Daily Peaks · 16.12.2024

One out of ten Postrock songs manages to stay in my mind, like "After you comes the Flood" performed by Mono. The rest is like a kind of elevator music with some edgy parts within a fairly regulated sound corset. Daxma manage to break through the usual twanging sound with a well balanced sound between distorted and clean, heavy and dreamy and an atmosphere between sadness and aggression. And due this well balanced cocktail of sound, skills and sensations, this nine-minute-monster never gets...

Daily Peaks · 04.10.2024

Press releases are always interesting; if they are very long, then the music is usually not interesting and if the author of the text searches in vain for the right words, then the music is interesting. This is what happened with the Danish band "Dying Hydra" and their latest single "Grasping Stone". Sludge means in this case the slowness of the song and the growls. So much for melodic sludge which was mentioned in the press text; there are so many different styles in this song, be it doom, a...