Ambiguity as the heart of martial industrial
Martial industrial as a genre has always, from the onset, been controversial. Neofolk too, to an extreme extent. However, in many ways, martial industrial is a far more niché genre than neofolk; the latter has throughout the years both conceptually … Continue reading Ambiguity as the heart of martial industrial
LORNA SHORE: I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me
Year: 2025Label: Century Media US deathcore act Lorna Shore have truly been the talk of the day for the past couple of years already. Seems like nobody into hard, heavy and extreme music is without an opinion of them. Just … Continue reading LORNA SHORE: I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me
THE CHAMBERLAIN: Draconian Magick
Year: 2025Label: Out Of The Dungeon Finnish The Chamberlain are a band with a definite vision for their music. It’s pretty singular idea, but not too constrictive. At least the Finns don’t run out on ideas on this, their debut. … Continue reading THE CHAMBERLAIN: Draconian Magick
KAELTE: Bilder Aus Asche Und Blut
Year: 2025Label: self-released German neofolk duo Kaelte are back at it again. They remain more or less true to their style in every respect, from the policy of self-releasing their albums to the style of neofolk they perform. In terms … Continue reading KAELTE: Bilder Aus Asche Und Blut
Observations from in-between with Vesper Kennings
For those who’ve been following our site for a while, the name Vesper Kennings might ring a bell. This eccentric Finnish outfit released their first demo in 2019, and have since then released three albums (the so-called Terrestrial Vortices trilogy) … Continue reading Observations from in-between with Vesper Kennings
TEITANBLOOD: From The Visceral Abyss
Year: 2025Label: Norma Evangelium Diaboli It’s been quite a while since we last heard from Spanish Teitanblood. Their previous album was 2019’s The Baneful Choir (reviewed here); since then, it’s been awfully quiet. Luckily, however, it was not the quiet … Continue reading TEITANBLOOD: From The Visceral Abyss
CELESTIAL SILENCE: Silent Calls From The Other Side
Year: 2025Label: Zazen Sounds/Monastyr Records/Forbidden Keep Records Those who’ve been following this site for a while might have realized that my tastes in black metal lean in a very specific direction. If it’s knuckleheadedly, primitively and stubbornly bestial; if it … Continue reading CELESTIAL SILENCE: Silent Calls From The Other Side
INSANE CLOWN POSSE: The Naught
Year: 2025Label: Psychopathic Records It was already some time ago that US horrorcore legends Insane Clown Posse announced their next joker’s card album, but it took until this summer for the album to finally materialize. The Naught was officially released … Continue reading INSANE CLOWN POSSE: The Naught
VESPER KENNINGS: Poacher Songs For The Bonewhite Bailiff
Year: 2025Label: self-released After their rather ambitious album cycle known as the Terrestrial Vortex Trilogy (Songs Of Verdant Bone, Wandering Suns And Harvest Moons and Eldritch Winter), Finnish Vesper Kennings grace us with what is quite easy to see as … Continue reading VESPER KENNINGS: Poacher Songs For The Bonewhite Bailiff
ALLERSEELEN: Toteninsel
Year: 2024Label: Aorta Austrian Allerseelen are one of those enigmatic and perplexing artists, who are incredibly difficult to pin down into any one genre or form of expression. Even when their albums retain a certain stylistic approach, it is next … Continue reading ALLERSEELEN: Toteninsel
Only Death Is Real 