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03/01/2026 Ed Pinsent

As You Are Now, So Once Was I

Swedish creator Thomas Ekelund usually arouses our sympathy for his self-confessed borderline personality disorder, which I think leads him into

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15/01/2018 Ed Pinsent

Hostile Environment

Disquieting and unpleasant noise from Shift on his Abandon (COLD SPRING RECORDS CSR236CD) record…Shift is Martin Willford who started out

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05/01/2018 Ed Pinsent

Horns Of Bitterness

Last heard from TenHornedBeast in 2010 with his Hunts & Wars album for Cold Spring Records…he’s back again this year

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31/08/2017 Ed Pinsent

Enter The Heptagon

Trepaneringsritualen is the Swedish industrial doom thing whose abject music has long been appreciated in these quarters…Thomas Martin Ekelund may

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31/07/2017 Ed Pinsent

Throne Of Blood

Now for some very grisly and soul-shattering “Horror-Electronics” from the American magus Burial Hex (Clay Ruby) last heard in these

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07/08/2016 Ed Pinsent

Sterile Processing Technicians

Sterile Garden is another obscure noise project of which I know very little. They may be a trio comprising man

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05/01/2015 Ed Pinsent

Wretched Guitars

Another superbly bleak record from Yek Koo, following on from 2012’s Love Song for The Dead C. The new album

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07/07/2014 nausika

Silence: plenty to say but a better and more powerful form of expression is needed

Echo of Emptiness, Silence, Depressive Illusion Records, CDR cut 1061 (2013) For an album titled “Silence”, this recording turns out

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04/04/2013 Ed Pinsent

Condensing Clouds

From Göteborg in Sweden [1. Also the home of Fang Bomb Records, our favourite label of angsty and grating Swedish

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02/04/2011 Ed Pinsent

A Cursed Figure in a Bleak Landscape

Fine package of alienated spew from LF Records in Bristol which we registered in the packing bay on 4th January

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