Chaînes Fantôme, Forbidden Rituals for the Destruction of Purity Pt II, United States, Ancestral Flame Productions, AFP-014 limited edition cassette
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Spatters 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
Continue readingAevum: a technically accomplished work that falls far short of greatness
Vukari, Aevum, Germany, Vendetta Records, vendetta records #183 CD / LP (2019) Originally formed as Vucari in 2013 – strange
Continue readingInto Frosty Waters
Finding very little to enjoy in the murky textures of Nekyia (ART FIRST RECORDS ATF072), an album created by the
Continue readingThe Grey Dawning
An intense and foreboding set is Den Förföljdes Gryning (iDEAL RECORDINGS 178), realised by the formidable Daniel Rozenhall in Stockolhm,
Continue readingDomestic Violence
Here I am enduring yet another release by The New Blockaders, the original noise band with whose output I have
Continue readingThe Forcing Season: Further Acts of Severance – impressions of Planet Earth being engulfed by a chaos from within
Sky Burial, The Forcing Season: Further Acts of Severance, Opa Loka Records, OL1904 CD (2019) Sky Burial is the solo
Continue readingDoctrine: first step on a long dark (and hopefully fruitful) journey in the Left Hand Path
Qayin Regis, Doctrine, Spain, BlackSeed Productions, SEED052 CD / vinyl (2019) With a name that includes the Hebrew form of
Continue readingPyrefication: a raw ambient noise BM universe of unending darkness, pain and spiritual torment
Pa Vesh En, Pyrefication, Germany, Iron Bonehead Productions, CD digipak limited edition (2019) For a band that put out its
Continue readingDren is Hungry
Polish murk and semi-industrial gloom from Dren, a duo of players named Natt and Akton who live in Tri-City in
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