Blue Sabbath Black Cheer & The Rita, Drowning Witches, Debacle Records, CD DBL043 (2010) With a name like Blue Sabbath
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Within: hellish and enthralling fusion ambient black metal / industrial drone soundscapes
Ithi, Within, Land of Decay, cassette catalog 024 (2011) Here’s a dark, creepy ambient soundscape cassette release from a duo consisting
Continue readingOut of the Coma: Comus returns from long hiatus with new smoky jazz edge
Comus, Out of the Coma, Coptic Cat, NIFE 014CD (2012) Out of the coma? – more like out of the
Continue readingDust in our Mouths: a bleak and frightening ambient black / noise soundscape
Wraiths, Dust in our Mouths, Aurora Borealis, CD abx045 (2010) A bleak and frightening ambient black / noise soundscape that
Continue readingI will Never Have the Right: minimalist power electronics album masks anger and frustration at world
Iron Fist of the Sun, I will Never Have the Right, Finland, Freak Animal Records, CD (2011) Iron Fist of
Continue readingHypnos: for once, the hype fails to live up to the music – wonderfully delirious and immersive
Mario Diaz de Leon, Hypnos, Shinkoyo, CD SHIN040 (2012) Third solo album for this musician / composer and apparently a
Continue readingHitoyogiri: almost easy-listening Japanese noisy psych-guitar rock with a blues touch
Miminokoto, Hitoyogiri, Important Records, CD IMPREC338 (2011) Featuring the kind of bleak, dark noisy psychedelic blues that I usually expect
Continue readingDisciples of Shit – Live Waste: pitiless blackened doom sludge industrial
Sewer Goddess, Disciples of Shit – Live Waste, US, Black Plague / Malignant Records, CD INFECT08 (2011?) Recorded over a
Continue readingOskoreien: self-titled debut heralds a new player in Cascadian black metal
Oskoreien, Oskoreien, Pest Productions, CD PEST048 (2010) “Oskoreien” is an intriguing addition to the world of nature-oriented Cascadian black metal,
Continue readingEcailles de Lune: very pretty black metal / shoegazer pop
Alcest, Ecailles de Lune, Germany Prophecy Productions CD PRO 106 (2010) Bands like Alcest sure do like to mock the
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