Published: March 24 2014

Born in 2009 with a debut album Collision of the Worlds , the one-man-band Russian WINDBRUCH offers us in this year 2014 its second opus lasting almost 50 minutes. Little precedent for the progenitor of this group, but the level is nonetheless there in a very conventional style altogether.

The style is rather atmospheric, without bidding keyboards yet, and control of the whole is quite interesting...

Published: March 16, 2014

Bordering on the “is it metal or not” fence is Russia’s Windbruch, a one-man musical project.  Combining atmospheric black metal, shoegaze, and a sense for the cinematic, No Stars, Only Full Dark is described as a “soundtrack for the heart of winter.”  The follow-up to 2009’s Collision of the Worlds, No Stars, Only Full Dark was originally issued independently in 2013 but pressed to CD for the first time early this y...

Published: March 10, 2014

No Stars, Only Full Dark . That a black metal album clearly and proudly announces color: black black black black. We can already imagine the true disk smelling, corrosive, cold and dark at best. Pourléchage of lips and dark Alphonse engaged. Nothing rude Gertrude do we imagine. Little prior history still to set the mood. Windbruch Russian and is the work of one man: Iluzi optice which occupies...

Published: March 10, 2014

Although this is their second album, I don’t recall crossing the lonely path of this one man Siberian atmospheric black metal band before. I’m quite glad I have now though.

We get a gentle, melancholic intro with ‘The Dance Of Liquid Fire ‘, a little chill sweeping in before ‘No More Entry, No More Exit’ rises up with cold but subtle black metal riffs. There is a touch of Fen about this; that ability to conjure up the fl...