avant-rock – Page 28 – The Sound Projector

24/12/2019 nausika

Pyroclasts: companion album to “Life Metal” is a complete work in its own right

Sunn0))), Pyroclasts, United States, Southern Lord, SUNN 333 vinyl (2019) Recorded in the same sessions as the earlier 2019 release

19/12/2019 nausika

Sand Enigma: an ambitious foray into a multi-universe of many possibilities but not plumbing very deeply

Land of Kush, Sand Enigma, Constellation Records, CST146 CD / vinyl double LP (2019) As long as I’ve been writing

18/12/2019 nausika

Acéphale and Arkhé Tenebre: in the midst of sheer horror, despair and catastrophe, beauty and mystery can be found

S.E.K.H., Acéphale & Arkhé Tenebre, United States, Sentient Ruin Laboratories, SRUIN103 limited edition cassette (2019) At the time of writing,

13/12/2019 nausika

Ytenic Blód: a varied set of noisy experimental raw ambient black metal from an obscure British collective

Albionic Hermeticism, Ytenic Blód, United Kingdom, self-released limited edition cassette (2019) Part of a British-based black metal collective known as

09/12/2019 Ed Pinsent

Anatomy Of The Eye

Excellent avant-rock from Trinary System on Lights In The Center Of Your Head (FEEDING TUBE RECORDS FTR452). This is the

08/12/2019 Ed Pinsent

Former Reflections Enduring Doubt

I feel Jeffrey Alexander’s music has only tangentially graced our shores…we heard one compilation by The Iditarod, and have a

06/12/2019 nausika

Tragediens Trone (self-titled): a dense dissonant style of blackened death metal in need of inspired concept and songs

Tragediens Trone, self-titled, France, Osmose Productions, OPCDL378 (2019) Just when you think the French and the Spanish had cornered this

05/12/2019 Ed Pinsent

Scarcity Of Tanks and Total Life

In May 2019 we received a generous package of releases by Scarcity Of Tanks (SOT), the Cleveland band featuring guitarist

01/12/2019 Ed Pinsent

Loop Statements

I see I was pretty dismissive of the last offering from Eclectic Maybe Band who released The Blind Night Watchers’

29/11/2019 nausika

Forbidden Rituals for the Destruction of Purity Pt II: more raw psychic vampiric BM bait for unsuspecting prey

Chaînes Fantôme, Forbidden Rituals for the Destruction of Purity Pt II, United States, Ancestral Flame Productions, AFP-014 limited edition cassette