Author: Alex de Borba
Alex de Borba
Bogotá, Colombia
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Rock al Parque Reaches Thirty Years in Bogotá This October
As Rock al Parque reaches its thirtieth edition this October, the free Bogotá festival built by public policy still awaits…
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Hesperia Weaves the Forgotten Lore of Marche Into ‘Picenum’
Solo act Hesperia weaves his late grandmother’s voice into ‘Picenum,’ an extreme metal reckoning with Marche’s cursed lords and witches.
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Neurosis Joins Bogothrash at Bogotá’s Ozzy Company
Neurosis headlines the opening round of Bogothrash Sessions, reactivating its 1995 record while six unsigned Bogotá acts compete for a…
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Naïwyn’s Azgaal Summons a Punishing Angel in ‘Divine Hitman’
France’s Azgaal channels a punishing angel from Jewish mysticism into ‘Divine Hitman,’ extending one man’s occult vision to a new…
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Teratum Wage ‘Ordnance of Spiritual Warfare’ From Sweden
The Swedish quartet’s debut EP inherits Beastiality’s black-thrash violence while reaching for a far older vocabulary of spiritual combat.
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Agonanist Sets ‘The Spirit of Gravity’ to Microtones
Six years after his debut, Tyler Henthorn splits Nietzsche’s demon of inherited weight into three tunings for a scattered dissonant…
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‘Blood Rising’ Extends Redmond’s Malagasy Vampire War
Redmond continues ‘The Blood Saga’ with a second novel that roots its vampire mythology in Malagasy funerary tradition rather than…
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Grimoire Academy’s Gothic Market Returns to Escondido
Grimoire Academy’s Gothic Market sets up at the California Center for the Arts with tarot tables, bone art, and vampire-and-witch-themed…
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Fen Returns to Roots on ‘Elemental Part One: Mourning Earth’
Fen’s eighth album opens a two-album cycle rooted in East Anglia’s drained fens, carrying atmospheric black metal beyond its native…
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On ‘Maanaääri,’ Noumena Reckons with Finland’s Great Wrath
Noumena’s seventh album sets Finland’s Great Wrath to melody, testing what a specific national wound demands of a genre built…
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Mad Cave Sends Plague Doctors Into ‘Lazarus Order’
Mad Cave Studios launches an eight-issue medieval horror series casting oath-bound plague doctors against monstrous transformation.
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Shabti Send Servants on ‘Haze, Cacophony, and White Light’
A Portland trio, settled after nearly two decades of lineup change, turns an Egyptian funerary practice into a warning about…
