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  Mysterium “Cimmerian Storm” (Sonorous Night, 2024)   Mysterium is a Norwegian Black Metal entity, a quite recent one for that matter. The man behind it is Are Liseth (Altertum, Cage of Torment, Illvilje, Infernal Wind, Moonshrine, Through Your Eyes, Vorgfang). If I may, Vorgfang is amazing. Please go check it out. I adore that this work carries melodies of old, an almost palpable sense of ancient times. I know that many bands try to replicate all the atmosphere, and many are able to put it into their music, but it is always a pleasure when you hear the music, and you feel taken back in time when you first discovered Black Metal. Musically speaking, what we have is straightforward Black Metal, and nothing else. But this is what we are looking for, this sort of sound! it is raw, but also melodic, it is reminiscent of old days, yet it does not sound dated! I will not say that it sounds like a simple replica, for it does not! It holds on to a beautiful sound, a sound tha...

  Shoegazy Alternative I am old enough to have live through the Nu Metal era and see how it impacted on the global Music scene. As a young lad, one would despise many of the bands labelled as Nu Metal, and praise those that rebelled against it, putting out music that was even more brutal than what they did before, as a way to show a sort of “fear us, weaklings” attitude. Looking back at it, it made no sense, and it only showed a caveman behaviour one tends to associate with Heavy Metal. Today, I ignore what does not have an impact on me. I like it, I listen to it, I do not like it, I do not listen to it. Is it not simple? Indeed, it is… I did enjoy some of the bands that were “thrown” into the pit of emotionless and unclassy music, because they were – and still are – actually great musicians, that really never lived the scene, never rode that wave, per se. A band like the Deftones, for instance, one can consider them as being part of such scene to a certain extent, yes; however...