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2026-02-18

WYATT E. und HEMELBESTORMER live auf der MS Stubnitz, Hamburg (15. Februar 2026)


Ok, es ist bereits Mittwoch. Kann ich mich überhaupt noch an Sonntag erinnern? Der 15. Februar 2026 war zum größten teil eigentlich kein Tag, von dem langfristig viel bei mir hängen bleiben wird. Ein Wochendtag mitten in einem ungewohnt beharrlichen, aber zum Glück nicht wirklich schlimmen Winter (stabile knappe Minusgrade sind mir zumindest lieber als auf den Kreislauf drückende Rekordsommerhitze), den ich gemütlich drinnen zwischen Musik, zu vielen YouTube-Videos und dem Verfassen eigener Texte verbracht verbracht habe.

Am frühen Abend gab es dann aber doch einen herausstechenden Moment, den ich so schnell nicht vergessen werde. Auf dem Weg nach Hamburg hatte ich den zwar nicht schnellsten, aber dafür kürzesten Weg durch Itzehoe gewählt - eine Wahl, die meinem KfZ beinahe zum Verhängnis geworden wäre, kam mir doch nach einer steilen Kurve in einer Einbahnstraße plötzlich ein Geisterfahrer entgegen! Knapp voreinander hielten wir an: Er sah mich entsetzt an, ich sah ihn entsetzt an. Dann bog er - in die falsche Richtung, allerdings glücklicherweise nur noch für wenige Meter - nach rechts ab, während ich die nächste halbe Stunde als Reaktion auf den Schreck mit gefühlt eingeschnürtem Brustkorb weiterfuhr.

Vernünftigerweise hätte ich wohl unmittelbar nach dem Beinahezusammenstoß eine kurze Pause machen sollen, aber ich hatte so eine bisschen Schiss, dass mir dann vielleicht als verspätete Reaktion das Zittern käme und ich vielleicht länger bräuchte... und hey, die MS Stubnitz wartete. Prioritäten, Baby!





HEMELBESTORMER

Auf dem ordentlich gefüllten Schiff begann der doppelt belgisch besetzte Abend mit Hemelbestormer, was genau das bedeutet, was man aus der deutschen Sprache heraus vermutet. Deswegen spare ich mir hier mal den Erklärbären. Ein bisschen überrascht war ich vom Sound des mir bisher nur namentlich bekannten Quartetts, das ich in meiner Vorstellung fälschlicherweise als garstigen, aber modernen Black Metal, vielleicht eine grobere Version von Terzeij De Horde oder vielleicht Wiegedood abgespeichert hatte. Aber nö.

Passend zu ihrem Label Pelagic Records entpuppten Hemelbestormer sich in Wirklichkeit aber als instrumentale Post-Metal-Gruppe, immerhin allerdings mit durchaus viel düsterschwarzer Atmosphäre und mitunter auch offen blackmetallischem Gitarrenspiel. Mächtig stampfend und riffend, in doomigen Momenten wie instrumentale E-L-R, im cowboyhutigsten Stück wie Solstafír ohne Gesang. Insgesamt durchaus so ein bisschen wie düsterere "Cult of Russian Circles".

Ein schön fetter Einstieg, der auch genau richtig sein Ende fand, gerade als ich gerade das Gefühl hatte, dass demnächst vielleicht Übersättigung und Ungeduld eintreten könnten. Sauber!








WYATT E.

Was mich bei Wyatt E. erwartete, wusste ich im Gegensatz zum Opener genau, kenne ich doch nicht nur die Alben der mystisch meditativen Doomer, sondern habe sie in der Vergangenheit bereits auf zwei verschiedenen Festivals in Dänemark gesehen. Und tatsächlich war des Set dem vom letztjährigen Esbjerg Fuzztival sehr ähnlich, bestand es doch überwiegend aus dem dort gespielten letzten Album "Zamāru Ultu Qereb Ziqquratu Part 1", enthielt - wenn ich mich recht erinnere - aber auch Teile des vorletzten Werks "Āl Bēlūti Dārû", welches während des Colossal Weekends 2019 gerade aktuell gewesen war.

Vertraute Doommacht voller nahöstlicher Magie, aus zeitloser Tiefe kommen, mit ungewöhnlich verfremdeten hypnotische beschwörenden Gesängen. Musik für die Götter, eben, wie das Trio es in seiner Selbstbeschreibung verspricht. Neu - und das gewisse Extra - war hier vor allem mal wieder, den bekannten Sound im Bauch des Doomschiffs Stubnitz zu erleben, was für diese Art erhabener und krachend entrückender Musik kaum passender sein könnte. Exzellente Transzendenz!

