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
From the Vaults #18: The Complete Mother’s Best Recordings Plus!
This Hank Williams box set is absolutely one of the most extravagant items in our music collection. It’s a rather massive set containing 15 CD’s, one DVD, a hardcover book, a poster and a puzzle. Everything except the puzzle is … Continue reading From the Vaults #18: The Complete Mother’s Best Recordings Plus!
AUFBRUCH EUROPA: Shining Hearts On Fields Of Sorrow
Year: 2025Label: self-released With a name like this, there’s really only one genre Austrian Aufbruch Europa could play. And yes indeed, it is neofolk. No prizes for anyone who bet their money on that. It’s not like there’s exactly an … Continue reading AUFBRUCH EUROPA: Shining Hearts On Fields Of Sorrow
THE BRAINS: Crazy Monster
Year: 2025Label: Cleopatra Records The Brains are one of those mid-noughties bands who rode in on the rather surprising wave of popularity psychobilly enjoyed back then, thanks to bands like Nekromantix and Mad Sin and, in no small part, the … Continue reading THE BRAINS: Crazy Monster
DIVISION S: We Don’t Drink Alone
Year: 2025Label: Steinklang Industries The drink-friendly Italians are back at it. The cover artwork and the name of the album prove that there’s no paradigm shift here. Two glasses of red wine and a beautiful woman, and We Don’t Drink … Continue reading DIVISION S: We Don’t Drink Alone
THE ZIPHEADS: Rock ‘n’ Roll Renaissance
Year: 2025Label: Voodoo Canapé I quote UK act The Zipheads’ website for a description of their style: “The Zipheads play Rock’n’Roll infused with punk, taking influence from the founding fathers of the 1950s like Little Richard and Chuck Berry, via … Continue reading THE ZIPHEADS: Rock ‘n’ Roll Renaissance
PADDLECELL: Spooky Jones
Year: 2025Label: Trommelfell Records Uh oh. We are entering hostile waters now. German Paddlecell define their style as “horror ska and psychobilly.” I’m a big fan of ska, particularly original ska from the late 60’s and early 70’s, but when … Continue reading PADDLECELL: Spooky Jones
Only Death Is Real 