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
Year: 2025Label: Dunkelheit Produktionen We’ve reviewed a number of releases by Finnish experimental act Absolute Key (see here), and if there’s one thing we’ve come to expect is to not have expectations. Straddling an amorphous no man’s land between industrial, … Continue reading ABSOLUTE KEY: Ei meidän kotimme
ABSOLUTE KEY: Lauluja laaksoista Release year: 2023Label: Tampereen levyt My issue with music and artists labelled as “experimental” is that if the artist has an established sound, is it experimental anymore? Take for example various artists within post-industrial music: from … Continue reading Songs from the valleys of Nangijala
ABSOLUTE KEY: The Third Level Of Decay Release year: 2022Label: Signal Rex Previously, we reviewed Finnish one man act Absolute Key’s Sundust (here), calling its combination of industrial and black metal “an album of intriguingly twisted esoteric electronics”. The prolific … Continue reading Keys to the three levels of decay
ABSOLUTE KEY: Sundust Release year: 2022Label: Nekrogoat Heresy Productions Describing something as a mixture of industrial and black metal will most likely conjure up all kinds of rather disparate images in people’s minds. Some will think of machinized beats and … Continue reading Absolute keys to fire and dust
Only Death Is Real 