White City formed in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2006 as a form of rock-therapy in the midst of conflict.
Since then, Aussie Travka, Brit Ru and Swede Andronik have toured every country ending in ‘stan', put on Afghanistan’s first post-Taliban rock festival – Sound Central – and have been at the centre of Kabul’s burgeoning rock scene. With a tour diary web series, “Big In The Stans”, they’ve been featured in press worldwide, but still rehearse in a home-made bunker made of sandbags. In late 2013, they recorded their début album “Landlocked”. They have just returned from their first ever tour in the West, which included 2 shows at SXSW.
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Faces of Insanity, troisième album du groupe russe Epitimia, est parsemé de concepts psychiatriques mais le plus important est, je pense, celui du test de Rorschach : ce qui compte, ce n'est pas la perception mais l'interprétation. Pour encourager à cet effort, il est à double tranchants, en noir et blanc : la production, les guitares et le chant ont le tranchant du DSBM (Epitimia se rapproche de Psychonaut 4 sur la cinquième piste) mais les mélodies sont très riches, voire groovy. C'est fort ! Jordan Vauvert
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Californian quartet defining themselves as Sci-Fi black metal, maybe due to cosmic and interstellar topics, sounding like blackened death metal too ("The Maw"). It's a well-balanced melodic black metal album, with some fast-paced tracks and nice rhythmic transitions reminding me of Swiss band Celtic Frost (e.g. Terminal Odyssey). In other words not overly dominated by drum speed and also not sounding as extreme or as raw as some BM can be. sachavonkarl74
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I think I discovered this one (well, Saor in general) in 2022. In addition to an embalming soundtrack go-to, it's definitely a cold-weather favorite. skyturtles
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Quel que soit le genre abordé, Saman Nu ne se contente jamais d'une seule couleur. Il utilise les mêmes pinceaux sur Silent Path que sur Ekove Efrits avec une pallette beaucoup moins flamboyante, toute en nuances de noirs. Si Mourner Portraits respecte avec talent les codes du black metal dépressif (avec guitares répétitives lancinantes et tempo lent), ce sont les atmosphères qui sont encore une fois le vrai point fort, véhiculant désespoir total voire pures visions d'horreurs liées à la guerre. Jordan Vauvert