Ilse booked the slow and heavy stage at a mid-sized German festival for seven years before moving to the other side of the desk. She has a programmer's ear: she listens to whole albums, in order, and she notices when a band has one idea stretched over forty minutes.
On KaosMetal she covers doom in all its weights, stoner and sludge, gothic metal and funeral doom: the genre history, the biographies, the essentials, the doom festivals and the labels. She writes at length, without jokes, and she says clearly when something is not good enough. Praise from Ilse is earned.
