Circle of Ouroborus, The Lost Entrance of the Just, Handmade Birds Records, HB-020 (vinyl release 2012, CD release 2013) Originally
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Abrahadabra: 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 readingNecheshirion: intense all-out blackened death metal attack
Gevurah, Necheshirion, Profound Lore Records, CD PFL-116 (2013) For a genre famously dismissive of standard organised religion in all its
Continue readingZombie Skin: black metal kiddie pop debut on mainstream talent television show
Aaralyn and Izzy, Zombie Skin, America’s Got Talent auditions (Season 8, Episode 4), New York, recorded 25 June 2013 Waaal,
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I think we last heard from Neil Campbell / Astral Social Club as one half of Iibiis Rooge, a duo
Continue readingGrievous Bodily Charm: a patchwork of hooky tunes that manage to be dull
Mr Vast, Grievous Bodily Charm, Spezialmaterial Records, CD (2013) A kooky retro-Eighties Eurodisco lounge lizard recording this promised to be
Continue readingA View that won’t Change: hard-rocking melodic proposition with mood music and ambient surprises
Vaquez, A View that won’t Change, self-released CD (2012) The work of one man, Andrew Phillips, but sounding much like
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Ember Schrag The Sewing Room USA SINGLE GIRL MARRIED GIRL SGMG25 / EDIBLE ONION EO-016 CD (2012) Lavishly presented CD
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The Pickle Factory Our Anthems GERMANY TWISTED KNISTER KNACK 003 LP (2011) In the 1990s Scott Foust and Karla Borecky
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Thought Forms are the trio of Romijn, Dhariwal and Metcalfe, playing a delicious form of acoustic trance music on their
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