Year: 2025Label: Zoharum From Polish Zoharum’s latest batch of releases, this is simultaneously the easiest and the hardest to review. I’ve actually been sitting on this for a couple of days, mulling things over and trying to find an angle. … Continue reading KRISTOFFER OUSTAD: Magnor
Year: 202?Label: Steinklang Industries French Vologne’s debut tape, also on Steinklang (review), explored themes of unusual, dysfunctional minds and the deep recesses of the human psyche. As can be deduced from the title of this second tape, Vologne continue down … Continue reading VOLOGNE: Lost Illusions Turned Into Black Rage
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Belgian Dirk Serries is back with another album under his own name. Known perhaps best for his work with Vidna Obmana, the prolific musician has worked under many monikers throughout his long career. As Dirk Serries, he … Continue reading DIRK SERRIES: Zonal Disturbances III
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Here’s an album I wanted to like from the moment I set my eyes on its cover. There’s something in the combination of this slightly blurry, beautiful picture of nature and the name of the album that’s … Continue reading MOLJEBKA PVLSE: An Expression Of A Poetry That Was Lost
Year: 2023Label: self-released I suppose you could say US act Maligna Cerebra play with an open hand. The project’s name translates to “malignant brain”, the name of this EP length release to “deathly pallor.” These, and the cover image of … Continue reading MALIGNA CEREBRA: Pallor Mortis
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)
Only Death Is Real 