Grey Aura, Zwart Vierkant, United Kingdom, Onism Productions, ONISM006 CD digipak limited edition / vinyl limited edition (2021) A tough
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Tag: avant-rock
Polarity: icy atmospheric post-BM on a downward spiral with themes of isolation, loss and the terror of reality
Vixenta, Polarity, Italy, Flowing Downward, CD digipak (2021) Vixenta formed in Brisbane as a solo project by B., aka Brendon
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Black Spell / Satan’s Dance
Polish duo Michal Zuralski and his brother Piotr Zuralski are Kompozyt, who since 2018 have been producing these very convincing
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Celestial Triarchy: instrumental fusion BM / post-metal / post-rock debut blast from new heaven-bound trio
Nuummite, Celestial Triarchy, United Kingdom, Trepanation Recordings, vinyl LP (2021) Not for the first time – and certainly not for
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Vampyric Castle: neo-primitive lo-fi black metal inspired by the legend of Vlad the Impaler
Le’Vampyric, Vampyric Castle, Singapore, Ancient Horror Records, ANHOR 017 cassette (2021) In case the album and song titles are not
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Sem Proposito: a heady and intoxicating fusion of black metal, ambient, electronica and space psychedelia
Bríi, Sem Proposito, Brazil, self-released cassette (2021) Over the past twelve months I have come across some amazing experimental ambient
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Fuyu: a journey of Sisyphean effort through a dark and depressive fusion of doom, drone, sludge metal, shoegaze and stoner rock
Low Flying Hawks, Fuyu, United States, Magnetic Eye Records, MER074, CD digisleeve / double vinyl LP (2021) The third album
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Natura Aeternum (self-titled): a mix of atmospheric black metal and ambient dreamy pop
Natura Aeternum, self-titled, Bulgaria, BMC Productions, CD (2021) A self-titled fourth album, when previous albums have had other titles, might
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Rhizomatic Oaths
Dense record of French instrumental art-music from Palo Alto, aiming to articulate or invoke the ideas of the philosopher Gilles
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Cleaning Duties
From Krakow in Poland, we have the Polish avant-rock group Stare Tasmy with a fine release called Kryzys Czytelnictwa (SOROS
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