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06/12/2019 nausika

Tragediens 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

05/12/2019 nausika

Patience: 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

04/12/2019 nausika

Something 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.

29/11/2019 nausika

Forbidden 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

28/11/2019 nausika

The 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

27/11/2019 nausika

Forbidden 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

22/11/2019 nausika

Bantou Mentale (self-titled): more lively and easy listening than challenging as African-Western fusions go

Bantou Mentale, self-titled, Germany, Glitterbeat Records, GB073LP (2019) Bantou Mentale is a recent quartet based in Paris, of which three

21/11/2019 nausika

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

20/11/2019 nausika

Aevum: 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

19/11/2019 nausika

The Old Evil: finding a rich ore of inspiration in the gap between old 1980s speed / thrash metal and the later metal underground

Baxaxaxa, The Old Evil, Germany, self-released cassette (2019) Formed as a one-man project for a brief period in 1992, this