Boy, are things frustrating me lately. Maybe I just need a half of minim…mind you there is nothing like starting
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Transcending into the Cold: epic debut for up-and-coming UK post-black metal act
Rosaceae, Transcending into the Cold, Red River Family Records, cassette 007 (2013) Rosaceae is an apt name for this English
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David Kirby used four tape recorders to build a large-scale collision event of music, sound and noise on Cittakarnera (COPY
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The plaintive cry of Loren Connors and Suzanne Langille is I Wish I Didn’t Dream (NORTHERN SPY RECORDS NSCD 031),
Continue readingThe Lost Entrance of the Just: soft and pretty black metal pop with an ominous, brooding edge
Circle of Ouroborus, The Lost Entrance of the Just, Handmade Birds Records, HB-020 (vinyl release 2012, CD release 2013) Originally
Continue readingAbrahadabra: a dark black metal / shoegazer pop album of despair and foreboding
Circle of Ouroborus, Abrahadabra, Kuunpalvelus, LP (2012) One of my favourite Finnish bands, the black metal / shoegazer post-rock duo
Continue readingSkullflower / Utarm (self-titled): boring deep into minds conscious and unconscious with black metal noise
Skullflower / Utarm, self-titled, Turgid Animal Records, CD (2013) Released by Turgid Animal Records, run by self-proclaimed mutant ape fella
Continue readingComforts in Atrocity: darkly moody and sometimes hellish industrial ambient soundscapes
Mors Sonat, Comforts in Atrocity, Crucial Blast Records, CD CBR92 (2013) On paper at least, Mors Sonat boasts a respectable
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With a name that still to me, smacks more of canteens and food processing than the monochrome autopsy/Manson kulcha of
Continue readingThe Purloined Letters
Omnivore is Glenna van Nostrand from Cambridge, MA. On her self-titled LP (FEEDING TUBE RECORDS FTR072) the gimmick is that
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