Year: 2026Label: In Illo Tempore/Gladivs Records Australian Sun Vessel have renewed themselves on each album. Where debut Etched In Eternity (2023) was a pretty typical fare with understated vocals and acoustic guitar, 2024’s A Seed Fallen To Earth (review) saw … Continue reading SUN VESSEL: Destruction’s New Battledress
If you lived in Finland and were getting into underground extreme metal, it is quite likely you encountered three compilation CD’s early on: BlackMetalliliitto, True Kings Of Norway and this, Talvisota. All three were usually found at reduced prices, were … Continue reading From the Vaults #26: Talvisota
As some of you may have noticed, I missed the August edition of the newsletter. To a large extent this was due to the Dieux Des Cimetières concert on August 1st in support of Beherit – preparing and rehearsing was … Continue reading ODIR Newsletter #6: September Slitherings
Year: 2026Label: Sun & Moon Records In a genre quite dominated by entirely synthesized instrumentation and stolen/borrowed sound sources such as classical music recordings, Hungarian Sturmast (who share members with Napsorvadás and Larrnakh, who we’ve covered before) are a pleasant … Continue reading STURMAST: Nos Ipsi
Year: 2001/2026Label: Caciocavallo/Zoharum These 3 CD compilations by Zoharum are daunting releases to review. Regardless of project, they usually present over three hours of experimental music to tackle; music, which even in more moderate portions is a lot to take … Continue reading RAPOON: Cold War – Drum ‘n’ Bass
Year: 2026Label: Steelwork Maschine It’s hard to even pretend to be objective about Danish Die Weisse Rose’s second album, released only 17 years after the debut A Martyrium Of White Roses. The debut is, after all, a monumental but oft … Continue reading DIE WEISSE ROSE: The Evenings And Other Songs About Sex, Violence And Nihilism
Year: 2026Label: Zoharum Zoharum continues their forays into the vast archives of Belgian ambient project Vidna Obmana to unearth more rarities and unreleased tracks. The third installment in the series, like the two before it, consists of three CD’s and … Continue reading VIDNA OBMANA: Twilight Of Perception Redux: Volume Three 1996-2006
Year: 2026Label: Zoharum Polish Zoharum’s latest batch contained surprisingly two albums made with predominantly very traditional rock instruments. The first was Kontagion’s I (review); the second is this, Polish Jude’s seventh album. That’s the beauty with Zoharum: you never know … Continue reading JUDE: Zakaz
Year: 2026Label: Misantropia Records/Ambirial Mvsic Productions Finnish dungeon synth act Waeltaja are nothing if not prolific. In under ten years the one man project has released 13 albums according to Discogs. This time around, the project outdid itself: two lengthy … Continue reading WAELTAJA: Omega Monolith
Year: 2026Label: Misantropia Records/Ambirial Mvsic Productions As I’ve said before, dungeon synth is a genre I’d like to like far more than I actually like. There’s something that appeals to me immensely on a conceptual level in dungeon synth as … Continue reading WAELTAJA: Centuries Of Sorrow
Only Death Is Real 