Reflection of Misery, Contranatura, Nicaragua, Exnihilo Records, ENR07, CD (2023) Onto their third recording and second album “Contranatura”, and already
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Tag: avant-rock
Black Tides: a whimsical ride through blackened surf rock / psychedelia and Lovecraft-lite horror
Kólga, Black Tides, United States, self-released, CD / vinyl LP (2024) One look at that wacky album cover and I
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Ecclesia Gnostica: an ambitious melodic black metal debut in esoteric spirituality and Gnostic philosophy
A/Oratos, Ecclesia Gnostica, France, Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions, AO 230 CD / LPAO-231 vinyl LP (2024) Nearly five years
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Get to know the Green Personality
Three new items from the Discus Music label, all arrived 7th November 2022. Green Money (DISCUS 142CD) is by Day
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Odium: blackened death metal / industrial soundscape journeys through a hostile, malevolent cosmos
Mahr, Odium, Germany, Amor Fati Productions, AFP250 CD / vinyl LP (2023) Like fellow Prava Kollektiv bands Arkhtinn, Hwwauoch, Pharmakeia
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Come Aboard, We’re Expecting You
From our man in Helsinki we received two new CDs by Jussi Lehtisalo, the talented fellow from Circle and Pharaoh
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Tago Mago: a classic of joyful, jazz-inspired improvisation embracing trance, funk, psychedelia and experimentation
Can, Tago Mago, United Artists Records, UAS 29 211/12 X, 2 x vinyl LP (1971) The news of Damo Suzuki’s
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Under the Gaze of Dissolution: diving into a black sonic universe of pain, torment and madness
Hwwauoch, Under the Gaze of Dissolution, Germany, Amor Fati Productions, vinyl LP (2023) Along with four other bands, these being
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To Infect | To Inflict: a murky, noisy work of cosmic black metal
Voidsphere, To Infect | To Inflict, Germany, Amor Fati Productions, AFP 251 CD / vinyl LP (2023) Like its sibling
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Maenadic Ecstasy: a brutal and bestial set of black metal noise ambience
Pharmakeia, Maenadic Ecstasy, Germany, Amor Fati Productions, AFP 252 cassette / vinyl LP (2023) The youngest of the Prava Kollektiv
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