Music and dance can uplift the soul and this couldn’t have been more evident than at the recent gala of the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company and Cecile Licad at the Samsung Performing Arts Theater in Makati.
Harakiri for the Sky Defies the Rules of Heavy May 11, 2021
Now five albums deep, Harakiri for the Sky was founded by guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Matthias Sollak (at right) and singer J.J. in 2011. Sollak composes the music and J.J. pens the band s lyrics.
Austrian black-metal magus Matthias Sollak realizes his panoramic vision for
MÓre via cues from prog, shoegaze, and neo-classical
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For all the black-metal bona fides Matthias Sollak has accumulated as a guitarist, his musical range extends into areas you might not expect from a 31-year-old who s been running with headbangers for most of his life. Even during his long stint with Bifröst, the band he co-founded in his native Salzburg, Austria, at the age of 16, he brought elements as far afield as bagpipes, folk instruments, and keyboard samples to a freewheeling and unpredictable sound that helped set the group apart from their self-avowed pagan metal contemporaries.