Arash Akbari from Tehran has released Amnestic Continuum (fp086) for Farpoint Recordings. Ten tracks, all of them created by utilising
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Dark Space -II: cosmic darkspace black metal trio on a new adventure
Darkspace, Dark Space -II, France, Season of Mist, SOM776 CD digisleeve / vinyl LP (2024) With the departure of bassist
Continue readingContranatura: a three-stage descent into the deepest part of Hell
Reflection of Misery, Contranatura, Nicaragua, Exnihilo Records, ENR07, CD (2023) Onto their third recording and second album “Contranatura”, and already
Continue readingBlack 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
Continue readingAsphalt / Concrete: everyday sounds in urban Osaka become portals to microworlds beyond our experience
Masayuki Imanishi, Asphalt / Concrete, Belgium, Unfathomless, U82 CD (2024) For the past several years since the global COVID-19 pandemic
Continue readingEcclesia 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
Continue readingTiger Magic
Multiple talents have come together to realise One Or Several Tigers (CELLULE 75 CELL-9), a true oddity which I am
Continue readingVissiones ov Naeku the’e Plowmanne: a mediaeval English pilgrimage through forest and mountain landscapes of northern India
Piyakdu, Vissiones ov Naeku the’e Plowmanne, United States, Grime Stone Records, (no catalogue number) cassette / CD (2023) Partly inspired
Continue readingOdium: 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
Continue readingSchemen: eight incredible if fleeting soundscapes of free-jazz noise psychedelia
Kammerflimmer Kollektief, Schemen, Germany, Karl Records, KR101 CD / 180 gr LP (2023) Karlsruhe-based experimental free-jazz combo Kammerflimmer Kollektief goes
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