(written by Islander)

Imagine you’re staring at the face of a clock instead of this page, a clock with a sweep hand that steadily ticks away the seconds. Then imagine the clock goes haywire, the second hand and the other hands spinning instead of ticking or crawling, and then all of them suddenly spinning in the opposite direction.

That’s one way to prepare you for the Sulphuria song “La Danza Del Satiro” we’re about to present. It spins in very different directions from the kind of music we usually feature here, strange directions that become strangely seductive, a twist on black metal that exotically warps it, an alchemy that justifies a “for fans of” reference which includes Goblin and Mercyful Fate as well as Beherit and Gorgoroth (among others). Continue reading »