Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum The thing with abstract music is… well, that it’s abstract. I suppose this sounds like a redundant statement, but bear with me a moment. The thing with abstraction is that, essentially, it easily becomes shapeless and … Continue reading ULESA: II
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum You all know that reviews are totally, 100% subjective, right? Well, notwithstanding that technical errors in production and musicianship can be objectively critiqued, e.g. if there are flaws in reproduction or performance; but apart from that, whether … Continue reading BRUME: Syncronicity & Wandering Current
Year: 2024Label: Steinklang Industries Three out of three, when it comes to Steinklang Industries’ most recent batch of tapes. And this tape is by far the most challenging to tackle. Whereas both Kontakt Service (here) and Vologne (here) were pretty … Continue reading NAD EVROPA: :Pax:
Year: 2024Label: Fluttering Dragon Talk about a throwback. 63 Days was originally a series of six 7″ records released between 2004 and 2006 on the Fluttering Dragon label. Featured were significant martial industrial acts of the era, such as Krepulec, … Continue reading V/A: 63 Days
Release year: 2024Label: self-released The Second World War and submarines. My first association is, and always will be, the monumental cinematic epic Das Boot, one of the most gripping and intense movies ever made. Klaus Doldinger’s brilliant soundtrack has a … Continue reading TUILERIES: The Iron Coffin
Release year: 2019/2024Label: Amek/Zoharum Polish label Zoharum continue their praxis of re-releasing obscure and sold-out material. This time around it’s Greek Conjecture’s 2019 album V, augmented with tracks from related EP ∫V, on the fifth anniversary of the original album’s … Continue reading CONJECTURE: V
Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum Sutcliffe No More? Time to get with the program if you still haven’t heard: seminal UK power electronics outfit Sutcliffe Jugend called it a day in 2019, and after a short stint as Slaves No More, … Continue reading SUTCLIFFE NO MORE: Cute
Release year: 1995/2024Label: Steinklang Industries/Aube Et Crépuscule This is a bit of a tricky release to review. You see, what we have on hand is a re-release of French Dawn & Dusk Entwined’s very first recordings, originally released as two … Continue reading DAWN & DUSK ENTWINED: Myth, Faith, Belief
Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum This is another one of those tricky Zoharum releases to review. Not so much because of the audial contents themselves, but because of the nature of this release. You see, Before And After Silence was recorded … Continue reading NIMH: Before And After Silence
Release year: 2024Label: Steinklang Industries A couple of years back, we took a stab at pulling apart and reviewing Belgian In Search Of Death’s previous release, simply titled II (see here). It contained material recorded in the early noughties, recently … Continue reading IN SEARCH OF DEATH: I
Only Death Is Real 