Black Metal is relatively new to me. Given my interest in all things heavy, it is a genre I have been exploring with great enthusiasm.
Author: JWukotich/VUK
I run a website called The Turning Gem. My intention with it is to explore new ways of looking at old things. Particularly those that give our minds the most trouble. We find Angels in the Angles.
Additionally, exploring my love of heavy music, I write reviews for The Metal Wanderlust, and VM-Underground as VUK.
Review/Interview: Orcrypt
Orcrypt was a new name to me in 2020, but with an album called “Balrog & Roll,” the band did not remain a mystery for
Interview: Sushant Rawat – Raat
Every now and then an album just comes out of nowhere and tattoos itself on your psyche. This is never particularly easy to explain, especially
Twenty Twenty Twenty Favourites: Vuk (The Magnificent)
2020 was a shit show, no doubt. But it was a shit show with an awesome soundtrack. Yes, it was a real Saturday Night Fever
Exclusive Premiere: Celestial Existence – The Scalar Process
The Scalar Process (premiere) Technical Death Metal, like any sub-genre, enjoys a variety of essentials. Blast beats, guitar sweeps, bass acrobatics, and mathematically precise drumming
Exclusive Premiere: Mustaa Hiiltä – Revulsion
Revulsion has been an active band for quite some time. Since 2005, in fact, the quintet has been ripping up ear drums throughout Finland’s underground
Album Review: The Living Room Sessions – Gaelynn Lea
Gaelynn Lea was born in Duluth, Minnesota with a rare genetic condition called osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease), and she uses a wheelchair to get
Album Review: Weight of the False Self – Hatebreed
Oh, man. I don’t even know where to start. I guess, to be fair, I need to give credit where credit is due. Since my
Interview/Review: Æolian – The Negationist
Vuk (The Magnificent) recently fired off some questions to a couple of the members of Spanish Melodic Death Metal (with some other influences to be
Album Review: Reluctant Hero – Killer Be Killed
I really enjoyed the first Killer Be Killed album. I thought it to feature the best of each member, all of whom I had been
Review/Interview: The Great Hatred- Aphonic Threnody
Vuk: Thank you for taking the time to chat with me about all things Aphonic Threnody! I’m very excited! I have listened to all of
THE METAL WANDERLUST PRESENTS: VUK’s HALLOWEEN PLAYLIST 2020
I love Halloween! I suppose, for many of us Metalheads, that’s the kind of thing that can be left unsaid. But it’s also just plain
Double Review: Plague Hymns EP – Sarcoptes / Desert of Ghouls EP – Eremit
I have no good excuse for putting this review off for as long as I have. I suppose, to put it plainly, it was difficult
