ÄÄNIPÄÄ, Through A Pre-Memory, Editions Mego, CD 175 (2013) On their own and with other collaborations, Mika Vainio and Stephen
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Body Horror: a brooding work of heavy industrial metal dub and ambient dronescapes
Iron Forest, Body Horror, Crucial Blast, CD 020 (2013) Iron Forest is a fairly new experimental music project by US
Continue readingWhat was Once there is Now Gone: desert-Western blackened sludge doom packed into tiny CD-R
Bird of Omen, What was Once there is Now Gone, Hand Hewn Timbre, 3″ CD-R (2013) Bird of Omen is a
Continue readingDakhmandal: a solid slab of droning sludge doom occult psychedelia
Dark Buddha Rising, Dakhmandal, Svart Records, SVR206CD (2 x CD) (2013) Dark Buddha Rising: it’s an excellent name for a
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 readingClosing Chapters
Book Of Delusions (COLD SPRING RECORDS CSR166CD) is a sepulchral item which we’ve had here in the lobster pots since
Continue readingCold of Ages: a grand and epic black metal / doom fusion recording
Ash Borer, Cold of Ages, Profound Lore Records, CD (2012) Ash Borer’s second album could very well be their breakthrough
Continue readingWalking Woods
Composer Daniel Stearns freely owns up to the peculiar mental state of “dissociation”, which manifests itself as unusual occasions or
Continue readingMother: ambient raw black metal in a vast and ancient landscape of flat plains, dry heat and the threat of fire
Cicadan, Mother, US, Eternal Warfare, cassette (2013) Cicadan is a recent black metal act based in Cobram, located on the
Continue readingThe Grain: country music was never so massive or monumental as this homage to wheat fields
Slomo, The Grain, Trilithon, TRCD05 (2012) Here are two very stretched-out tracks of creeping, repetitive droning music that revolve around
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