Three otherwise unrelated items from the Room40 label that were inspired by or influenced by the global lockdown situation, all
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Tag: dark
Weird Tales
Canadian player Pierre-Yves Martel made a series of recordings for a blog called Weird Studies, said blog jointly hosted by
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Burial Escape Hatch
Intense record of thick, non-musical drone noise from HEXA on their Material Interstices (ROOM 40 RM4150); it’s a record created
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it’s nothing, but still: mundane found sounds and drones building into heavenly sound art
Steve Fors, it’s nothing, but still, Switzerland, Hallow Ground, HG 2201 vinyl LP (2022) Starting his career as half of
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Blood and Sorrow
Huntress (COLD SPRING RECORDS CSR282CD) is the fourth album from She Spread Sorrow, the Italian solo act of industrial death
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The Pestilence That Stalks In The Darkness
CD reissue of Veil The World (CSR205CD) by Trepaneringsritualen, also manufactured in LP form on “bone white vinyl” by the
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Urgrund: blackened doom metal coming from a deep primal subconscious source
Häxenzijrkell, Urgrund, Germany, Amor Fati Productions, AFP210, CD digipak (2022) A black / doom duo since forming in Essen in
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Thurisa: a haunting and mysterious recording of dark ambient / blackened dream pop rock
Circle of Ouroborus, Thurisa, United States, Final Agony Records, Final Agony 56, vinyl LP (2022) Astonishingly for a band that
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Fake: dynamic duo leading the way into a retro space jazz dystopian underworld
Lorenzo Feliciati & Dominique Vantomme, Fake, India, Subcontinental Records, SCR049 CD digipak (2022) Two veteran musicians (and long-time friends) in
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Red Heaven: a powerful style of depressive black metal / post-BM beauty
Ebola, Red Heaven, Japan, Zero Dimensional Records, ZDR083 CD (2022) The front cover artwork of Ebola’s “Red Heaven” album featuring
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