Reflet Crépusculaire, Fictions, United States, Witchcult Records, WC043 limited edition cassette (2022) Inspired by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges’s short
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Tag: avant-rock
Light Fingers
Blue Sausage Infant here with Supple Supple (INTANGIBLE ARTS IA014) record, a limited edition reissue of an item originally recorded
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Consecration of the Spiritus Flesh: intense blackened death psychedelia of nihilism and despair in a collapsing society
Esoctrilihum, Consecration of the Spiritüs Flesh, Italy, I, Voidhanger Records, CD A5 digipak (2022) Up to his seventh album for
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Douleurs: dolorous raw French black metal with a mediaeval folk edge
Vipère, Douleurs, France, Vetus Capra, limited edition CD digipak (July 2022) I had heard of French raw BM duo Vipère
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Worship the Degenerate: Saudi stalwarts Al Namrood deliver a punishing hybrid of black metal and Middle Eastern folk
Al Namrood, Worship the Degenerate, Canada, Shaytan Productions, QUAYAMAT-31 CD / vinyl LP (2022) Since releasing “Wala’at” back in 2020,
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Gateway The Hard Way
UK improviser Alex Ward was, when he started out, something of a wonderkind in the world of UK improvisation and
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Thanatos of Funk: reissue of a whimsically eclectic album of electro-disco funk, light metal and hip-hop
Minoru Fushimi, Thanatos of Funk, France, 180g, 180GRELP02 vinyl LP (1985, reissued 2022) For nearly 40 years after its first
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W: a work of calm and serenity through deep, immersive soundscapes
Boris, W, United States, Sacred Bones Records, SBR287 CD / vinyl LP (2022) Into their 30th year together as Boris,
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An Infinite Capacity
Liverpudlian player Phil Hargreaves hasn’t surfaced here for many a moon – I think the last we heard was his
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A Last Desperate Zocken
Hefty slab of studio-based avant-rock and electronics from Zoku Metsu, comprising American players Robert L. Pepper and Ron Anderson…Pepper has
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