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
Continue readingit’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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Huntress (COLD SPRING RECORDS CSR282CD) is the fourth album from She Spread Sorrow, the Italian solo act of industrial death
Continue readingThe 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
Continue readingUrgrund: 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
Continue readingThurisa: 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
Continue readingFake: 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
Continue readingRed 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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New batch from Zoharum of four darksters of which Kontinent’s Stasis (ZOHAR 233-2) has already been reviewed by Jennifer here.
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