avant-rock – The Sound Projector

27/11/2020 Steve Pescott

Ernstwhile Pursuits

Loplop Loplop DENMARK GOTTA LET IT OUT RECORDS GLIO 420 C.D. (2019) With only perfunctory bandcamp and discogs entries plus

25/11/2020 nausika

Vines Grow Between My Eyes: a starkly minimal electronic / industrial folk album with an uncomfortable message

Happy Dead Man, Vines Grow Between My Eyes, Germany, Unrock, UNROCK 019 LP (2020) A collaboration of three stalwarts of

23/11/2020 nausika

G.O.H.E.: an exploration of personal guilt, downfall and self-destruction, and eventual salvation

In Cauda Venenum, G.O.H.E., France, Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions, LPAO-126, limited edition CD digipak / limited edition handcrafted CD

19/11/2020 Ed Pinsent

Dark Staircase Functions

Fairly grim noise-rock-plod grinderoo from Kragrowargkomn on the album TMA (URBSOUNDS URB048) from Urbsounds…recorded in Slovakia and carrying sleeve design,

18/11/2020 nausika

Allusion: a recording by a band at a crossroads in its career turns out a grind of the wrong kind

Epitimia, Allusion, United Kingdom, Onism Productions, ONISM004 limited edition CD digipak (2020) Not for the first time and certainly not

14/11/2020 nausika

Par-Delá Noireglaces et Brumes-Sinistres: an ambitious and highly individual mediaeval BM / dungeon synth debut

Crépuscule d’Hiver, Par-Delá Noireglaces et Brumes-Sinistres, France, Les Acteurs De l’Ombre Productions, AO-121 CD digipak / cassette / 12″ vinyl

11/11/2020 nausika

The Dawn of the Arriving Age: dawn of a solid technical BM trio with Middle Eastern folk and post-metal influences

Ethereal Credence, The Dawn of the Arriving Age, Poland, Via Nocturna, NOX125 DG CD (2020) Formed in Alexandria (Egypt) in

09/11/2020 nausika

Skáphe³: precision and a refined melodic approach escalate intense BM psychedelia to another insane level

Skáphe, Skáphe³, United States, Mystískaos, MS-18 cassette / 12″ vinyl (coloured) / Germany, Iron Bonehead Productions, CD digipak (2020) Farmed

27/10/2020 nausika

Proclamation ov the Black Suns: a very striking and solid debut album of 1990s’-era second-wave black metal with an experimental slant

Dkharmakhaoz, Proclamation ov the Black Suns, Germany, Iron Bonehead Productions, IBP 476 CD digipak / vinyl LP (2020) A very

24/10/2020 Ed Pinsent

Black Ice

Here’s an essential “dark beast” from Jac Berrocal, that maverick French performer who’s often mistaken for a jazz musician and