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
Release year: 1990/2024Label: ZNS Tapes/Zoharum The promo sheet for Polish Zoharum’s recent re-release of German Maeror Tri’s 1990 tape Ambient Dreams mentions that it was created entirely from sounds sourced from natural sources. No electronic sound sources were apparently used. … Continue reading MAEROR TRI: Ambient Dreams
Release Year: 2024Label: Zoharum Tunnels Of Āh are a dark ambient act who’ve been releasing material for a bit above ten years now, most of them via renowned UK label for dark, weird and experimental music Cold Spring. So whilst … Continue reading TUNNELS OF ĀH: The Charnel Working + Klesha File
Release year: 2024Label: Last Day Of The North Finnish Šamane are an act I’ve been following with some interest ever since their debut album Kaukana virtaa Eufrat (2019). The debut album was a bit of an uneven affair, combining elements … Continue reading ŠAMANE: Solstice
UHUSHUHU: Zvirat Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum And here we are again, with more of Polish label Zoharum’s recent ambient releases. As those of you who’ve read my reviews of Vidna Obmana’s (here) and The Stargazer’s Assistant’s (here) recent releases on … Continue reading Uhushuhu’s cosmic drones
Only Death Is Real 