Same Sex Dictator, Open the Coffin, Hanged Man Recordings, cassette HMR017 (2014) With a name like theirs, you’d expect this
Continue readingTag: doom
Dunnock / Intergalactic Holocaust: from space, a message of raw noisy BM and chilling doom slasher guitar
Dunnock / Intergalactic Holocaust, self-titled, Temptations of Resonance, CD (2014) From the far extremes of the cosmos arrives this missive
Continue reading
Glass Cathedrals: mix of sludge doom, alt-rock and post-metal describing disillusion and disappointment
The Mire, Glass Cathedrals, self-released CD Digipak (February 2014) First off, I should say there are two English bands with
Continue reading
Regarde Les Hommes Tomber / self-titled: following the fall of humanity in BM doom sludge fusion
Regarde Les Hommes Tomber, self-titled, Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions, CD AO09 (2013) With a sonorous name like Regarde Les
Continue readingSoused: dark lullabies and musings on extreme human behaviour set to minimalist drone rumble
Scott Walker and SunnO))), Soused, 4AD, CAD 3428CD (2014) If some readers here don’t like falsetto singers, the recent Scott Walker
Continue reading
The Kebab of Hate
Got another tape by the feral Cardiff combo Bear-Man, who we last heard with their self-titled 2010 release, a great
Continue reading
Form Destroyer: a techno-industrial ride into hells of despair
Auditor, Form Destroyer, Annihilvs, CD APEX2014-04 (2014) We actually have met the man behind Auditor before: he’s the fellow behind
Continue reading
From Kether to Malkuth
T’ien Lai Da’at POLAND MONOTYPE RECORDS MONO071 / MILIEU L’ACÉPHALE MA10 CD (2013) The dull glow coming off this exotic
Continue reading
Lithotome (self-titled): diving into a sick and deranged cosmos of reptilian evil
Lithotome, self-titled, Fall of Nature Records, CD (2013) From start to finish, the music on this self-titled debut album is
Continue reading
Skáphe (self-titled): powerfully hellish ambient BM psychedelia
Skáphe, self-titled, Fallen Empire Records, cassette (2014) “Skáphe”, a Greek word meaning hollowed or scooped-out, seems an unusual name for
Continue reading