Year: 2022Label: self-released I actually have a tenuous link to Brazilian Lupusvir. We both appeared on the 2024 digital-only compilation Knife City. Beyond that, I didn’t know much about the one man project, except for a vague understanding that it … Continue reading LUPUSVIR: .//Passport_to_filg4ia
Year: 2025Label: Rune Serpent Europa All fans of 90’s British experimental/electronic/industrial music – sit up straight and pay attention! You there in the back, who ramble on about apocalyptic folk. And you there by the window, who can’t get enough … Continue reading KATHODOS: Parasomnia: Pavor Nocturnus
This past summer, we received the debut album Without Idols of Hungarian group Napsorvadás for review. From the first listen, we recognized it as something quite special. The album blends several currents of post-industrial music into a whole, and still … Continue reading Tracing The Spirit Of Apocalyptic Folk With Napsorvadás
Year: 2025Label: Far From… Records Oh, great! Another one of those albums. Those albums, which are such a potpourri of styles and genres, that trying to describe it is an exercise in futility. In other words, a reviewer’s dream. I … Continue reading NAPSORVADÁS: Without Idols
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum/FYC Records What’s in a name? That’s a question I think we’ve asked before. This time around, the answer is: surprisingly much. At least when it comes to the name of the album at hand. “Cinematic Rituals” is … Continue reading INSCISSORS: The Wordless God II (And Other Cinematic Rituals)
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Vidna Obmana, who we’ve covered a number of times, may have been laid to rest about 20 years ago, but the creative mind behind it gets no rest. Testament to this is the sheer volume of releases … Continue reading DIRK SERRIES: Zonal Disturbances II
Year: 2025Label: Steinklang Industries In their almost 20 year long recording career, Dark Awake have been nothing if not prolific. Discogs lists 16 full length albums and half a dozen of shorter releases, which translates into way more than one … Continue reading DARK AWAKE: Dämmerung
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Talk about a massive album! Spread over two discs, In The Wake Of The Witch contains a hefty two and a half hours of music. At the same time it’s the long running Belgian project’s first album … Continue reading HYBRYDS: In The Wake Of The Witch
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum Indeed an appropriate name for Swiss B°Tong’s umpteenth album, {Mass}. The release, divided across two CD’s, has a running time of almost 1,5 hours, which is massive by any standards. And when the music is some kind … Continue reading B°TONG: {Mass}
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum “Sludge/doom metal with drone and dark ambient elements.” What kind of music does that make you think of? Me, I think of some kind of minimalistic, raw, borderline funeral doom experimentalism. Something that reeks of nightmares, terrors … Continue reading NOCHE OSCURA: Gardens
Only Death Is Real 