Grim, Folk Songs for an Obscure Race, Haang Niap Records, CD HAANG-002 (2009) A weirdo industrial junk folk record, this
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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 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 readingMaru Sankaku Shikaku (Circle Triangle Square): long shamanistic rituals of free-form experimentation
Maru Sankaku Shikaku (Circle Triangle Square), self-titled, Bamboo BAM3CD7010 (2013) Long dormant artifacts from the halcyon days of Seventies Japanese
Continue readingShemonmuanay: a unique fusion of Ethiopian folk music / jazz and two generations of Western music technology
Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument, Shemonmuanay, New York, Awesome Tapes From Africa, CD ATFA 006 (2013) First released on
Continue readingA cornucopia of fusion black metal / psychedelia / horror-film soundtrack music on the Rhinocervs label
Rhinocervs, RH-08: Untitled 1 & 2 (2011); RH-07 (2011); RH-11 (2011); RH-12 (2012), RH-13 (2012) In early 2013, I stumbled
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 readingDrink My Tears: a brave, original and immersive experimental black metal recording
Lord Time, Drink My Tears, Universal Consciousness, cassette U-8-C 35 (2012) “Primitive psychic metal”, eh? – “Drink My Tears” certainly
Continue readingAzad Hind: a powerful raging black metal / psychedelia with an anti-colonialist stance
Dressed in Streams, Azad Hind, Colloquial Sound Records, cassette CSR 018 (2012) In recent months I’ve been alerted to a
Continue readingEternal Zio: free-ranging folk drone improv psychedelia weaves a strange spell
Eternal Zio, self-titled, Boring Machines BM043LP / Black Sweat Records BS003LP, LP (2012) Don’t let that label name Boring Machines
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