<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Izzy Izbourne]]></title><description><![CDATA[Izzy Izbourne]]></description><link>https://www.izzyizbourne.de/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:10:38 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.izzyizbourne.de/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Imber Luminis - Same Old Silences]]></title><description><![CDATA[There’s a companion I haven’t properly introduced yet. It screams, growls, bleeds all over the place—and gives the silence in my head something louder to compete with.]]></description><link>https://www.izzyizbourne.de/beitrag/imber-luminis-same-old-silences</link><guid isPermaLink="false">a3c9c540-fe47-4442-a142-e7f60eeb761f</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f441f4_43e1b04cfe674d6ebd188bcf56a630ea~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_420,h_320,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Izzy Izbourne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fuck Photos]]></title><description><![CDATA[I went to Hanover for Amenra and returned with grievances. Several of them. There was good music, bad organisation, worse manners, unexpected kindness and one increasingly irritated woman trying very hard to call this journalism.]]></description><link>https://www.izzyizbourne.de/beitrag/amenra-live-hannover-cafe-glocksee</link><guid isPermaLink="false">ab904d8f-1084-4d21-8309-ee0f61eaf3cd</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f441f4_110fa7eaf3ff4b37912e4477ef529e11~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_420,h_320,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Izzy Izbourne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortress Festival 2026 – Day II]]></title><description><![CDATA[Day Two involved selling merch, borrowing an artist pass, talking my way backstage and actually talking to people. It ended with Gallowbraid’s first-ever live show, a blue moon over Scarborough and the certainty that I would be back.]]></description><link>https://www.izzyizbourne.de/beitrag/fortress-festival-2026-day-two</link><guid isPermaLink="false">fdf19a8b-d821-445c-83f5-7e983428df02</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f441f4_86361aff0b774ba4a1aeaee180277a34~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_420,h_320,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Izzy Izbourne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortress Festival 2026 – Day I]]></title><description><![CDATA[Back at Fortress Festival in Scarborough for twelve hours of black metal, camera-related despair, unexpected cosmic joy and one headlining set that reduced my notes to "Omg". ]]></description><link>https://www.izzyizbourne.de/beitrag/fortress-festival-2026-day-one</link><guid isPermaLink="false">d210b567-d82b-43a5-bb11-d293ccd3fcfc</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f441f4_b8529c7b661c4e658832ef8196f247a0~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_420,h_320,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Izzy Izbourne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[ColdWorld – Isolation]]></title><description><![CDATA[This review wasn't planned. It started with a photobook, one quote and a vinyl I couldn't stop playing for a week. Turns out the last thing in the parcel was the one that stayed with me.]]></description><link>https://www.izzyizbourne.de/beitrag/coldworld-isolation-review</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cbad9349-76d5-4882-87bf-08acc0c2a572</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f441f4_e71830f616234b21ba874381058cae81~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_420,h_320,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Izzy Izbourne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maladie – The Dance of Tragedies]]></title><description><![CDATA[One week under the Tuscan sun left my brain fried. Literally. Emotionally. Possibly structurally. So, naturally, I listened to the new Maladie album on the flight home. I was already fucked in the head. Might as well make productive use of it.]]></description><link>https://www.izzyizbourne.de/beitrag/maladie-the-dance-of-tragedies</link><guid isPermaLink="false">91137869-7c32-4df8-af22-3c2fd4595397</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f441f4_b505780e25c44bcea66c0e9e7ad452e7~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_420,h_320,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Izzy Izbourne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slagmaur – Hulders Ritual]]></title><description><![CDATA[Slagmaur lured me in with sheep, hit me with distorted forest madness, and somehow ended up as the first item on my Fortress 2027 homework list.]]></description><link>https://www.izzyizbourne.de/beitrag/slagmaur-hulders-ritual-review</link><guid isPermaLink="false">3ad522c6-e529-4045-928c-ceecef76379c</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f441f4_400b6209e53347a0bff73d14e7b2cdd1~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_420,h_320,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Izzy Izbourne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mork – Monolitt]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mork’s Monolitt landed in my inbox two days before release. I accepted it blind, because apparently black metal brand loyalty is a thing I do now. Here’s the Keeper entry. It includes crushing riffs, excellent diction, one very large rock, and a deeply undignified amount of excitement about Hamburg.]]></description><link>https://www.izzyizbourne.de/beitrag/mork-monolitt-review</link><guid isPermaLink="false">978fa5a2-5aea-4f00-904c-669ad3da2300</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f441f4_67aa43e71c7143578781edbfe87510dd~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_420,h_320,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Izzy Izbourne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortress Festival 2026 – The Prequel]]></title><description><![CDATA[Back to England, back to Scarborough, back to Fortress. Before the music, there was Heathrow chaos, Google betrayal, sea-view swooning, beans on toast, sunburn, Whitby crowds, dog-hair beer, and a Dracula purchase that was absolutely necessary.]]></description><link>https://www.izzyizbourne.de/beitrag/fortress-festival-2026--the-prequel</link><guid isPermaLink="false">159d0d69-0f30-4e8b-bc0c-a3a824a7bd80</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f441f4_c2f86f6ecd4f4ff595680f6dae233d12~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_420,h_320,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Izzy Izbourne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Neptune Power Federation – Live in Hamburg]]></title><description><![CDATA[Friday night in Billstedt began with basil lemonade that tasted suspiciously of pesto and ended with me asking a drummer for a picture of his white cowboy boots. I had a fantastic time.]]></description><link>https://www.izzyizbourne.de/beitrag/the-neptune-power-federation-live</link><guid isPermaLink="false">0bc073d2-a1a2-41db-84c9-65787b8bb709</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f441f4_2e35644ee4ac4e85b7e3102938e1f700~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_420,h_320,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Izzy Izbourne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Should Be Over This]]></title><description><![CDATA[A reel. A Florence Welch lyric. And the realisation that shame had slowly convinced me emotional honesty was something to hide. On longing, feralscripts, and refusing to become emotionally silent.]]></description><link>https://www.izzyizbourne.de/beitrag/why-art-matters</link><guid isPermaLink="false">411104e9-012f-4196-b659-c5e6415d2f23</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f441f4_8afc4f86756844a986423a20c87ab720~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_420,h_320,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Izzy Izbourne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black Metal, Riesling Schorle &#38; One Very Angry Swede]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was at Atmospheric Arts Festival in Speyer last weekend. Here’s the field report.

