Author: Alex de Borba
Alex de Borba
Bogotá, Colombia
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Finsterforst Keep Faith With the Black Forest on ‘Still’
Finsterforst return with a sixth album after seven years, carrying Schwarzwald folklore and blast-beat severity to listeners far from the…
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Amarilla’s Debut Anthology ‘Retratos de Niños Asesinos’
A Colombian illustrator’s debut anthology turns seven tales into portraits of children edging toward monstrosity.
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Eshtadur Premieres ‘Into the Woods,’ Its Fifth Album’s Opener
Colombian band Eshtadur previews its fifth album, ‘In Darkness All Shadows Gone,’ with the crow-guided video for ‘Into the Woods.’
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‘Nosferatu Nightmares’ Returns Count Orlok to Comics
American Mythology Productions revisits the 1922 silent film’s plague-vampire in a black-and-white anthology honoring monster magazines.
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Insomnium Ready Their Tenth Album for the ‘Netherworlds’
Finland’s Insomnium follow ‘Anno 1696’ with ‘Netherworlds,’ produced by Jens Bogren, reaching a metal scene already fluent in Finnish melancholy.
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The Blood Divine and the Migration They Could Not Survive
Two records apart, a Colchester band tried to cross from gothic doom into progressive rock in a single leap, then…
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Amphi Festival Completes Two Decades on the Rhine
The Tanzbrunnen hosts a 20th Amphi Festival arranged around gothic rock, EBM, and darkwave veterans, from Clan of Xymox to…
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Reading the Bandaged Figure on Anathema’s ‘Serenades’
Penprase’s sepia tableau turns a horse skull and wrapped body into a study of concealment that fronts a debut caught…
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Litosth Turn Golgotha Into an Indictment on ‘Dreaming’
Litosth’s fourth album turns Golgotha and Byzantine iconoclasm into a Brazilian argument against inherited faith and structured belief.
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Firtan Turn the Annihilating Light Inward on ‘Helios’
The German band’s fifth album binds Greek solar myth to Sanskrit philosophy, and reaches an international underground that hears it…
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Septon Scores the Open Wounds of Colombian History
An independent Barranquilla band grounds symphonic metal in Romantic and Impressionist repertoire, then aims it at Colombia’s historical wounds.
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Jen Julian’s ‘The Winter Folk’ Renews the Faustian Bargain
Run For It publishes Jen Julian’s second novel, an Appalachian folk horror that binds a one-wish contract to Scots-Irish and…
