(Andy Synn delivers another installment of his irregular series of album reviews in haiku. Two more reviews come after the jump. With music.)
DARK TRANQUILLITY – CONSTRUCT
Marriage of borrowed
And blue. Projector meets Void.
Not quite something new.
(Andy Synn delivers another installment of his irregular series of album reviews in haiku. Two more reviews come after the jump. With music.)
HACRIDE – BACK TO WHERE YOU’VE NEVER BEEN
Much more nu-metal
A change, but not for the best?
Still, there’s much to like
(Andy Synn delivers another installment of his irregular series of album reviews in haiku. Two more reviews come after the jump.)
LECHEROUS NOCTURNE – BEHOLD ALMIGHTY DOCTRINE
Behold! Death has come
Brutal, technical, caustic
Simply relentless
(Andy Synn delivers another installment of his irregular series of album reviews in haiku. There are two more after the jump.)
TAAKE – GRAVKAMRE, KRONER OG TRONER
Riffs and rage and hate
Twenty years of blasphemy
Flying the black flag
(NCS writer Andy Synn brings us more album reviews in haiku, with music. The albums are the latest releases by Shai Hulud, Horned Almighty, and Psycroptic)
SHAI HULUD – REACH BEYOND THE SUN
More honest, more real
More righteous than most. That’s right!
Shai Hulud are back!
(Andy Synn’s first installment of album reviews in haiku drew a lot of interest, and a bunch of hilarious haikus in the comments, too. So Andy decided to do it again . . . .)
Well the first edition of this was such a success that I’ve been working on several more in the time since publishing that first, relatively off-the-cuff, entry in the series.
I hadn’t originally intended to return to the well so soon, but with Islander’s work commitment cutting down on his ability to write and post to the site, “Reviews In Haikus” has become a good fallback option!
So here’s another 3 albums, irreverently reviewed in English Haiku style. There’s no real hidden puns or subtexts this time round, as no-one got my “clever” little joke/reference in the last one, so all the humour and references are nice and obviously telegraphed. Suck it, nerds.
WINTERFYLLETH – THE THRENODY OF TRIUMPH
Instinctive decay
Old souls, young blood, tales of woe
Black metal refined
(Like the title says, Andy Synn wrote this.)
You may have noticed that there are simply so many awesome albums released each year that even the nigh-omnipotent forces of NCS can’t cover them all. So in acknowledgement of this I’m inaugurating a new column, which will be produced whenever the hell I feel like it, in order to sneak in some mini-reviews of releases we’ve otherwise missed, or wouldn’t otherwise get a chance to review in full.
Welcome to “Reviews in Haikus”
GOD SEED – I BEGIN
Black prog vibrations
Savage sounds, strange atmospheres
Cultivate the seed Continue reading »