If for some reason you aren't familiar with Manes, you may be familiar with Ulver. Manes also has the Ulver syndrome.

Like their Norwegian contemporaries Ulver, Manes is a band that forsake pure black metal in favor of a more all-encompassing sound, including forays into dance, funk, hip-hop, prog, industrial, disco and electronica. Although the above statement alone...

Evolution. That's the word I've been looking all over my brain for the past minutes. That's the word that comes to my mind when I try to describe the latest release from Avant-garde outfit Manes. During most of the nineties, the band spent...