Albionic Hermeticism, Ytenic Blód, United Kingdom, self-released limited edition cassette (2019) Part of a British-based black metal collective known as
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Homenagem: an old style of fusion Afro-European music has a new lease of life with electronics experimentation
Leonardo V Boccia, Homenagem, Brazil, Lugar Alto, LA001 vinyl LP (2019) Appropriately for a reissue of an album first released
Continue readingBeing there: a solid and intriguing expression of art in the process of creation
Grisha Shakhnes, Being there, Belgium, Unfathomless, U61 CD (2019) Israeli artist Grisha Shakhnes is blunt about this release: it’s a
Continue readingTragediens Trone (self-titled): a dense dissonant style of blackened death metal in need of inspired concept and songs
Tragediens Trone, self-titled, France, Osmose Productions, OPCDL378 (2019) Just when you think the French and the Spanish had cornered this
Continue readingPatience: two gentle instrumental pieces of rich meditative soundscape art
Monotronique / Quiet Evenings, Patience, Germany, Vaagner, VAKNAR 22 cassette (2019) Appearing on quite a few people’s bandcamp collections, this
Continue readingSomething veiled: the sonic universe of caves as heard through a veil of field recordings
Leo Okagawa, Something veiled, Belgium, Unfathomless, U60 CD (2019) Some artists go to quite extraordinary lengths to create soundscape art.
Continue readingForbidden Rituals for the Destruction of Purity Pt II: more raw psychic vampiric BM bait for unsuspecting prey
Chaînes Fantôme, Forbidden Rituals for the Destruction of Purity Pt II, United States, Ancestral Flame Productions, AFP-014 limited edition cassette
Continue readingThe way you make me feel: a private struggle reveals a sonic world of fragile and hypnotic beauty
Vanessa Rossetto, The way you make me feel, Belgium, Unfathomless, U35 CD (2016) In contrast with most other releases I’ve
Continue readingForbidden Rituals for the Destruction of Purity: bleakness and pain beneath a storm of filthy raw BM noise and grit
Chaînes Fantôme, Forbidden Rituals for the Destruction of Purity, United States, Akashic Envoy Records, AER-S007 limited edition cassette (2019) So
Continue readingSpatters of Paint, Bloody Wrist: more peaceful, radiant and serene than what the title says
Appropriate Savagery, Spatters of Paint, Bloody Wrist, Russia, Perfect Aesthetics, AEST-043 limited edition double cassette set (2019) Active since 2017
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