LUGOLA: The Truth Penetrates Your Mouth Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum It’s honestly a bit tough to write about power electronics from time to time. Especially in the case of an act like Lugola and their second album The Truth Penetrates … Continue reading Lugola penetrates your mouth
HATS & CAPS/EASTSIDE DOGS: Split Release year: 2023Label: KB Records Split releases can be annoying things. At the best of time, you receive almost an album’s worth of material not by one, but two bands. Then, a split release certainly … Continue reading Of hats, caps and dogs
VISION MASTER: Sceptre Release year: 2023Label: Gates Of Hell Records Nietzsche wrote about the concept of eternal return; the idea that things and phenomena will repeat in perpetuity – and of how one should overcome the fear of this. Now, … Continue reading Vision Master peering into the past
CHORE IA: Postscriptum/Neogolizmowa Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum/Antenna Non Grata Experimentalism is a tough nut. Sometimes you get it right, sometimes you don’t. Maybe, when it comes to experimental music, sometimes it’s up to the listener. At any rate, Polish Chore … Continue reading The past and present of Chore Ia
BLAZE YA DEAD HOMIE: Graveyard Greats 2 Release year: 2023Label: Majik Ninja Entertainment Detroit horrorcore gangsta Blaze Ya Dead Homie was once described by someone – possibly Violent J of Insane Clown Posse – as the third member of rap … Continue reading Blaze diggin’ the graves
ARDITI: Insignia Of The Sun Release year: 2020/2023Label: Blooddawn Productions Martial industrial stalwarts Arditi have been active on the release front this year: this is already their second release in 2023. However, unlike Emblem Of Victory (reviewed here), Insignia Of … Continue reading Arditi’s solar symbolism
RED PAINTED RED: That Was The Reason Why Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum British duo Red Painted Red are one of those groups who’re genuinely hard to pin down. That much is clear already from label Zoharum’s description of the album. … Continue reading Red reasons why
AJNA: Inevitable Mortality Release year: 2016/2023Label: Reverse Alignment/Zoharum Listening to US based act Ajna’s Inevitable Mortality, I find myself musing over what a funny genre of music dark ambient is. It’s entirely non-musical, usually extremely minimalist, with drawn-out pieces that … Continue reading Ajna’s inevitability
Do you remember the first CD you ever bought? Do you remember when it was? I certainly remember mine. It was Babylon Zoo’s The Boy With The X-Ray Eyes, in the summer of 1996. Our family had just bought our … Continue reading From the Vaults #4: Dehumanizer
ALLA XUL ELU & SUPER FAMOUS FUN TIME GUYS: Lost Lake Estates Release year: 2023Label: Long Live Evil It would appear that US horrorcore trio Alla Xul Elu have lately been doubling down on their own label Long Live Evil. … Continue reading Evil lives long in the Lost Lake Estates
Only Death Is Real 