"Discomfort begets growth, after all. And what can be more uncomfortable than atonal, ambient black metal? And few do weird as well as Belgium's Emptiness. In 2014, they caught my attention, thanks to Jean-Luc Ricard`s stellar coverage of Nothing but the Whole. A grotesque, otherworldly experience, Whole garnered a ton of press and attention, and its follow-up, Not for Music, continues down stranger, weirder roads usually untraveled".