Ordinance, In Purge There Is No Remission, Finland, The Sinister Flame, TSF013 CD / LP (2020) It starts off sounding
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Category: Current listening
Timewheel: primeval forces of nature and time, once worshipped as gods, calling to listeners in atmospheric black metal debut
Gloosh, Timewheel, Russia, Slowsnow Records, no catalogue number, cassette / Russia, Casus Belli Musica, CBM 77 vinyl LP / Germany,
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Aralkum: a melancholy work of ambient electroacoustic immersion skirting around its theme of manmade ecological disaster
Galya Bisengalieva, Aralkum, United Kingdom, One Little Independent Records, TPLP1572 vinyl / CD (2020) A violinist and leader of the
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Kryptograf (self-titled): psychedelic doom metal debut plays safe with Sabbath-worshipping pop songs
Kryptograf, self-titled, Norway, Apollon Records, AP072 CD, LP (2020) Proof positive that anything anyone can do, the Norwegians can do
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Naiv: black metal eclecticism ends up in Eurovision disco cheese territory
Thy Catafalque, Naiv, France, Season of Mist, SOM552 vinyl LP (2020) As its title suggests, “Naiv” is intended as a
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A Mimesis of Nothingness: a series of dark soundscape pieces exploring an individual’s experiences of Tehran
Siavash Amini, A Mimesis of Nothingness, Switzerland, Hallow Ground, HG2006 vinyl LP (2020) Tehran-based composer / guitarist Siavash Amini has
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Ressources Humaines: depressive / suicidal black metal treated as near-experimental ambient music to portray depression in all its chaos and darkness
Déception, Ressources Humaines, France, self-released CD (2020) Its four members known only by three-digit numbers 501, 735, 739 and 813,
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Viimeinen Juoksu: outsider black-gaze / post-punk rock finally in from the cold with a mix of defiance and despair
Circle of Ouroborus, Viimeinen Juoksu, Greece, His Wounds, NAIL006 gold vinyl LP (2020) In a fair universe that exists in
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Grief: epic atmospheric and dreamy black-gaze concept work on the hopes and aspirations of Russian peasantry
Sivyj Yar, Grief, Italy, Avantgarde Music, AV380 CD digipak (2020) After four years of relative quiet in contrast to the
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Everything Evaporate: a remarkable sound art experience in which boundaries between worlds all dissolve
Félicia Atkinson, Everything Evaporate, France, Shelter Press, SP121 cassette (2020) Félicia Atkinson is a French-born, Belgian-based musician with a considerable
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