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As I always have had a parallel niche of music reviews on Le Mot du Cinephiliaque, my ancient music reviews website is back on track with a refresh on the look and the same old writer holding the wheel. You’ll find my music reviews here on Le Mot du Melomaniaque. read more

Music Review : Echelon - Indulgence over Abstinence Behind the Obsidian Veil (2015, Metal Inquisition Records) With frontman Dave Ingram (ex-Bolt Thrower and ex-Benediction) and Rogga Johansson of numerous projects on all instruments, Echelon is an old-school Death metal monolithic band of g read more

Music Review : Neuronia – Under The Same Sky (2015, Self-released) Straight out of Poland, Neuronia have released their third full lenght record on December 14th and are preaching the Heavy/Thrash metal flag high and loud. In the vein of Trial or Trivium, Neuronia makes contempora read more

Music Review : Mgła – Exercises in Futility (2015, No Solace | Northern Heritage) While it almost felt into my blindspot categorie of 2015, the thrid full lenght album by Polish black metallers, Mgła, is one of the most celebrated releases of the genre this year. With six intense song read more

Music Review : Sivyj Yar – Burial Shrouds (2015, Avantgarde Music) Highly prolific band or one man band, Sivyj Yar (an ancient deity of Slavs) and its sole member Vladimir from Russia, has released five albums since 2009. With lyrics recalling the early times of Varg Vikernes in the i read more

Music Review : Absolutus - Pugnare in iis quae obtinere non possis (2015, Heidens Hart Records) Coming out of Belgium, Absolutus are a nihilistic black metal band that has evolve from a traditional black metal sound to a more experimental ensemble creating eerie atmospheres and out of this read more

Music Review : Heimsdall Wacht – Der Untergang der alten Welt (2006-2015, Heidens Hart Records) Rising from the earth of Gemany in 2004, Heimsdall Wacht are a duo performing solid revivalist black metal from the early 1990’s à la Gorgoroth, Satyricon, and Ulver. Without falling read more

This post is part of the “Try It, You’ll Like It!” Blogathon, hosted by Sister Celluloid and Movies Silently, where we write about “gateway films” that might bring non-classic-film lovers into the fold! The Wings of Eagles (John Ford, 1957) A biograph read more

Music Review : Crypt Sermon – Out of the Garden (2015, Dark Descent) Getting into the album Out of the Garden took me a while and despite all the praise and positive buzz around the album, I was not able to complete a listen of the entire album since it came out. So in an attempt to co read more

Hi there! Here are the posts for the final day of the Winter Sports blogathon: Silver Scenes has been analyzing Winter Sports in the 1930's 1940's films: Movie Rob did a double bill with Miracle and Downhill Racer Cinematic Catharsis has done another home run with On Her Majesty's Sec read more

Note: this review is part of the Winter Sports blogathon hosted by the author of these lines Michaël Parent of Le Mot du Cinephiliaque The Art of Flight (Curt Morgan, 2011) The most anticipated snowboard movie of the year 2011, The Art of Flight meets the high expectations tha read more

Here's the lineup for today's event: Movies Silently skates with us and Max with her review of Max Learns to Skate Silver Screenings with her superb review of Sun Valley Serenade Yours truly with his recent review of The Art of Flight Keep getting back, the posts will keep coming as sno read more

This year I’m joining the Blindspot Series hosted by Ryan McNeil of The Matinee. It is quite simple, you have to select a film per month that you will be reviewing that you have never seen before and that is considered as an essential viewing. Here’s my line-up : I WAS BORN, BUT̷ read more

Music Review : Cult Leader -  Lightess Walk (2015, Deathwish) The label Deathwish of Converge member Jacob Bannon has been releasing iconoclastic underground bands since its debuts. With the latest release of Cult Leader’s Lightless Walk, we are into Converge-like territories of read more

Get your posts ready and your winter apparel out, the Winter Sports blogathon starts in less than four days! I know many of you are full of Thanksgiving dinners and are having fun rewatching those classic Holiday films of yours like Planes, Trains and Automobiles. But up here in Canada we are still read more

Music Review : Windhand – Grief’s Infernal Flower (2015, Relapse) With the explosion of doom metal bands of the recent years, Windhand have maintained a slight advance in their popularity even when they went too into their own music with Soma. However, with the much awaited Grie read more

Music Review : Royal Headache - High (2015, What’s Your Rupture?) Not being a fan of garage rock doesn’t make me repulsive about it at all. This is why I plugged into Royal Headache’s High with not much expectations. It was probably for the best. With the first song I got read more

Music Review : Corrections House – Know How To Carry a Whip (2015, Neurot) Formed of Scott Kelly (Neurosis), Bruce Lamont (Yakuza), Mike IX Williams (Eyehategod), Sanford Parker (Minsk) and Seward Fairbury, Corrections House is the cohesive collaboration of those great minds in the ma read more

Music Review : Horrendous - Araneta (2015, Dark Descent) In the recent years many genres have stagnate and left fans biting again and again in their old classics saying : they don’t make them like this anymore. Even the greats like Iron Maiden and Slayer have more or less missed read more

Music Review : Björk - Vulnicura (2015, One Little Indian) Iceland’s musicians have a sobriety and a dark approach to music that few artists have achieved. Just look at the wide audience of the masters of Sigur Ros. While established and world reknowned Björk is one of ScandinaviaR read more