Ora Clementi, Sylva Sylvarum, Australia, Black Truffle Records, BT077 vinyl 2 x LP (2021) Hands up who stopped by Black
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Category: Current listening
Dog Mountain: a sparse, minimalist album commenting on borders, boundaries and divisions
Laurin Huber, Dog Mountain, Switzerland, Hallow Ground, vinyl LP (2021) With a name like “Dog Mountain” and a photo of
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Sentence: more like a full-blown tome of thrashy punk melodic black metal aggression
Au-Delà, Sentence, France, Epictural Productions, ADS2021 CD (2021) “Sentence”? This debut album from French black metallers Au-Delà perhaps deserves the
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Antediluvian: atmospheric doom jazz journey mucking about in dark gloom
Bong-Ra, Antediluvian, The Netherlands, Tartarus Records, TAR116 cassette / vinyl LP (2021) Originally released digitally through Svart Lava Records in
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Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two): familiar musical and sonic elements revisited and recombined into new forms to expand the consciousness
Jon Hassell, Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two), United States, Ndeya, NDEYA7 CD / vinyl LP (2020) I just found
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Oyer and Terminer: Salem witch trials of 1692, religious oppression and persecution through a raw melodic BM lens
Till, Oyer and Terminer, United Kingdom (Northern Ireland), Worship the Void Records, WTV-012, cassette (2021) / United States, Blasphemous Creations
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Mathreyata: dark and disturbing sludge doom metal psychedelia relying too much on repetition
Dark Buddha Rising, Mathreyata, Finland, Svart Records, SVART243 vinyl LP (2020) After several busy years from 2007 to 2015 during
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Sompas-Naga: a mesmeric black metal / Thai folk music fusion
Lotus of Darkness, Sompas-Naga, Colombia, Namtaru Records, NR008 CD (2021) Here comes very melodic black metal folk music with distinctly
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Eminence: a dense, intricate and manic blast through European / French Fin-de-Siecle culture
Passéisme, Eminence, France, Antiq Records, CD / vinyl LP (2021) Ha! Like many others I was taken in by Passéisme’s
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Le Pressoir Mystique: a raw depressive black metal investigation into a mediaeval Christian past that reveals its darkness, trauma and agony
Givre, Le Pressoir Mystique, Canada, Winter Sky Records, cassette (2021) Translated into English as “Christ in the Wine Press”, this
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