Tag Archives: black metal

(review) Alpheratz – Eclectic

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Alpheratz are hailing from Mexico and this is their latest opus. These guys have been in the scene for a long time and they play a mixture of symphonic black metal and avantgarde black metal reminding me a lot of Arcturus with their song structures, although less bombastic than mentioned Norwegians. This opus contains intro, outro and eight songs in between. Songs are not fast, there is no blast beat on this one, Alpheratz lean more on slower, doomy atmospheric side of things, coldness, synths which emphasize almost eerie dreamlike atmosphere of horror and despair. Vocals are neither too screechy, nor too raspy, fit perfectly to the music. My personal favorites are As Burning Fire and Infinite Sad with almost gothic song structures in the latter. This is a good release.

7/10

(review) Alone – I – IV

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Not much is known about entity called Alone except that it hails from Canada and this is its first release. Opus called I – IV because there are four songs on this one, being a bit longer and called The wars, The sea, The hunt, The cavern. Music of Alone can be described as melodic yet fast black metal with some really melancholic riffs and melodies beneath all the blast beats and aggression. My personal favorite is The hunt being the longest song on the opus but having most atmosphere from anguish and aggression of primal black metal to calm acoustic parts which fit perfectly to the overall mindset of the song. Vocals are crushing and screaming their lungs off and I think that they are just perfect for this kind of black metal. This is a good one, so if you are a fan of such music, go grab this one.

7/10

Power of the underground scene does not lie in social network!

This week on Thursday marks the sixth anniversary of this webzine. First, I want to thank all of you who read and are supporting this webzine since its inception till this day. We fought many battles and struggles together, attended festivals, gigs, met many new bands, labels, fantastic individuals who make this wonderful underground network or scene if you wish. Through many victories and heartbreaks we kept this small town in the north of Croatia on the map of the wide world underground scene. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and hopefully we will enjoy many more years and conquests together!

Second, this anniversary marks the beginning of a new era for this webzine, marking its return where it was spawned and meant to be, deeper in the underground and not in the spotlight of social networks like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and similar. As I stated above, power of the underground scene lies in individuality, creativity, imagination, creating a lot with little or nothing and still being the opposition to the usual and so called normal lifestyle. I am sick of social media, I am sick of people in the scene counting likes and clicks and who liked their posts and above all, I am sick of people watching gigs through mobile phones, posting their selfies to the social media during gig and watching how many likes are there and somehow all got lost in that shit.

This zine has a Facebook page which serves as a media between zine and people but it is useless. I do not care how many is the reach, how many people liked my post, because rarely someone opens the feature and actually reads it, they only click like and I really couldn´t care less about that. Also, there are stupid rules, stupid commentaries, stupid themes and music and ideas of the underground got lost in snowflakes, useless groups, liking, manic clicking and I am sick of that.

So, to conclude, Kraykulla Webzine is returning to underground and I will no more post features from zine to Kraykulla Fb page nor any other social media. Who wants to contact me can easily do that through mail address of this zine in the contact section of Kraykulla Webzine. Of course, bands, labels, partners and friends can share the material on their social media if they want, but I will not share it on this zine´s social media and I am abandoning that idea because I still believe in music, ideas, scene and not this insanity.

This also goes for my other webzine, namely North From Northern. Thank you so much and I will continue with this zine even stronger, you know where you can read the posts and find me. No more social media and social network, power of underground is stronger than that!