avant-rock – Page 11 – The Sound Projector

29/07/2022 Ed Pinsent

Blue Oblongs, Part 2

Continuing note of new tapes from the UK label Bluetapes, which arrived 20th September 2021. Bulbils are the team of

20/07/2022 nausika

Aavikon Varjo: Finnish outsider black metal duo still strong with 20th album

Circle of Ouroborus, Aavikon varjo, China, Goatawarex, WAXGOAT203 2 x vinyl LP (2022) Never would I have thought, when I

09/07/2022 nausika

Gospel et le râteau: swansong work by an idiosyncratic and eclectic artist

Ghédalia Tazartès, Gospel et le râteau, France, Bisou Records, BIS-014-U CD / vinyl LP (2022) A compilation of previously unreleased

01/07/2022 nausika

Fictions: raw experimental black metal inspired by Borges’s literary universe

Reflet Crépusculaire, Fictions, United States, Witchcult Records, WC043 limited edition cassette (2022) Inspired by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges’s short

30/06/2022 Ed Pinsent

Light Fingers

Blue Sausage Infant here with Supple Supple (INTANGIBLE ARTS IA014) record, a limited edition reissue of an item originally recorded

21/06/2022 nausika

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

07/06/2022 nausika

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

31/05/2022 nausika

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,

28/05/2022 Ed Pinsent

Gateway The Hard Way

UK improviser Alex Ward was, when he started out, something of a wonderkind in the world of UK improvisation and

27/05/2022 nausika

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