Dafür habe ich den Schock auf dem Hinweg und die bei den kurzen Aufenthalten im Freien zwischendurch kalten Beinchen (da ich zu faul gewesen war, mir eine lange Elli unterzuziehen) doch gerne in Kauf genommen. Und nach meiner dritten Wyatt E.-Show habe ich mir jetzt auch endlich mal eines ihrer stets sehr ansehnlichen - und für Barzahler rabattierten - T-Shirts gegönnt. Irgendwann kommen ja auch wieder Zeiten, in denen Bandshirts nicht mehr unter drölf Pulloverschichten verschwinden.







2026-01-03

MUSIC 2025 : TOP 4 reissues


I didn't get too many releases falling into this category this year, so four already feels like a lot. Of course that doesn't change the objective truth of this little list. This is the one and only truth. Don't take it personal, but whatever you think is the best reissue of the year - you're wrong.



TOP 4 reissues 2025:

  1. LAIBACH - Laibach40

    Ok, seriously now. I was a little bit divided about putting this new Laibach box on top, because their debut album has already been released in several forms, including the "Laibach Revisited" box set. Two of the three accompanying live albums in the box are already known too, while just one recent "We Forge The Future" performance and a DVD documentary are actually new entries into the collection. If this is all new to you however, this CD box (or its vinyl equivalent) is undoubtly a great document of the Slovene legends' early Industrial days forty years ago.




  2. SENYAWA - Membaladakan Keselamatan (Ballads for the Survivors)

    Four years after the digital release WV Sorcerer Productions finally gave us a physical release of Senyawa's unplugged album, which proves that even on an acoustic guitar instead of self-built electronic devices the Javanese Experimental Folk/Drone duo is just as comepelling as in its regular form. The vinyl release ist beautiful and not only includes lyrics, but also four previously unreleased bonus tracks. Magical.




  3. PINK FLOYD - Live at Pompeii MCMLXXII

    Yes, in case you wondered, why this didn't show up in my TOP 7 of live albums - it's of course a reissue. And even though the two CD version probably is one of the least spectacular formats in which this Steven Wilson remix of this essential Pink Floyd recording (and the film which it scores) has come out, there's no doubt about the importance and continuing influence of this band in their maybe most creatively and temperamentally balanced era.





  4. Ok, I'm cheating. These are two albums. But not only because of the similar, just mirrored cover artwork the 2015 and 2017 works of this mystical Doom trio feel like connected twin releases. The atmospheric longtracks of slow Experimental Metal drowned in Near Eastern and Dead Can Dance influences are already almost as compelling as later albums - and Heavy Psych Sounds just does beautiful colour vinyl variants, so the only hard decision of this reissue really was, which exact version to choose. Musically Wyatt E. are beyond any doubt a worthwhile addition to any collection anyway.



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2025-06-21

Fuzzti-Haul feat. CAUSA SUI, DAEVAR, FUCKWOLF, GREEN MILK FROM THE PLANET ORANGE, SKYJOGGERS and WYATT E.


It's summer and I'm slow, falling behind with my to-review list again. But then it's also summer and page impressions are slow, too.

But anyway, I have to warm up again at some point, so instead of a proper insightful music review here's my "look what I've got!" from two weeks ago at Esbjerg Fuzztival in Denmark:






CAUSA SUI - In Flux (random colour ecomix vinyl 10" 2LP) (2025)

Ha, busted! You got me! I didn't even buy this in the merch room. In fact for some reason Causa Sui weren't able to bring stuff to sell there. So no, I already had their latest studio album before.

"In Flux" doesn't lay out a radically new path for the instrumental quartet, but pretty much continues right where  last year's "From The Source" or the latest live release "Loppen 2024" left off. There's no twenty+ minutes multi-part Psych Prog epic on here (well, "Astral Shores" at least cracks the sixteen-minute mark), but all in all it's the same perfectly balanced mix of fuzz and wah-wah heavy Stoner Rock, Latin Fusion ease and cool Americana, which - performed by these players - at this point has become such a signature sound, that you could almost talk about Causa Sui by the numbers.

Of course that sounds unnecessarily disparaging. But you know that these numbers are super creative and high, right? So yeah, no doubt that "In Flux" is awesome. Presenting the album in agatefold cover as a double 10" record is the icing on the cake. The vinyl comes in random colours and I got green and teal tones which fit the artwork quite well. Beautiful!







