BEHERIT: Live In Praha CZ
Year: 2025Label: World Breaking Records/Primitive Reaction If there’s one thing I didn’t predict for 2024, it was the comeback of Finnish black metal pioneers Beherit. But come back they did, and I got to witness them live twice last year. … Continue reading BEHERIT: Live In Praha CZ
VESPER KENNINGS: Eldritch Winter – A Novenary Of Hiemal Contemplations
Year: 2024Label: self-released Arriving at Finnish Vesper Kenning’s third full-length album which, according to the band, concludes the “Terrestrial vortex trilogy”, a grander picture starts to emerge. The group remain as enigmatic as ever, perhaps even more so, but the … Continue reading VESPER KENNINGS: Eldritch Winter – A Novenary Of Hiemal Contemplations
OPOWIEŚĆ: Podróż
Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum/Bat-Cave Productions Wrapping up our delve into Zoharum’s latest batch of promos, as the last of the litter we have Polish Opowieść’s second album Podróż. The project is elsewhere described as experimental post punk, which is quite … Continue reading OPOWIEŚĆ: Podróż
DÜSSELDORF: Bunker Musick
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum Apparently, and according to the promo sheet, Bunker Musick is a collaboration between the Polish project and Leander Rönick of German Elektrokraft. Being quite unfamiliar with both prior to this, I won’t venture any guesses as to … Continue reading DÜSSELDORF: Bunker Musick
VIDNA OBMANA: Twilight Of Perception Redux: Volume One 1990-1998
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum Oh no, another one of Zoharum’s extensive – to the point of being excessive! – ambient anthologies! This was my first thought upon getting my hands on this 3 CD compilation, with the Polish label’s recent Rapoon … Continue reading VIDNA OBMANA: Twilight Of Perception Redux: Volume One 1990-1998
ESCAPE FROM WARSAW: Transit/The Specter Of War
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum “Lo fi distorted electronic beat” the album cover itself helpfully describes Polish Escape From Warsaw’s – a solo project of one Karol Su/Ka – album Transit/The Specter Of War. That saves us a lot of trouble! It … Continue reading ESCAPE FROM WARSAW: Transit/The Specter Of War
JARL: Receptor Radiation
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum Swedish Jarl is another of those hyper-productive artists, whose discography is extensive to say the least. In about 25 years, the project has released, according to Discogs, 37 albums and a few other things, resulting in a … Continue reading JARL: Receptor Radiation
SCITALIS: Maledictum
Year: 2025Label: Vendetta Records The scitalis was, apparently, a mythical serpent of antiquity with so amazing markings on its back that it could stun whoever saw it. I presume the serpent would then proceed to make lunch of those such … Continue reading SCITALIS: Maledictum
ALLES: Now
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum And we’re back at it again. Another Zoharum release, another release entirely in Polish; in other words, yet another time we’ve not the faintest idea what the album we’re reviewing is all about. Argh, it’s Galaktyka Mięsa … Continue reading ALLES: Now
GALAKTYKA MIĘSA: Lejek Bólu
Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum/Ubocze Records Eh, talk about a tough album to review. Not only is it another piece of weirdness from our friends at Zoharum, it’s also another album entirely in Polish. And apparently something of a concept album … Continue reading GALAKTYKA MIĘSA: Lejek Bólu
Only Death Is Real 