dark – The Sound Projector

25/11/2020 nausika

Vines Grow Between My Eyes: a starkly minimal electronic / industrial folk album with an uncomfortable message

Happy Dead Man, Vines Grow Between My Eyes, Germany, Unrock, UNROCK 019 LP (2020) A collaboration of three stalwarts of

19/11/2020 Ed Pinsent

Dark Staircase Functions

Fairly grim noise-rock-plod grinderoo from Kragrowargkomn on the album TMA (URBSOUNDS URB048) from Urbsounds…recorded in Slovakia and carrying sleeve design,

14/11/2020 nausika

Par-Delá Noireglaces et Brumes-Sinistres: an ambitious and highly individual mediaeval BM / dungeon synth debut

Crépuscule d’Hiver, Par-Delá Noireglaces et Brumes-Sinistres, France, Les Acteurs De l’Ombre Productions, AO-121 CD digipak / cassette / 12″ vinyl

11/11/2020 nausika

The Dawn of the Arriving Age: dawn of a solid technical BM trio with Middle Eastern folk and post-metal influences

Ethereal Credence, The Dawn of the Arriving Age, Poland, Via Nocturna, NOX125 DG CD (2020) Formed in Alexandria (Egypt) in

09/11/2020 nausika

Skáphe³: precision and a refined melodic approach escalate intense BM psychedelia to another insane level

Skáphe, Skáphe³, United States, Mystískaos, MS-18 cassette / 12″ vinyl (coloured) / Germany, Iron Bonehead Productions, CD digipak (2020) Farmed

08/11/2020 nausika

VII: darkly monumental drone noise electronics terror for the pandemic age

KTL, VII, Editions Mego, Austria, EMEGO 287 cassette / vinyl (2020) For a project initially established to provide music for

05/11/2020 Ed Pinsent

Memorial Service

In 2019, we received and heard and very much enjoyed the unique Orféon Gagarin album, originally made by Miguel A.

28/10/2020 Ed Pinsent

An Alignment of Stars

Quite good instrumental music from 900RPM on their cassette Der Golem (SUBLIME RETREAT SR002), where they perform a modern soundtrack

18/10/2020 nausika

Sel de Pierre: powerful epic blackened depressive sludge doom with a hint of hope and optimism

Vous Autres, Sel de Pierre, France, Season of Mist Underground Activists, SUA117 CD digipak / 12″ vinyl LP (2020) Not

17/10/2020 nausika

Eternity of Shaog: deranged blackened death Lovecraftian demonic possession par excellence

Esoctrilihum, Eternity of Shaog, Italy, I, Voidhanger Records, IVR130 double LP / CD (2020) MAD FRENCH BLACK METAL ACT ALERT!