Unknown Pleasures · 15.11.2025

The album opens like a wide-screen epic, and "The Throat Ancestors’" sets the first scene. Deep throat-singing rises like smoke over endless grasslands, and suddenly we ride through the Mongolian plains with the heirs of Genghis Khan. The track feels like a fast horse pushing into the unknown, tribal and raw, with a strong nomad-rock pulse that shakes the horizon. When the dust settles, "The Verdant One" appears like a slow camera pan over green Balkan mountains. A soft shadow of Goran...

Comments & Stories · 07.10.2025

On first listen, I was almost blown away by the album, but something in my subconscious told me something wasn't quite right. So I reread the press release, which listed numerous prominent musicians, something that put me off, as someone who doesn't snoop on names. Then I listened to the lyrics and had them displayed on Spotify. Ah, Western musicians imitate oriental music because oriental music has a clear canon of themes that can be sung about. This includes unrequited love, but not love,...

Concerts & Tours · 03.08.2025

We actually meet always a bunch of friends and mates when we go to a concert in our beloved Backstage. We actually also know the bands and their members when we go to a concert. So we actually are at least 60% into social things before, during and after a concert. This time we met none of our friends and we were full into the wide spread musical diversity which offered us three fantastic bands on a rainy Sunday evening.