the French band Endeavour. It was clear to me then that the music had to be thematically situated in the delicate, fragile realm of the human soul, interpreted by a voice that perfectly balances anger, melancholy, and intensity. James Maynard Keenan of Tool and Joel...

Daily Peaks · 03.03.2026

Many thanks to my Bandcamp algorithm for suggesting this masterpiece. Despite my penchant for 3-minute rock 'n' roll songs, my brain craves unpredictable, dynamic music that caters to my tastes with bands like Tool, Amenra, Morne, Communic, Soen, Toundra, and others. This year I discovered the Catalan band Syberia and immersed myself in their walls of sound; what the Canadian band Matador achieves with their latest album borders on genius, a keen sense for the perfect balance of vocals,...

Daily Peaks · 27.02.2026

I actually hate the sound of a piano because it lacks midrange frequencies and the sound is thin despite the instrument's immense weight. It actually makes me aggressive, except for Elton John's "Song for Guy." The Belgian band "We Stood Like King" uses the piano as the lead vocalist, much like Brian Johnson of AC/DC is the saxophone in a blues-rock band. And you know what? This damn piano plays such beautiful melodies within this sometimes brutal sound, which, in my opinion, will be far too...

Unknown Pleasures · 30.01.2026

Every now and then, musical projects land in my inbox that I, as a rock 'n' roller, should really delete because they're simply not rock 'n' roll. But what they are—and this is where they share the similarity with rock 'n' roll—is emotional. It clicks like the first time I heard "Ace of Spades" in November 1980, even though it isn't "Ace of Spades." Actually, for me, "Ace of Spades" is synonymous with the perfect song that every band has. Really good bands have several "Ace of Spades" in...

Daily Peaks · 19.01.2026

Now I have the second single from the Catalan band Syberia in front of me, and the more I listen to this music, the more allusions I seem to discover. This song is simultaneously an acoustic mandala à la My Sleeping Karma, melodic and fragile like the soundscapes of Alcest, and at the same time brutal and destructive like Neurosis. It is not the usual Postrock or Shoegaze-sound and it is not the usual noise created by angry men; it has a lot of melodies inside the composition performed with a...

Heavystoned Albums · 18.12.2025

These days I switched from Safari to Brave and get ad-free music on YouTube. And also such impressive music from Obsidian Sands from Edinburgh. A lot fits into my rather extreme patterns of music; In the doomy and heavier passages it sounds very much like Morne, only to fly over the ruins of the previous soundscape with an almost jazzy lightness in the next moment. The opener "Deep Hollow Country" feels more like a longer version of Karma to Burn compared to the following songs. However, it...

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,...

Unknown Pleasures · 19.10.2025

After receiving the promotion for this album, I had to promise Luca I wouldn't write a review until around October 17th. It took me several times to place this band; somehow, I'd heard this sound and the extremely understated male vocals before. Anathema came to mind, around the "The Optimist," time. But Karma Voyage clearly have a grander plan, both in their composition and in the order of the songs. Everything the band presented in the preceding tracks—post-rock, ambient, experimental, with...

Daily Peaks · 10.09.2025

Music created with AI still has a stigma among musicians: the musician didn't create it themselves; the machine rolled the dice, only certain patterns are repeated, and the individual instrumental tracks often sound like digital garbage and Ai will do my job one day. In this Bulgarian project, the drummer seems somewhat limited to me, or the AI constantly repeats the same rolls and fills. I know this because I also play hybrid rock, where the skeleton of the song is made up of AI-generated...