Process of Guilt, Fæmin, Bleak Recordings (2012) “Fæmin” is the third album by the doom metal band Process of Guilt who
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Dream Seeds: too bland, poppy and smooth for very dark subject matter
Extra Life, Dream Seeds, Northern Spy Records, NSCD 022 (2012) That album cover has that curious and creepy look that
Continue readingV: best work by two soul music brothers
KTL, V, Editions Mego, CD eMEGO 120 (2012) For a band that formed in 2007 to score music for a
Continue readingThe Feather tipped the Serpent’s Scale: album inspired by vivid and unusual concept
Eagle Twin, The Feather tipped the Serpent’s Scale, US, Southern Lord, CD (2012) Reading the fine print on the gatefold
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Une Saison en Enfer Season Two (SOLAR IPSE #01) is the latest team-up of those two Italian improvisers Ninni Morgia
Continue readingAstromancy: outsider avant-rock / pop with hiphop and funk rhythms and film-noir ambience
Fastest, Astromancy, Galaxy Records, CD (2012) Misfit one-man band Fastest returns with his seventh original full-length album to deliver yet
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Métal Urbain Here’s TSP favourite Franck Vigroux with a new solo record, his first for about two years since the
Continue readingHewers of Wood and Drawers of Water: a varied album of dark folk, apocalyptic visions and unexpected toughness
Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat, Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water, Zeal, zealcdee 029 (2010) It took me
Continue readingNazoranai: a gripping and terrifying debut from Dark Overlord Keiji Haino’s new trio
Nazoranai, self-titled, Editions Mego / Ideologic Organ, CD SOMA009 (2012) No sooner had I heard of Keiji Haino’s revival of
Continue readingDusk Dawn / Follow You Beloved: immersive darkwave ambient mood pieces of temporal borderlands and sinister obsessive love
Aelter, Dusk Dawn / Follow You Beloved, Crucial Blast, 2xCD (2011) A repackaging of two recordings that were originally self-released
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