The journey that post-industrial folk/neofolk group Crooked Mouth has undertaken since their debut release in 2013 is fascinating to say the least. What started out as an acoustic solo side project to a black metal band has evolved to a … Continue reading The Fool’s Cosmic Journey: a discussion with Crooked Mouth
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Here’s a novel concept. Światłowód is half a (mini)album by Polish group ROD, half a compilation showcasing offshoot projects of ROD. In other words, a farewell and a hello at the same time, as ROD is apparently … Continue reading ROD/HANSOLLO/DN/RIP: Światłowód
For those who’ve been following our site for a while, the name Vesper Kennings might ring a bell. This eccentric Finnish outfit released their first demo in 2019, and have since then released three albums (the so-called Terrestrial Vortices trilogy) … Continue reading Observations from in-between with Vesper Kennings
Year: 2025Label: self-released After their rather ambitious album cycle known as the Terrestrial Vortex Trilogy (Songs Of Verdant Bone, Wandering Suns And Harvest Moons and Eldritch Winter), Finnish Vesper Kennings grace us with what is quite easy to see as … Continue reading VESPER KENNINGS: Poacher Songs For The Bonewhite Bailiff
Year: 2024Label: self-released Arriving at Finnish Vesper Kenning’s third full-length album which, according to the band, concludes the “Terrestrial vortex trilogy”, a grander picture starts to emerge. The group remain as enigmatic as ever, perhaps even more so, but the … Continue reading VESPER KENNINGS: Eldritch Winter – A Novenary Of Hiemal Contemplations
Year: 2024Label: Krypta Records Finnish The Carnival are true eccentrics within the realm of extreme/underground music. Granted, it’s no news to anyone that first wave black metal was heavily influenced by punk rock. And later on, plenty of crust acts … Continue reading THE CARNIVAL: Absoluuttinen syntymä
If you’re from Finland or Sweden and paid attention to what was going on in popular music in the mid-90’s, you couldn’t escape Swedish folk pop duo Nordman. During the era of grunge, eurodance and gangsta rap, they were probably … Continue reading From the Vaults #12: Nordman
Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum If you want weird, you got weird. Polish Królówczana Smuga’s sixth album is a veritable cornucopia of, well, just about everything. The label’s promo sheet mentions as influences and key elements keywords such as folklore, alternative, … Continue reading KRÓLÓWCZANA SMUGA: Konwulsanki
Release year: 2024Label: Ambirial Mvsic Productions/Misantropia Records According to a statement included in the booklet of this album, Enter The Seasonal Ritual is, and I quote, “more a soundtrack to an unmade folk horror film rather than a conventional album.” … Continue reading THE CULT OF SUNLIGHT: Enter The Seasonal Ritual
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
