avant-rock – The Sound Projector

16/11/2022 Ed Pinsent

Beyond the Crossroads

The LP by Ambulatorio Segreto is the latest chapter in the stories of Miguel A Ruiz and Siegmar Fricke, whose

11/11/2022 nausika

NON baNd (self-titled): new lease of life for skronky post-punk / new wave cult band’s debut album

NON baNd, self-titled, Germany, TAL, TAL04 clear vinyl LP (2017, reissued 2022) Originally released back in 1982, the only album

05/11/2022 Ed Pinsent

Step Into My Boots

The Bootstrappers group was quite an interesting proposal in 1989, when guitarist Elliott Sharp joined forces with two of the

04/11/2022 Steve Pescott

Progtasmagoria

Zolder Ellipsis Entropy Override ITALY LIZARD RECORDS LIZARD CD0176 C.D. (2022) Initially released as Zolder Ellipsis by U.S. keyboardist/composer/producer Tom

03/11/2022 nausika

Autuala: blackened post-punk desolation from Finland’s veteran outsider duo

Circle of Ouroborus, Autuala, Greece, His Wounds, NAIL060 vinyl LP (2022) Coming a few months after Album No 20 “Aavikon

17/10/2022 Steve Pescott

Red Planet Crash

Masche Oxia Chaos ITALY ADN RECORDS DNN031C CD (2022) That rather thorny sleeve design seems to warn us of being

12/10/2022 nausika

Suicide Social: soundtrack to a personal descent into hell, in a society of forced and false happiness

Broyeur d’Enfance, Suicide Social, France, Acid Vicious, AVCD33 CD digipak (2022) Living in a society where pursuing happiness, comfort and

07/10/2022 nausika

Heavy Rocks (2022): putting 1970s hard rock and metal through the wringer of Boris-style experimentation

Boris, Heavy Rocks (2022), United States, Relapse Records, RR7526, CD / vinyl LP (2022) Celebrating 30 years (and a humongous

30/09/2022 nausika

Urgrund: blackened doom metal coming from a deep primal subconscious source

Häxenzijrkell, Urgrund, Germany, Amor Fati Productions, AFP210, CD digipak (2022) A black / doom duo since forming in Essen in

29/09/2022 nausika

Thurisa: a haunting and mysterious recording of dark ambient / blackened dream pop rock

Circle of Ouroborus, Thurisa, United States, Final Agony Records, Final Agony 56, vinyl LP (2022) Astonishingly for a band that