Gnaw Their Tongues / Alkerdeel, Dyodyo Asema, Belgium, ConSouling Sounds, SOUL0033 (2014) Those of us familiar with the lumbering sludge BM of
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Ship of Theseus: still sailing seas of vast microtonal black / doom metal waters
Jute Gyte, Ship of Theseus, Jeshimoth Entertainment, CDR JES068 (2015) No sooner did Jute Gyte’s Adam Kalmbach complete the trilogy “Discontinuities”, “Vast
Continue readingThe Triumph of Ruin: a solid and earnest effort in post-apocalyptic funereal doom
The Howling Void, The Triumph of Ruin, Avantgarde Music (2016) The Howling Void … now here’s a good name for
Continue readingKofuku: don’t resist the clutch of this depressive sludge doom psychedelia fusion pop / rock debut
Low Flying Hawks, Kofuku, Magnetic Eye Records, CD MER040 (2016) An interesting new presence coming over the horizon of sludge
Continue readingBlack Shape of Nexus / Lazarus Blackstar: a very complementary sludge-doom pairing
Black Shape of Nexus / Lazarus Blackstar, self-titled, Germany, Alerta Antifascista Records, split LP AA94 (December 2013) I confess I
Continue readingHealing Hands
Disappointing Polish murk from Echoes Of Yul on The Healing (ZOHARUM 106-2 / TAR TRAIL RECORDS TT 001-2)…multi-instrumentalist Michal Sliwa
Continue readingDesert Suns: stoner doom band’s time has arrived with reissue of debut album
Desert Suns, self-titled, Ripple Music / HeviSike Records (2016) Hailing from San Diego is a new four-piece stoner doom band Desert
Continue readingPain Cleanses Every Doubt: immense force and power remove doubt about a new black metal band’s worth
Ultha, Pain Cleanses Every Doubt, Ecocentric Records, CD ER#195 (2015) Ultha is a new black metal band from Germany but at
Continue readingHold hard, these ancient minutes
Overpowering and intense grim rock noise from James Welburn on his album Hold (MIASMAH RECORDINGS MIACD031) which appears to be
Continue readingYou’ve Always Meant So Much To Me: this mini-movie soundtrack will mean a lot in different ways
Wrekmeister Harmonies, You’ve Always Meant So Much To Me, Thrill Jockey Records, Thrill 339 12″ vinyl (2013) Originally this one-track
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