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Tag: dark

14/09/2021 nausika

Polarity: icy atmospheric post-BM on a downward spiral with themes of isolation, loss and the terror of reality

Vixenta, Polarity, Italy, Flowing Downward, CD digipak (2021) Vixenta formed in Brisbane as a solo project by B., aka Brendon

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08/09/2021 nausika

Celestial Triarchy: instrumental fusion BM / post-metal / post-rock debut blast from new heaven-bound trio

Nuummite, Celestial Triarchy, United Kingdom, Trepanation Recordings, vinyl LP (2021) Not for the first time – and certainly not for

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07/09/2021 Ed Pinsent

Skull & Roses

Four new items from the Zoharum label, all arrived 2nd February 2021. Berlin duo NNHMN have crossed our path previously

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04/09/2021 Ed Pinsent

Terra Incognita / Seeing Shadows

Noted William St Hugh in 2020 with his Weasels Devour The Sun album, an exemplary slab of dark and slow

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04/09/2021 nausika

Winter: a rich and immersive set of noise drone soundscapes on a theme of decay and collapse

Kleistwahr, Winter, United States, The Helen Scarsdale Agency, HMS 050 B, vinyl LP (2021) In my little corner of the

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02/09/2021 nausika

Fuyu: a journey of Sisyphean effort through a dark and depressive fusion of doom, drone, sludge metal, shoegaze and stoner rock

Low Flying Hawks, Fuyu, United States, Magnetic Eye Records, MER074, CD digisleeve / double vinyl LP (2021) The third album

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28/08/2021 nausika

Music for Acoustic Instruments and Feedback: a graceful and enchanting album of heavenly ambience

Vanessa Amara, Music for Acoustic Instruments and Feedback, Denmark, Posh Isolation, PI 249 vinyl LP (2021) In case we need

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26/08/2021 nausika

Get On: PITA’s last major work feels incomplete and open-ended … just the way it should be

PITA, Get On, Austria, Editions Mego, EMEGO 269, vinyl LP (2019) The news of Peter Rehberg’s sudden death on 22

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20/08/2021 Ed Pinsent

Private Message / Reality Repro / Vacant Room / Moving Strata

Danish musician Mads Emil Nielsen is mostly known in these pages for his Framework series – rather abstract and severe

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18/08/2021 nausika

Mntu: a raw and powerful atmospheric black metal debut of personal struggle and reconnection with First Nations heritage

Ushangvagush, Mntu, United States, Vigor Deconstruct, cassette / vinyl LP (2021) For a raw atmospheric black metal release, the cover

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