Composer Daniel Stearns freely owns up to the peculiar mental state of “dissociation”, which manifests itself as unusual occasions or
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Mother: ambient raw black metal in a vast and ancient landscape of flat plains, dry heat and the threat of fire
Cicadan, Mother, US, Eternal Warfare, cassette (2013) Cicadan is a recent black metal act based in Cobram, located on the
Continue readingAnarchic: an intriguing work of dark atmospheric transcendental black metal art
Skagos, Anarchic, The Flenser, CD (2013) At this time of writing, “Anarchic” is an enigmatic work: not all of it
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From Göteborg in Sweden [1. Also the home of Fang Bomb Records, our favourite label of angsty and grating Swedish
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Concrete and Clay I quite like the Gobi Wow (NEVER COME ASHORE NCALP1) LP from FvRTvR, which turns out to
Continue readingFabriksampler V4: winding its way through different musical territories of Elektronikopia
Various Artists, Fabriksampler V4, Pharmafabrik, PFCD020 (2011) Featuring acts from several countries in Europe and from South Africa, this is
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Manitou (ALREALON ALRN034) by Blue Sausage Infant arrived here 21 May 2012. This is the gifted instrumentalist Chester Hawkins of
Continue readingThe Grain: country music was never so massive or monumental as this homage to wheat fields
Slomo, The Grain, Trilithon, TRCD05 (2012) Here are two very stretched-out tracks of creeping, repetitive droning music that revolve around
Continue readingAethyrvorous (self-titled demo): an intense and deeply committed immersion in the black art
Aethyrvorous, self-titled, self-released cassette tape (2009) While looking at something else on Youtube.com, I glanced to the right-hand side of
Continue readingBreed in Me the Darkness: demon hybrid child needs to spread its wings and rejoice in full satanic blackened noise glory
Sutekh Hexen and Andrew Liles, Breed in Me the Darkness, Aurora Borealis Records, cassette (2012) (NB Album scheduled for
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