A year after releasing the colossal, genre-spanning triple album Triangle, Schammasch delved deeper into one of the more unexpected sounds of that album with the EP The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite. Seven years on, they revisit Les Chants De Maldoror,...

Hearts Of No Light isn't the full-length exploration of the approach employed on The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite that I was expecting/hoping, but it's yet another excellent album from Schammasch, and still has a surprise or two up its sleeve....

When bands that have won themselves a sizable following through the employment of a certain sound suddenly change their sound radically with a new release and piss off a good portion of their fanbase, I love it. Why? Because it shows the band in question...