SunnO))) meets Nurse With Wound, The Iron Soul of Nothing, Ideologic Organ, CD soma005 (2011) My copy of “The Iron
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The Path of Liberation from Birth to Death: an epic and majestic soundtrack of buzzing, noisy black metal fusion
Njiqahdda, The Path of Liberation from Birth to Death, US, Pagan Flames Records, CD (2011) Where to begin? Here be a complex album of
Continue readingHitoyogiri: almost easy-listening Japanese noisy psych-guitar rock with a blues touch
Miminokoto, Hitoyogiri, Important Records, CD IMPREC338 (2011) Featuring the kind of bleak, dark noisy psychedelic blues that I usually expect
Continue readingGreat Explorers: gentle surf music and psych-pop amble through Cambridge
The Doozer, Great Explorers, United Kingdom, Pickled Egg, EGG76CD (2010) A very pleasant psych-pop amble through his home town of
Continue readingHands That Pluck: not quite the sterling send-off it could have been
Caïna, Hands That Pluck, Profound Lore Records, 2xCD PFL-082 (2011) This double CD set is Caïna’s swansong release and what a way
Continue readingAngels of Darkness, Demons of Light II: highly immersive yet quiet, laconic and minimal
Earth, Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II, US, Southern Lord, CD LORD149 (2012) Following its predecessor of the same
Continue readingImikuzushi: Fushitsusha briefly reborn in supercharged psychedelic power rock trio
Keiji Haino, Jim O’Rourke, Oren Ambarchi, Imikuzushi, Black Truffle Records / Medama Records, CD BT07 / MR 03 (2012) Starting
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Suns and Lovers Tasty rum fish of the month from November 2011…a double CD it be, by Sun Of Monkey…arrived
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A Ukrainian release for the Portuguese duo of Sturqen, who beef up their dark electronic tones with brutally simple techno
Continue readingDeathspell Omega: Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum: Chaining the Katechon
Deathspell Omega, Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum: Chaining the Katechon, Norma Evangelium Diaboli, Flame 49 CD (2008) One of the
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