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
Year: 2026Label: Zoharum Swedish Jarl are at it again: another hefty piece of ambient, exploring the more minute details of the human body. The previous albums we’ve reviewed by them, Synapse Variation Report (here) and Receptor Radiation (here) also dealt … Continue reading JARL: Nerve Cell Threads Electronics
Year: 2026Label: Zoharum When mentioning industrial metal, my guess is that most people will think of bands such as Ministry, Rammstein and, I dunno, maybe Deathstars. Acts such as Godflesh seem to have vanished from the map of industrial metal … Continue reading KONTAGION: I
Year: 2020/2026Label: Transgredient Records/Zoharum Released originally in 2020 only on vinyl, Zoharum’s recent re-release of Monocube’s and Troum’s collaborative effort finally makes the album available on CD (and tape). This re-release features one track not available on the original, expanding … Continue reading MONOCUBE & TROUM: Contemplator Caeli
Year: 2026Label: Impulsy Stetoskopu In the beginning of this year I published an essay titled Metaphysics matter (here). In it, I discussed the importance of a less reactive, more contemplative, metaphysical and philosophical approach to writing about music. Polish Ars … Continue reading ARS SONITUS: Transfuturist Bruitism Manifesto
Year: 2026Label: Misantropia Records/Ambirial Mvsic Productions Like our text on Dieux Des Cimetières’ previous album, 2024’s Säkeitä esoteerisesta Euroopasta (here), this is not a review, but a text discussing the concept of the album its themes and its influences. After … Continue reading DIEUX DES CIMETIÈRES: Mercy & Severity
Year: 2026Label: De La Rocka Music Two years after the blistering debut album Nightmare Reborn (review here), Finnish De La Rocka return with a new single. As project mainman Panu De La Rocka discussed in the interview I did with … Continue reading DE LA ROCKA: The Vampire
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