SKYJOGGERS - 12021: Post-Electric Apocalypse (CD) (2025)

I already lamented starting my merch spree a couple of minutes too late, so I missed the last vinyl copy, which Skyjoggers brought with them on their sixty-day tour. But hey, music's the same on the CD! So here comes a sweet thirty-six minutes injection of heavy, crunchy, fast and fuzzilicious Space Rock for fans of Karkara (who had sadly cancelled their Esbjerg show), Slift, "Nonagon" era King Gizzard and their likes.

While the studio recording in all its raw explosiveness cannot even convey the full extend of the Finnish trio's on-stage energy, "12021: Post-Electric Apocalypse" undeniably is a veritable Kraut banger. Hop onto the rumbling Psych'n'Roll express train now!







GREEN MILK FROM THE PLANET ORANGE / FUCKWOLF - Let's Split (裂けても) (LP) (2025)

Let's continue with the last vinyl copy which I could score: It's a colourful Psych Rock split featuring two bands from Tokyo and San Francisco.

Green Milk From The Planet Orange (the band which actually played in Esbjerg) occupies the first half of this LP with a nineteen minutes long live recording of just one track called "Concrete City Breakdown". Just like during the festival listening to this trio feels like a continuation of Skyjoggers, but even wilder, stylistically wider, more skilled and more emotional. And this is not a jab at the former at all; I saw their drummer watching his counterpart here laughing with a wide open mouth.
No, Green Milk are just an unbelievably crazy force Psych Punk Prog'n'Roll with that special spark that feels distincitively Japanese and must have something to do with something in the volcanic water over there. And this recording is a nice raw document of what a show of them feels like.

Fuckwolf spread their creativity over more tracks, presenting six song between two and a half and slightly below seven minutes length. And each one of those shows a different side, from atmospheric analog synth moods to punkish noisy Kraut explosions, from desert hike soundtrack to journeys towards the event horizon and beautiful dreams of love and peace under the burning Frisco sun. Neat.









GREEN MILK FROM THE PLANET ORANGE - Tragedy Overground (CD) (2025)

The highlight of Green Milk From The Planet Orange's show was a new, over twenty-two minutes long Prog piece, and this is the single / EP, which contains it.
After a slow pinkfloydish start "Tragedy Overground" escalates through multiple wild crescendos of burning Prog Punk, Noise Rock (and even small bits with a jazzy vibes, which you might miss as you're hurrying along with this) before finally returing to the opening theme and - of course reprising all the madness that happened before once again in a wild synopsis. It's brilliant, for sure one of my my favorite tracks of 2025 so far!









WYATT E. - Mount Sinai / Aswan (3 colours striped vinyl LP) (2015/2025)

The Belgians for sure brought a lot of merch, including new pressings of some older albums which were missing in my collection. And who can say no to coloured vinyl releases by Heavy Psych Sounds?
I know, normally I prefer my coloured vinyl to have some connection to the artwork, but come on, this pink/yellow/blue thing was just too tempting!

Musically the two instrumental longtracks "Mount Sinai" and "Aswan" already point to the direction the Psychedelic Doom trio would go later, yet they don't add as many electronic, vocal and percussive elements beyond the realm of hypnotic Drone and Doom Metal yet.

On the B side however a certain Near Eastern groove, bass pedal synths and bongos already come into play. And even though Wyatt E. later evolved beyond the sound we're hearing here, it doesn't diminish this earlier work in any way. The aesthetics were already set, this is just the first chapter in a (so far) front to back captivating discography.

Great album and reissue!








WYATT E. - Exile To Beyn Neharot (transparent black and orange splatter LP) (2017/2025)

Well, aren't they economic? Two years after "Mount Sinai / Aswan" Wyatt E. followed it up with another album of two epic tracks, which just reused the same cover, just horizontally flipped. As if the drawing on the inlet wouldn't have been a dope alternative. I guess there was some conceptual meaning behind this decision, making these two sister releases. The new splatter vinyl reissie definitely is nice to look at as well.

The deep Drone, the mystical sounds and Oriental elements, the Krautrock vibes and cosmic Berlin electronics, the undeniable Dead Can Dead influence, they have all entered the temple and are here to stay now. The drum performance gets more advanced, as well as the production of it all. Noone is singing yet, but this is just the step you'd retroactively expect between the debut and "Āl Bēlūti Dārû" in 2022. A flawlessy beautiful hypnotic Doom ceremony.








DAEVAR - Sub Rosa (CD) (2025)

Last but not least - following the Fuzztival running order - here's the latest album from the German trio Daevar. Call it Shoegrunge or call it Dream Doom! Whatever. Dont call it female-fronted, because despite being technically correct that term is somehow dumb and icky. Listen to it and enjoy great songs with catchy melodies and rumbling Stoner riffs!

Yeah.