My Music Path

On the 28th Of August, progressive death metal band Wills Dissolve releases their second album 'Echoes' on Hypnotic Dirge Records.  Tracklist: 1. Echoes (31:36) With just one track that lasts half an hour the band from Houston, Texas takes you on a journey into the endless void of space. To name their record ' Echoes ' takes guts. Obviously, the band is hugely influenced by Pink Floyd and their masterpiece ' Echoes ' is unparalleled. However, Wills Dissolve pulls out all the stops. They paint a science fictional picture of a star-filled purple vortex. In the end, a giant black hole lurks, like the mouth of an all-devouring cosmic giant.   The story is about an astronaut who travels to the outer rims of space to find a new home for humanity. Musically we hear a wide variety of influences; the clean guitar parts take you back to the quieter parts Rush's 2112 with Mikael Akerfeldt from Opeth on vocals. When the death metal kicks in the growls sound like the O...

Somewhere in the Sonoran desert, a man is walking wearing an old filthy cloak of old sheep wool, his face hidden in a cowl. That’s what came to mind when I saw this artwork. It’s made by Kieran Wakeman from Divine Art Chaos. It is unsettling, mysterious, raw and it fits perfectly with the music on the second album of the one-man project Light Dweller ‘Hominal’ . Tracklist: 1. 13:12 2. Thrall Beguiled 3. Isolation Devalorize 4. Sequester 5. Chasm Of Limbs 6. Sciolist 7. Dogma Harlot 8. Herd Animal Have you ever bought a record purely based on the artwork? I have and sometimes it was a success just like this record. Cameron Boesch is the main man and only man behind this black/death metal beast of an album. With his talent and creativity, he makes ‘Hominal’ a highpoint of technical black/death metal. Everything sounds so devastatingly heavy like you’re in a sandstorm that suffocates you. The double bass drum, the gut-punching palm-muted guitars, the deep growls make for a trip down a ‘C...

For years I’m really intrigued by the Polish artist Zdzislaw Beksínski. His paintings are otherworldly, immensely dark and utterly beautiful. They represent my inner world so perfectly it’s scary. So when I saw the album cover of the German death metal band Cosmovore I immediately knew I had to listen to it.  Tracklist: 1. Into the Necrosphere 2. Vessel 3. The Watchers 4. All-Devourer The band is shrouded in mystery, the internet doesn’t know who the band members are, how long they’ve been around or where they get their socks. Here’s what we do know: they’re from Augsburg, Bavaria and that’s pretty much it. O and they made an EP called 'Into The Necrosphere' , and it‘s atmospheric blackened death metal from the highest order. If you like Ulcerate and Portal then Cosmovore is right up your alley. This album thrives on the lugubrious dark core of fear and expands it to a whole new level. I mean, the guitars sound like razor-sharp winds that tear your skin apart, just listen to ...