Year: 2026Label: Zoharum Rapoon are one of those hyper-productive projects who have so many albums out it’s next to impossible to form a comprehensive overview of their discography. Especially considering the discography is ever expanding: this year alone, the one-man … Continue reading RAPOON: Goodbye To Dreams Of Space
Year: 2026Label: Zoharum Here’s something I hadn’t noticed about Brandkommando before: ever since their 2024 album Soviet Terror In Poland, each of their albums has had four tracks clocking in at ten minutes almost on the dot. I don’t know … Continue reading BRANDKOMMANDO: 1968
Year: 2026Label: Zoharum You know it as soon as you look at the cover: we’re entering weird territory once again. But – how else? This is Zoharum we’re talking about, a label who specializes in the weird and unpredictable! The … Continue reading MACIEK SZYMCZUK: Gandobendy
Year: 2026Label: PED Psychobilly in Finland has always been a weird subculture in how often it’s barely visible, but still surprisingly big and active. It is rarely featured in music media, and when it is, it’s often somewhat derisively. And … Continue reading BROOMHILL RUNAWAYS: Straightjacket Psycho N Roll
Year: 2026Label: Zoharum Last time we crossed paths with Belgian Hybryds (In The Wake Of The Witch, reviewed here), they were on a somewhat more mystical and even mythological trip. Their newest outing sees Hybryds move into a much more … Continue reading HYBRYDS: 7even Deadly Sins
Year: 2026Label: Long Live Evil With certain labels, you know what to expect. This seems to be especially true within horrorcore rap, where a label is often more than just an entity putting out releases. They have a certain aesthetic … Continue reading MALAKEYE: And The Fallen Choir
Year: 2026Label: Western Star Records When I recently interviewed Western Star owner Alan Wilson for Finnish rockin’ magazine Big Beat about his new psychobilly project The Coal Dust Cowboys (review here), we talked about songwriting and influences. He mentioned that … Continue reading THE KINGS OF OUTER SPACE: The Things That Make Us Strange
Year: 2026Label: Western Star Records As the old saying goes: don’t fix what ain’t broke. German Dukes Of Tijuana certainly hold this to heart, considering their style of psycho/neobilly doesn’t stray from some very well trod paths. But, like they … Continue reading DUKES OF TIJUANA: Scary Mary
As summer is well and truly starting to give way to autumn, I reflect upon a strange coincidence. Already for years, autumn has been a time of spiritual reinvigoration for me, and a time of attunement to a more esoteric … Continue reading ODIR Newsletter #7: October oddities
Year: 2026Label: In Illo Tempore/Gladivs Records This is an album I’ve been sitting on for quite a while. Despite its seeming simplicity, Dawn Of The Fall is one of those albums it’s been pretty hard to put thoughts to paper … Continue reading EÔS: Dawn Of The Fall
