Few genres are at war with themselves quite like black metal. Casually browse a forum or leaf through the letters page of a magazine and you’ll find the minutes of an ongoing McCarthyite purge to rid ...

Much of the response to the first two Botanist releases boiled down to one fundamental point: “What the fuck?” The weirdness of this one-man band is undeniable. Nobody other than Botanist mastermind ...

American ‘green metal’ originators, and long-time Quietus favourites, Botanist, kicked off their first European tour in two years earlier this week and will hit London tomorrow (September 27) with a ...

Potentially the only self-aware human inhabitant of the "Verdant Realm," his own "sanctuary of fantasy and wonder," as one website called it, one-man band the Botanist has just released his fourth LP, ...

When Otrebor writes a Botanist song, he sets a few rules for himself. First: the song has to have hammered dulcimers instead of guitars. Second: it has to be about plants. Third: it has to come from ...

Although ostensibly in line with the atmospheric black metal scene, Botanist constantly rejects convention. The San Francisco project’s entire concept centers on the use of Hammered Dulcimers instead ...