ESCUADRON DE LA MUERTE: Prototype 1900-2020
Year: 2026Label: Steinklang Industries This is a hard release to review. Francesco Hernandez, sole member of Mexican Escuadron De La Muerte, passed away untimely in late 2022, before finishing the album he was working on. The tracks he had time … Continue reading ESCUADRON DE LA MUERTE: Prototype 1900-2020
ODIR Newsletter #3: The mullings of May
April was a slow month for ODIR, as those who follow the site even semi-frequently will have noticed. Hence, no picks from ODIR activities during the last month this time around, but a slew of news from our ever-active friends. … Continue reading ODIR Newsletter #3: The mullings of May
INFINEXHUMA: Savagery Of The Celestial Forearm
Year: 2026Label: Steinklang Industries In the past year or so, I’ve been on a heavy Kenneth Grant trip (see here). I’ve been reading the nine books that constitute his so-called Typhonian Trilogies, which in Grant’s confusing, scarcely consistent and logical … Continue reading INFINEXHUMA: Savagery Of The Celestial Forearm
ŁUBIN: Cargo
Year: 2026Label: Zoharum The last time we covered Polish Łubin, we dealt with a conundrum of an album. Gaza (review) was simultaneously insufferable, intolerable and incredibly potent; an album one just couldn’t ignore, even if one didn’t like it. Suffice … Continue reading ŁUBIN: Cargo
ALTAR OF DESPAIR: Severance
Year: 2025Label: self-released Although Finnish Altar Of Despair have been at it for a while already, ever since 2018 in fact, to the best of my knowledge this is their first release in a physical format. The band, still unsigned, … Continue reading ALTAR OF DESPAIR: Severance
ANNIHILATUS: Exterminate
Year: 2026Label: Bestial Burst Finnish Annihilatus have a long history behind them, but not a very long discography. Since their inception in 1999, the group have released only three albums, a mini-album and some sundries. One obvious explanation might be … Continue reading ANNIHILATUS: Exterminate
ABSOLUTE KEY: Facets Of War
Year: 2026Label: New Approach Records The ever-amorphous, ever-unpredictable Absolute Key return with another album that sees them shift form. Experimentalism has always remained a core element of the Finnish one-man project, but within that loose context, they’ve explored a width … Continue reading ABSOLUTE KEY: Facets Of War
WIELORYB: God’s Final Breath
Year: 2026Label: Zoharum Where the previous Wieloryb album we reviewed – Ritual (here), also released on CD recently by Zoharum – was a massive affair, God’s Final Breath is much more accessible in just about every way. The least of … Continue reading WIELORYB: God’s Final Breath
POPSYSZE: Powięź
Year: 2026Label: Zoharum Once again, I am on the outer fringes of my musical expertise, and actually well beyond it. This is no uncommon occurrence when a new batch of promos from Polish Zoharum lands in my mailbox. Which, as … Continue reading POPSYSZE: Powięź
ODIR Newsletter #2: April Anomalies
Welcome to the second issue of the ODIR newsletter. I’ll take this soapbox to vent about something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. I’ve found it incredibly disheartening how even in the music underground people are increasingly embracing AI … Continue reading ODIR Newsletter #2: April Anomalies
Only Death Is Real 