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Excuse me, a quick question... but how is Wyatt pronounced? Uaiat or Uiet?

supersoul, you are right, but let’s not demonize numbers, which are a synthetic indication of a subjective judgment, nothing more, nothing less... just because we are talking in a divulgative context like a review site and not the pages of a diary where one writes their emotions, I believe it is legitimate (and it doesn't detract from the higher, nobler meaning of art) to seal everything with a number after so many words, which is not something arid, but rather a symbol that encompasses millions of arguments and emotions, even if contrasting. It is an extreme act of synthesis that still holds its communicative value, and when accompanied by arguments, it also has its usefulness, providing the reader with an overall picture that can often get lost among a thousand words, a thousand shades, and a thousand distinctions. And I say this as someone who suffers greatly every time I have to assign a score (and not infrequently, I must say, I’ve gotten it wrong… thank goodness there are words to correct it!).

Yes, Odradek, it is certainly a "minor" album within Wyatt's discography, a series of sketches gathered in a single container, rather than a work born from the same artistic design. And while it may not fully convince in some instances, and may generally seem crafted with a sense of lightness and approximation, it remains a sincere and extremely enjoyable album, a legitimate offspring of the art and life vision of a great and intelligent artist like Wyatt, in my opinion not disappointing at all... giving it less than 4 seems out of place for this reason, even considering today's musical landscape...

moolto interesting, I didn't know about the existence of this project... as a fan of the early Christian Death I must have it at all costs... a pity instead about the Christian Death with Valor... I saw them live a few years ago and I think it was the most pathetic concert I've ever seen in my life... Valor, besides being a zero as an artist and musician, is an unbounded idiot... at one point he even started doing an imitation of pikachu from Pokémon, and then, in the end, he said goodbye to the audience by saying they were going to have sex and do drugs... arms wasted on agriculture...

P.S. Gorilla Tactics is on the EP "Operation:Hummingbird," and if that's the only thing by Di6 you've listened to, then you have a somewhat skewed view of their music: that is the least Di6 episode of Di6, as the folk formula is temporarily abandoned in favor of a purely industrial and electronic guise (the album features a collaboration with Albin Julius of Blutharsch, and is closer to those works than to the rest of Pearce's discography, where he limits himself to vocals and some tweaking).

1) Apocalyptic folk is a subgenre of dark music that officially began in 1987 with "Brown Book" by Death in June and, alongside the band itself, includes prominent projects such as Current 93 and Sol Invictus. Electric guitars from the post-punk era are replaced with acoustic instruments (classical guitar, and sometimes woodwinds and strings), which remain tainted by the sonic grime of industrial infrastructure (loops, drum machines, etc.). The result is a sparse singer-songwriter style contaminated by a noisy attitude aimed at darkening the atmospheres. The lyrics revolve around existential and spiritual themes viewed from an eschatological perspective. 2) Yes, everything suggests they are neo-Nazis, but this position must be understood in a very specific context: a) the adoption of warlike iconography and the treatment of certain themes is inherited from early industrial music that, wanting to describe contemporary society as a terminal phase of an Evil that infests Humanity, has become, provocatively, a receptacle for the worst that has emerged from "western culture" (Nazism, Crowleyan Satanism, the alienation of a production line, etc.); b) the fundamental influence of authors like Nietzsche and a certain romantic and decadent literature which is, if anything, less left than it is right; c) the broader set of self-destructive and nihilistic impulses that have always animated the dark scene; d) Douglas P. is essentially someone who is unwell, at times he seems completely out of his mind, so it would be interesting to understand what it means for him to belong to a certain ideological area. In his texts, contrary to others in the scene who have treated certain themes more superficially, there are never indecent things that emerge, and it all seems to be connected to the poetic world of the artist, to his discomfort, to the existential and spiritual plane. Perhaps I am mistaken, to be clear, but I think defining Di6 as Nazis is reductive and, in some respects, erroneous (remember that Crisis, Pearce's first band, was an extreme left punk formation!). 3) They are English. 4) The moniker Death in June references the Night of the Long Knives (June 29-30, 1934), which saw the purge, within the Nazi hierarchy, of the moderates, among whom many gay individuals were eliminated as "impure." (Pearce has always been openly gay, and this aspect makes the choice of such a name all the more complex and rich in meaning). I hope I have been thorough, but if you have the patience (and it takes patience, I understand) to read my reviews, you can find bits and pieces of all the information you seek.

I regret, I regret... as for the reviews, I'm thinking about it... opening the Burzum page and seeing 5 Filosofem makes me a bit sad, one comes out a month... I'll see what I can do with Ulver...

editors, I have no words, I don’t know if what you have is pity or philanthropy but I love you so, so much...

I met them through Stille, but it took me a while to like them... Stille, in particular, is a good album, yet I still feel it's full of rough edges, edges that will be smoothed out with Elodia, which I believe is superior... The review is also, in my opinion, synthetic, especially since it's about a great band that's not very present on Debaser...

Oops Vincent, I almost forgot about the Emperor of Nightside Eclipse, maybe the best...