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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

21/09/2022 nausika

Nahanagan Stadial: non-stop blackened death / war metal chaos is a mess but still a lot of fun

Coscradh, Nahanagan Stadial, Ireland, Invictus Productions, IP185, CD digipak / vinyl (2022) A gloriously messy recording of non-stop destruction and chaos,

20/09/2022 Ed Pinsent

Musical Squares

Three new items from the UK label Discus Music, from 11th October 2021 (and one old one). On Provenance (DISCUS

15/09/2022 Steve Pescott

Frisian Gold

Zea Witst Noch Dat d’r Neat Wie NETHERLANDS MAKKUM RECORDS MR33 / SUBROUTINE RECORDS SR119 L.P. (2021) With the ‘Zea‘

14/09/2022 nausika

Fake: dynamic duo leading the way into a retro space jazz dystopian underworld

Lorenzo Feliciati & Dominique Vantomme, Fake, India, Subcontinental Records, SCR049 CD digipak (2022) Two veteran musicians (and long-time friends) in