THE SUSPENDED APPARITION: It’s Sealed Inside The Church Release year: 2023Label: Misantropia Records My real introduction to all kinds of industrial and post-industrial music was some twenty-odd years ago, in the early noughties, in the form of dark ambient music. … Continue reading Apparitions inside the church
TERVEET KÄDET: Kaikki kaikkia vastaan Release year: 2023Label: Svart Records Terveet Kädet should need no introductions. But because this intro would be awfully short without it, we’ll do one anyway. So, Terveet Kädet are more than legends within hardcore and … Continue reading Everyone’s war on everyone
CROWN COURT: Heavy Manners Release year: 2023Label: Randale Records When did Crown Court become this big? I remember when their first album Capital Offence came out in 2016: it was well received, but not to any great amount of hoopla. … Continue reading Heavy handed manners
GOVERNMENT ALPHA: Mind-Altering Substance Release year: 2023Label: Steinklang Industries Steinklang’s most recent batch of releases included a couple of pretty major names within the industrial/noise field. Maurizio Bianchi, whose newest album Geni-Z we recently reviewed (here) is of course a … Continue reading Mind alterations a’la Government Alpha
SALEM ALUMNI: Black Dawn Release year: 2022Label: S’laughter Visions Once more unto the breach! Continuing on our write-up’s of various S’laughter Visions releases we got our hands on recently, we now turn our attention towards Salem Alumni, a duo consisting … Continue reading Black dawns at Salem
MAURIZIO BIANCHI: Geni-Z Release year: 2023Label: Steinklang Industries Italian Maurizio Bianchi is right there at the genesis of the industrial music scene. He released his first tapes already in the 70’s, had releases out on Come Org. and Sterile Records, … Continue reading Maurizio Bianchi and the DNA of industrial music
DIVISION S: Something To Fuck And Lose Release year: 2023Label: Steinklang Industries “Weird and alcoholic music since 2004”, proclaims a text on the covers of this album. And that’s pretty much a perfect description of the weirdness that is Division … Continue reading Fuck and lose with Division S
DARK AWAKE: Abaris Hyperboreios Release year: 2023Label: Steinklang Industries If you’d go by what artists are mentioned in various social media groups and forums, you’d think neofolk and martial industrial basically consists of Death In June, Arditi, Blood Axis, Forseti, … Continue reading Hyperborean awakening
DOC GRUESOME & EJ PROPHET: Four Horns Release year: 2022Label: S’laughter Visions We continue to pick apart the haul of somewhat recent Cerberus Clique/S’laughter Visions releases I got my filthy paws on a while ago. On this album, Doc Gruesome, … Continue reading Prophetic gruesome horns
TURTUMUS: Jälleenheräävä viha Release year: 2023Label: Misantropia Records Ever since the mid-noughties or so, Finnish black metal has been a pretty dominant and influential thing in the underground. The so-called Finnish sound, a combination of melancholic melodies and uncompromising rawness, … Continue reading From numbness to hate
Only Death Is Real 