Moëvöt, Best of, Sanity Muffin, cassette s/m#40 (2013) As far as I know, this tape collects everything that was done
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Death My Hanging Doorway: an intense and aggressive recording with hints of despair
A Pregnant Light, Death My Hanging Doorway, Colloquial Sound Recordings, cassette CSR016 (2012) It’s a mystery to me that A
Continue readingCorollaries: beautiful and shifting soundscapes of continuous piano / violin music
Lubomyr Melnik, Corollaries, Erased Tapes Records Ltd, ertp048cd (2013) Pianist Lubomyr Melnik plays continuous minimalist piano music in a way
Continue readingEmpyraisch / The Power to Condemn: a harsh and severe but rewarding compilation of black metal / noise ritual worship
Sutekh Hexen, Empyräisch & The Power to Condemn, Petit Mal Music, PMALCD316 (2013) Black metal / noise duo Sutekh Hexen have
Continue readingComforts in Atrocity: darkly moody and sometimes hellish industrial ambient soundscapes
Mors Sonat, Comforts in Atrocity, Crucial Blast Records, CD CBR92 (2013) On paper at least, Mors Sonat boasts a respectable
Continue readingNecheshirion: intense all-out blackened death metal attack
Gevurah, Necheshirion, Profound Lore Records, CD PFL-116 (2013) For a genre famously dismissive of standard organised religion in all its
Continue readingDrink My Tears: a brave, original and immersive experimental black metal recording
Lord Time, Drink My Tears, Universal Consciousness, cassette U-8-C 35 (2012) “Primitive psychic metal”, eh? – “Drink My Tears” certainly
Continue readingAzad Hind: a powerful raging black metal / psychedelia with an anti-colonialist stance
Dressed in Streams, Azad Hind, Colloquial Sound Records, cassette CSR 018 (2012) In recent months I’ve been alerted to a
Continue readingSomatic Soundtracks: modest set of abstract experimental minimalism with a dub touch
Ulrich Troyer meets Georg Blaschke, Somatic Soundtracks, 4Bit Productions, CD 4Bit-P001 (2012) I’ve already passed quite a few pleasant afternoons
Continue readingZombie Skin: black metal kiddie pop debut on mainstream talent television show
Aaralyn and Izzy, Zombie Skin, America’s Got Talent auditions (Season 8, Episode 4), New York, recorded 25 June 2013 Waaal,
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