doom – The Sound Projector

15/12/2020 nausika

Ode to the Dark: a fearsome vampiric BM foursome with a taste for the Gothic and the operatic

Umbrivago Sombrio, Ode to the Dark, United Kingdom, Ancient Entity Records, AER 011 cassette (2020) “Ode to the Dark”, the

07/12/2020 nausika

The Sorcerer’s Sorrow: a spiritual journey at once bleak and desolate, yet hopeful and soothing

Anachitis, The Sorcerer’s Sorrow, Italy, Avant-garde Music, AV397 CD digipak / LP (2020) The sombre artwork for this, Anachitis’ debut

19/11/2020 Ed Pinsent

Dark Staircase Functions

Fairly grim noise-rock-plod grinderoo from Kragrowargkomn on the album TMA (URBSOUNDS URB048) from Urbsounds…recorded in Slovakia and carrying sleeve design,

08/11/2020 nausika

VII: darkly monumental drone noise electronics terror for the pandemic age

KTL, VII, Editions Mego, Austria, EMEGO 287 cassette / vinyl (2020) For a project initially established to provide music for

27/10/2020 nausika

Proclamation ov the Black Suns: a very striking and solid debut album of 1990s’-era second-wave black metal with an experimental slant

Dkharmakhaoz, Proclamation ov the Black Suns, Germany, Iron Bonehead Productions, IBP 476 CD digipak / vinyl LP (2020) A very

18/10/2020 nausika

Sel de Pierre: powerful epic blackened depressive sludge doom with a hint of hope and optimism

Vous Autres, Sel de Pierre, France, Season of Mist Underground Activists, SUA117 CD digipak / 12″ vinyl LP (2020) Not

17/10/2020 nausika

Eternity of Shaog: deranged blackened death Lovecraftian demonic possession par excellence

Esoctrilihum, Eternity of Shaog, Italy, I, Voidhanger Records, IVR130 double LP / CD (2020) MAD FRENCH BLACK METAL ACT ALERT!

30/09/2020 nausika

Timewheel: primeval forces of nature and time, once worshipped as gods, calling to listeners in atmospheric black metal debut

Gloosh, Timewheel, Russia, Slowsnow Records, no catalogue number, cassette / Russia, Casus Belli Musica, CBM 77 vinyl LP / Germany,

19/09/2020 nausika

Kryptograf (self-titled): psychedelic doom metal debut plays safe with Sabbath-worshipping pop songs

Kryptograf, self-titled, Norway, Apollon Records, AP072 CD, LP (2020) Proof positive that anything anyone can do, the Norwegians can do

05/08/2020 nausika

A new solo atmospheric black / funereal doom metal protagonist’s debut explores alienation and death as creation in “Act I: The Protagonist”

Eyeless In Gaza, Act I: The Protagonist, Russia, Solitude Productions, SP. 152-20 CD digipak (2020) I must admit I had