Author: Alex de Borba
Alex de Borba
Bogotá, Colombia
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Paradise Lost: Shattering the Illusion of Hope and Embracing the Fall in ‘Ascension’
Subverting its own title, the Halifax legends’ seventeenth album rejects spiritual transcendence for a crushing, guitar-driven confrontation with mortality. It…
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Paradise Lost: Surveying the Terrain of Melancholy in ‘Salvation’
Returning after a five-year silence, the progenitors of gothic doom unveil a cinematic meditation on hope and despair. Through the…
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Alkaloid: Weaponizing Baroque Against the Cosmic Emptiness with ‘Bach Out of Bounds’
Alkaloid dismantles the barrier between the sacred and the profane, fusing Bach’s divine order with the technical fury of death…
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Draconian: A Gnostic Ritual Returns to Bogotá’s Teatro Astor Plaza
Swedish doom masters Draconian return to the High Andes, where Gnostic theology and Bogotá’s deep-seated melancholia converge to transform a…
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Katatonia: Raising the Sanctuary of Sorrow at Capital Live Music in Bogotá
In the perpetual gray of the High Andes, the return of Katatonia to Bogotá marks a spiritual convergence where Nordic…
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Dark Tranquillity: Uniting Gothenburg Melancholy with Andean Passion at Teatro Astor Plaza
Thirty years of the Gothenburg Sound converge with the deep-seated resilience of the Colombian capital, transforming a commemorative concert at…
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Black Spikes: A Retrospective Descent into the Imperial Abyss with ‘NIL’
Months after its release, ‘NIL’ remains a dense, suffocating masterpiece that demands excavation rather than casual consumption. This retrospective dissects…
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Worm: Exhuming the Ostentatious Gold of 1996 with ‘Necropalace’
As the Floridian shapeshifters graduate to Century Media Records, they trade the humidity of the Everglades for the freezing aristocratic…
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Genus Ordinis Dei: ‘The Land East Of Eden,’ ‘Awakening’ and the Exegesis of the Exile
Italian symphonic death metal band Genus Ordinis Dei chronicles the first murder on their new sonic opera, ‘The Land East…
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Novembre: Painting a Work of Mediterranean Melancholy with ‘Words of Indigo’
In a triumphant return, the Roman pioneers of atmospheric doom weave a tapestry of “sun-drenched mourning.” ‘Words of Indigo’ is…
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Ellaya Yefymova: Processing Trauma Through Art and ‘Memento Vivere’
Ukrainian artist Ellaya Yefymova discusses her philosophical shift from “remember death” to “remember to live,” processing the trauma of war,…
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Herejía: ‘In Nomine Obscuritatis,’ a Symphonic Requiem for the Departed
The Colombian institution Herejía rises from tragedy’s shadow to unveil a monumental act of necromancy. Titled ‘In Nomine Obscuritatis,’ this…
