Alex Choros Archive

  5:00am – Turn heater on 5:15am – Water plants 5:25am – Turn on coffee machine 5:29am – Turn on table lamp, open blinds 5:30am – Wake up Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it? Half an hour extra sleep? Waking up to an already …

Days have slowly been getting shorter, mornings have been getting colder and I’ve been pressing the snooze button on my alarm far more than I should; winter is coming. It’s appropriate that folk black metal band ­Ifing’s debut album, Against This Weald, …

I’ve always enjoyed the use of bowed instruments in rock and metal. They instill a sense of grandeur like no other instrument can, whether it be the quirky art rock mishap of The Red Paintings, the melancholic doom metal of Kauan, the …

Bands like Terminus make me wish I had taken up an instrument much earlier in life. I was initially pretty impressed by their self-titled debut, and even more so when I found out that at the time of its release (October last …

Italians are responsible for quite a few of my favourite things: sumptuous wines, indulgent cuisine and eminent suits. With their debut album, Awaken, Amouth have proved Italians are also pretty damn good at writing post metal. Awaken certainly is an interesting beast. …

Like most metalheads, I love a good guitar solo. No matter whether it’s death, black, progressive, post, sludge or folk, I’d call it a hallmark of the genre. What I dislike is self-indulgent playing that serves only to showcase a musician’s technical …