XIPHOS: On Beheading The Thalassocratic Vipers Release year: 2022Label: Khthon OK, color me confused. What the Hell is this album about? The project takes its name, Xiphos, from an ancient one-handed sword, a secondary weapon used by the soldiers of … Continue reading Xiphos and the beheading of maritime serpents
GRIM: Magnolia’s Dream Release year: 2022Label: Steinklang Industries For people into noise, power electronics and the harsher side of experimental music, Japanese Grim should be a familiar name. The one-man project released a small body of work in the mid-to-late … Continue reading Magnolia’s grim dreams
IN SEARCH OF DEATH: II Release year: 2022Label: Steinklang Industries In the wide, amorphous and ambiguous field of all things industrial and post-industrial, it’s often a venture doomed to failure to attempt to pinpoint too exactly what niché an artist … Continue reading Searching for death
TREPANERINGSRITUALEN: Veil The World Release year: 2011/2015/2021Label: Cold Spring Records Back in 2008-2013, when Swedish ritual industrial entity Trepaneringsritualen started out and almost immediately started to make a name for themselves, I was in the heaviest harsh noise/power electronics phase … Continue reading Veil the world in ritual rust
NEOLITHIC NATION: Atavism Release year: 2021Label: Steinklang Industries Delving further into long-running industrial label Steinklang Industries‘ recent output, next up is what is apparently the debut release of Russian industrial noise unit Neolithic Nation. This is another interesting package offering … Continue reading Neolithic Atavism
ESCUADRON DE LA MUERTE: Bastion XXIII Release year: 2021Label: Steinklang Industries Mexican Escuadron De La Muerte’s – Spanish for Squadron Of Death, unless I am entirely mistaken – latest album is a confusing mixture of themes and conflicting aesthetics. In … Continue reading Satan, Lucifer, the light brigade and pink elephants
LUGOLA: You Are Not Special Release year: 2021Label: Steinklang Industries “You are not special!” chants Neithan, the sole person behind Lugola on the final track, the title track, of this album. The aggressive, hostile and simple to-the-point mantra is an … Continue reading Lugola’s parade of death
Only Death Is Real 