Four years ago, Johannes took me by surprise and became one of my standout releases of 2021. This time around, I was fully prepared for what Decline Of The I could have in store, and yet I’m still completely wowed by what they’ve accomplished on Wilhelm....

I spent a lot of time pondering the intricacies of post-black metal in my review of Kevel's Mutatis Mutandis last year. Of the three possible definitions I put forward then, Decline Of The I's Johannes falls squarely into the third category,...

As someone who has had to bushwhack through Jean Baudrillard and Herbert Marcuse for various undergraduate classes, it takes a special kind of babbling, incoherent pretentiousness to make me really rub my eyes and scratch my head in bewilderment?the kind...