It includes a poncho, a bathrobe, singing bowls, Riesling Schorle, a bat t-shirt, an emotional breakdown courtesy of a Canadian post-black metal band and the phrase "Hansi Kürsch of depressive black metal".

So yes. I had a good day.]]></description><link>https://www.izzyizbourne.de/beitrag/atmospheric-arts-festival</link><guid isPermaLink="false">81883c13-796b-49d6-9ba4-c0782565cc0f</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f441f4_0e3c7796d3c74f0f9279d976573fbe1a~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_420,h_320,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Izzy Izbourne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I Could Kill Myself – Steeldeath]]></title><description><![CDATA[Carefully staged misery, dressed in violet and turned all the way up. Works like a charm.]]></description><link>https://www.izzyizbourne.de/beitrag/if-i-could-kill-myself-steeldeath-review</link><guid isPermaLink="false">0fcd58ce-3a24-478a-87ce-cf2b8357a9e5</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f441f4_ae9e156371df40a1b521bfe6687f9911~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_420,h_320,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Izzy Izbourne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maladie – Symptoms V]]></title><description><![CDATA[The one that took its time—and then knocked me sideways. Final day of Maladie Week. Five tracks, infinite dissonance, and more jazz than anyone asked for.]]></description><link>https://www.izzyizbourne.de/beitrag/maladie-week-symptoms-v</link><guid isPermaLink="false">2b0033df-75a3-4943-a5dd-52c99e66a8b6</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f441f4_44a2c282efb241c69bae6024d9b20375~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_420,h_320,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Izzy Izbourne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maladie - Symptoms IV]]></title><description><![CDATA[A delirious journey through saxophone-fuelled black metal chaos. Maladie’s Symptoms IV is equal parts seduction, violence, and pure exhilaration.]]></description><link>https://www.izzyizbourne.de/beitrag/maladie-symptoms-iv-review</link><guid isPermaLink="false">1707d66e-ba51-450d-9b55-38ab5d1d0794</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f441f4_7fbf0512ef1a47a5bff1dd2de3f7b297~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_420,h_320,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Izzy Izbourne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maladie – Symptoms III]]></title><description><![CDATA[The one that dethroned Symptoms IV. Personal, raw, and painfully human—Symptoms III sits with you and names things you are taught not to name.]]></description><link>https://www.izzyizbourne.de/beitrag/maladie-week-symptoms-iii</link><guid isPermaLink="false">fdca1298-1a7f-4161-a295-9d55ec6b3d22</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f441f4_59ff82ed33eb41dbad679075c924fbd1~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_420,h_320,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Izzy Izbourne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maladie – Symptoms II]]></title><description><![CDATA[Four tracks. Thirty-four minutes. Latin titles, cello, and one particularly doomy epic that shapeshifts until it breaks you just a little.]]></description><link>https://www.izzyizbourne.de/beitrag/maladie-week-symptoms-ii</link><guid isPermaLink="false">421d558e-15d1-4ba5-944c-5e94a09d44d8</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 12:29:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f441f4_03ea92a273c94286ae2d5243c4494181~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_350,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Izzy Izbourne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maladie – Symptoms]]></title><description><![CDATA[We kick off Maladie Week with Symptoms: the unplanned, sprawling 41-minute EP that started the series. Saxophones, blast beats, and no middle ground.]]></description><link>https://www.izzyizbourne.de/beitrag/maladie-week-symptoms</link><guid isPermaLink="false">257301d3-7995-4366-8d26-a59202bad782</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f441f4_183cd29dd7ff4c02a354d940869e9523~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_420,h_320,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Izzy Izbourne</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mork - Det Svarte Juv]]></title><description><![CDATA[A cold, melodic deep-dive into Mork’s Det Svarte Juv—the Norwegian black metal album that kicked off my now very real obsession. With chocolate.]]></description><link>https://www.izzyizbourne.de/beitrag/mork-det-svarte-juv-review</link><guid isPermaLink="false">a2b6fbf6-9b90-44bf-aa5d-ab01f915078b</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2022 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f441f4_91d12681532c4a9f8c12256af79471d0~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_420,h_320,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Izzy Izbourne</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>