Else Marie Pade, Etude (1962), Faust Suite (1962), Syv Cirkler (1958) In January 2016, the world lost a major ground-breaking and rule-snapping
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Hirngemeer: a surrealist experimental BM exploration of mental breakdown
Todesstoss, Hirngemeer, Italy, I, Voidhanger Records, CD IVR045 (2015) I, Voidhanger Records is fast becoming the go-to extreme metal label
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Antico Adagio: spellbinding minimalist music of beauty and intense focus
Lino Capra Vaccina, Antico Adagio, Die Schachtel, DS27CD (2014) First issued in 1978, this beautiful if unassuming recording of minimalist
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Conditions of Acrimony: a confronting debut of post-industrial / noise sound art
Himukalt, Conditions of Acrimony, The Helen Scarsdale Agency, cassette HMS036 (2016) I confess I’ve never heard of Himukalt and its sole
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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
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It was a Time of Laboured Metaphors: a continuous shape-shifting landscape of hardly labouring metaphors
Kate Carr, It was a Time of Laboured Metaphors, The Helen Scarsdale Agency, cassette HMS035 (2016) Well, blow me down,
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Gnosis: fusion of east and west, body and spirit, in a rich and hypnotic work
Spectral Lore, Gnosis, Italy, I, Voidhanger Records, CD EP IVR050 (2015) I understand that this EP isn’t typical of Spectral
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Mode Bionics: blank-faced cyber-industrial pop minimalism a lot more intriguing than at first appears
Ariisk, Mode Bionics, US, Nostilevo, cassette # 79(2015) LA-based Nostilevo is making a name for itself in experimental electronic /
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Gnosis: Themes for Rituals Sacred & Profane, for creatures of free will governed by routines and habits
Allegory Chapel Ltd, Gnosis: Themes for Rituals Sacred & Profane, US, Nostilevo, cassette (2015) “You are not a machine …
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Catechism: a solid and restrained debut from a Satanic black metal act
Mortuus Umbra, Catechism, Forneus Records / Total Rust Records, CD FR007 / TRUST034 (2015) When your first proper release is
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