FUNERAL VOMIT: Monumental Putrescence
Release year: 2023Label: Xtreem Music With a name like Funeral Vomit, there’s no need to guess what these Columbians are about. Oh yeah: death metal. And taking a look at the cover, it’s easy to pinpoint their stylistic trappings even … Continue reading FUNERAL VOMIT: Monumental Putrescence
Scorched earth burden
BURDEN: Scorched Earth Release year: 2023Label: Rock ‘n’ Roll Disgrace/Rebellion Records Tough guy hardcore is a term familiar to anyone into the harder edge of punk music. You know, bands from New York or some such singing about the reality … Continue reading Scorched earth burden
Sardonic barbarity
SARDONIC WITCHERY: Barbaric Evil Power Release year: 2024Label: War March Records/Nekrogoat Heresy Productions/Abyssal Productions/Aniquilacion Satanica Productions The promo sheet drops names such as Judas Iscariot, Celtic Frost, Darkthrone and Venom as references. Well, in the grand scale of things, all … Continue reading Sardonic barbarity
At the onset of oblivion
MOAN/DEAD FACTORY: Onset Of Oblivion/Abandoned Heritage Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum What do you get when you lump together two dark ambient artists and make them collaborate? I’m sure nobody answered the question with “dark ambient”, am I right? Yeah, dead … Continue reading At the onset of oblivion
Stay positive with friends
HIV+ & FRIENDS: Spanish Electronic Body Music Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum Now, here’s a release that truly wears its heart on it’s sleeve. It’s title tells exactly what it’s all about e.g., EBM from Spain. And the artist name – … Continue reading Stay positive with friends
From the Vaults #5: Technical Ecstasy
Black Sabbath’s Technical Ecstasy is a document of a band losing its way, lost in a maze of fame, success and above all: drugs. Already their previous album, 1975’s Sabotage started showing some serious cracks in the mirror, but on … Continue reading From the Vaults #5: Technical Ecstasy
Offals from the Genetic Transmission archives
GENETIC TRANSMISSION: Offals Of Emotions Release year: 2004/2023Label: Die Schöne Blumen Musik Werk/Zoharum This is where I admit my ignorance. Polish one man project Genetic Transmission and its sole member Tomasz Twardawa were what could be called notables in the … Continue reading Offals from the Genetic Transmission archives
Black bloc chronicles
BLOCCONERO: Cronache Release year: 2023Label: self-released The conceptual and ideological history and genealogy of industrial music is long, complex, self-contradictory and confusing. Ever since its inception, industrial has been dabbling in the entire spectrum of political expression, usually gravitating towards … Continue reading Black bloc chronicles
Brutal harmony
HARMONY OF STRUGGLE: Brutal Aesthetics Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum One thing I’ve always wondered about are individuals with several projects within the same genre. What’s the reason, the point? OK, if they are stylistically drastically different from each other, then … Continue reading Brutal harmony
Obsessing with Sect7
SECT7: Obsessiveness Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum I know nothing about techno. That’s one of the genres I’ve never had much of an interest in or liked very much. This matters because that’s exactly what Polish Sect7 are: techno. But let’s … Continue reading Obsessing with Sect7
Only Death Is Real 