After many CD releases, The Lickets finally made a vinyl LP. Here (on Earth) (INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION IC-011-A) contains just eight
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The Colonial Script (III): blackened doom drone metal meets dark ambient industrial / electronic dance music
Necro Deathmort, The Colonial Script (III), Distraction Records, CD DIST25 (2012) Opening track “Imperial” is a real shock to the system:
Continue readingDeteriorated Broadcast: another dimension where strange drones and textures glide by in dark liquid ambience
Vertonen, Deteriorated Broadcast, CIP, CDR16 (2011) A short series of muffled voices, as though from an expectant audience gathering to watch
Continue readingThe Iron Soul of Nothing: beautifully hypnotic ambient drone music mystery
SunnO))) meets Nurse With Wound, The Iron Soul of Nothing, Ideologic Organ, CD soma005 (2011) My copy of “The Iron
Continue readingWhat wind walks up above?
A Fold in the Fabric Gill Arno has rescued a document of a performance piece from 2006, where he perfomed
Continue readingThis is Dubstep: double compilation set of dubstep is music for a new Dark Age Britain
Various Artists, This is Dubstep (Expanded Edition), GetDarker, GD001CD (2010) Ain’t my usual line of music reviewing business here but
Continue readingExtinction: powerful and bleak black metal fusion work of humanity’s destruction
Nekrasov, Extinction, Crucial Blast Records, CD CBR86 (2010) Australian BM artist Nekrasov creates a powerful and bleak work of humanity’s
Continue readingR.I.P: travelogue of scenes of abstract electronic dub dance in a pleasant and cheery Hell
Actress, R.I.P, Honest Jon’s Records, HJRCD60 (2012) I’ve become very fond of this UK act, headed by one Darren Cunningham,
Continue readingMoving Slowly but in Different Ways
From two American cities come two releases that deal in slow-moving, expansive music that might loosely be filed under “drone.”
Continue readingWithin: hellish and enthralling fusion ambient black metal / industrial drone soundscapes
Ithi, Within, Land of Decay, cassette catalog 024 (2011) Here’s a dark, creepy ambient soundscape cassette release from a duo consisting
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