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