Monthly Archives: October 2012

Kakaxa will play at Asymmerty Festiwal 5.0!

By Ola | Published: 30 October 2012

The Ukrainian and Polish judges decided that the group KAKAXA won the Neuro Music competition and therefore they will be performing their first show in Poland.  According to invited experts, young and uncompromising artists from Odessa truly deserved the prize.  Congrats! The prize is a live act at the Asymmetry Festival 5.0 that will be [...] Read More…

MATADORES [IT]

By Ola | Published: 19 October 2012

Although there are only two of them, they can make more noise than most metal bands. Electronic duo Matadores from Verona, Italy is destroying stages in a positive kind of way. Their music is both energetic and dancing and also experimental and technical, reminding work of such bands as Mr. Bungle or Battles. Read More…

CULT OF LUNA [SWE]

By Ola | Published: 19 October 2012

Their influence on the modern metal music can’t be overrated. Along with Neurosis and Isis they are considered to be pioneers of post metal, the genre that was thriving unexceptionally at the end of the last decade. Cult of Luna’s sound is based on thee guitars and two drum sets, complex song structures and depressive [...] Read More…

SHINING [NOR]

By Ola | Published: 19 October 2012

Norway’s Shining for over ten years breaks every boundaries. Led by Jorgen Munkeby, multiinstrumentalist known from Jaga Jazzist, the band at the beginning performed acoustic jazz as a quartet. Over the course of years Shining draws toward more experimental approach, plays with Enslaved on tour and presents to the listeners in 2010 their album Blackjazz, [...] Read More…

BALAZS PANDI [HU]

By Ola | Published: 19 October 2012

Balázs Pándi is without any doubt one of the busiest drummers of our time. Nothing better describes this Hungarian artist than the names of artists and producers he collaborated with: Venetian Snares, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, Otto von Schirach, Flying Lotus, Zu, Merzbow, Blood of Heroes, Obake, Metallic Taste of Blood to name a few. [...] Read More…

METALLIC TASTE OF BLOOD [IT]

By Ola | Published: 19 October 2012

If you wonder what would result in the collaboration of the guitarist Eraldo Bernocchi (Black Engine, Obake), bassist Colin Erwin (Porcupine Tree), drummer Balázs Pándi (Venetian Snares, Obake, Merzbow) and keyboardist Jamie Saft (John Zorn), the answer will be Metallic Taste of Blood. As says Bernocchi, the band’s founder, Metallic Taste of Blood are four [...] Read More…

VON MAGNET [UK]

By Ola | Published: 19 October 2012

Von Magnet are an English collective founded in London in 1985 and gathered around Flore Magnet and Phil Von being more an artistic ensemble oscillating around theater, dance and visual arts than a regular band. Von Magnet developed a style they call themselves ‘electroflamenco’ being a mixture of electronics rooted in post industrial genre, flamenco [...] Read More…

AGALLOCH [US]

By Ola | Published: 19 October 2012

Emerging from Portland, Oregon, performing music on the verge of black metal, post rock and neofolk, since 1995 Agalloch transports listeners to the melancholic, ephemeral, yet dangerous and mysterious world of nature, which is the prominent motive in band’s lyrics. Agalloch is much praised not only amongst the fans of black metal, but also of [...] Read More…

AMENRA [BEL]

By Ola | Published: 19 October 2012

Belgian post-hardcore band led by charismatic vocalist Colin H. Van Eeckhout over the course of years developed their own, characteristic sound based on low-tuned guitars, trance inducing drums and haunting screams. Amenra’s achievements include four LP’s, numerous EP’s and splits with bands such as Oathbreaker and Hessian, also participation in many artistic projects on the [...] Read More…

Cult of Luna and Shining on Asymmetry Festival 5.0!

By Ola | Published: 19 October 2012

These bands can be Asymmetry’s trademark. Swedish behemoths Cult of Luna, Norway’s Shining and Matadores, avantgarde electronic duo from Italy are another stars to fill Centennial Hall with sounds on 1-4.05.2013. Cult of Luna are well recognized in Poland. Cult of Luna’s sound based on thee guitars and two drum sets, complex song structures and [...] Read More…