Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Just one look at the cover, and you know: you’re in for some of Zoharum weirdness. And when the promo sheet discusses everything but the music, you can be certain of it. Just about the only thing … Continue reading ZENIAL: Foil Punk
Year: 2025Label: In Illo Tempore/Gladivs Records Taking their name from a short sword used by ancient Greeks, multinational Xiphos (not to be confused with the other Xiphos we’ve covered before) appropriately put their thematical focus on Ancient Greece. Though there … Continue reading XIPHOS: The Age Of Alexander
Year: 2025Label: Steinklang Industries Italian Whiterat don’t muck about on their newest tape release. From the very first second, the listener is bombarded with an unrelenting barrage of harsh, violent and extremely abrasive noise. And for the next 22 minutes, … Continue reading WHITERAT: Conglomerate Malaction
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum Apparently, and according to the promo sheet, Bunker Musick is a collaboration between the Polish project and Leander Rönick of German Elektrokraft. Being quite unfamiliar with both prior to this, I won’t venture any guesses as to … Continue reading DÜSSELDORF: Bunker Musick
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum “Lo fi distorted electronic beat” the album cover itself helpfully describes Polish Escape From Warsaw’s – a solo project of one Karol Su/Ka – album Transit/The Specter Of War. That saves us a lot of trouble! It … Continue reading ESCAPE FROM WARSAW: Transit/The Specter Of War
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum Swedish Jarl is another of those hyper-productive artists, whose discography is extensive to say the least. In about 25 years, the project has released, according to Discogs, 37 albums and a few other things, resulting in a … Continue reading JARL: Receptor Radiation
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum And we’re back at it again. Another Zoharum release, another release entirely in Polish; in other words, yet another time we’ve not the faintest idea what the album we’re reviewing is all about. Argh, it’s Galaktyka Mięsa … Continue reading ALLES: Now
Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum/Ubocze Records Eh, talk about a tough album to review. Not only is it another piece of weirdness from our friends at Zoharum, it’s also another album entirely in Polish. And apparently something of a concept album … Continue reading GALAKTYKA MIĘSA: Lejek Bólu
As most of you probably realize by now, 2024 is over and we’ve entered 2025. For those of you who haven’t, consider this a public service announcement. Anyhow, let’s take a look at some of the noteworthy releases of last … Continue reading A year in summation: 2024
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum This is one of those cases, where I’ll readily admit I am completely out of my depth. The label’s promo sheet throws around terms such as minimal, dub, post techno, industrial and experimental when describing this 20 … Continue reading NOR_POL: +
Only Death Is Real 