Ensemble Pearl, self-titled, Drag City, DC544CD (2013) Led by Stephen O’Malley and featuring Michio Kurihara, Atsuo of Boris and William
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Empty Worlds
Four cassettes from the Swedish Beläten label sent to us by Thomas Martin Ekelund, who may also be the label
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Fukushima! (PRESQU’ILE RECORDS PSQ004-2) is a compilation themed on the Japanese nuclear disaster of 2011, caused by an earthquake and
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UK marginalista Hari Hardman‘s cleverness consists of stating his themes in short bursts of electronic drone-noises that stimulate the mind
Continue readingFistula: a complex and temperamental sound beast of many moods
Sujo and Sun Hammer, Fistula, Inam Records, CD 107 (2012) “Fistula” is a medical term describing a passage between two
Continue readingRegnum Saturni: flowing, raging, hypnotic black metal noise intensity
Fell Voices, Regnum Saturni, Gilead Media, 2xLP RELIC45 (2013) Fell Voices is a black metal band based in Santa Cruz
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Koji Asano remains as productive and as enigmatic as ever. This Japanese emperor of distorted drone released Travel Coupons (SOLSTICE
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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
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From Göteborg in Sweden [1. Also the home of Fang Bomb Records, our favourite label of angsty and grating Swedish
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