Year: 2025Label: Steinklang Industries The drink-friendly Italians are back at it. The cover artwork and the name of the album prove that there’s no paradigm shift here. Two glasses of red wine and a beautiful woman, and We Don’t Drink … Continue reading DIVISION S: We Don’t Drink Alone
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Whilst at first the name Scrotum+N. might strike you as confounding, upon closer inspection it turns out to be quite informative. For, you see, this is a joint venture of Polish Scrotum and Italian N. Out of … Continue reading SCROTUM+N.: …Dead Sessions…
Year: 2025Label: Steinklang Industries First impressions can be deceiving. Especially in music, especially if you are somewhat knowledgeable in a genre. Sometimes it leads you to pin into place an artist or album very quickly. “Oh, this instantly brings to … Continue reading ALYA SERPENTIS: The Sky Falls Down
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: Comatose Music Uh oh, I wonder if we’re going to Facebook jail or at least quarantine because we use fuck in our URL and title? Italian Corpsefucking Art and their PR guy seem to be aware of this … Continue reading CORPSEFUCKING ART: Tomatized
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: 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
BLOCCONERO: Cronache Release year: 2023Label: self-released The conceptual and ideological history and genealogy of industrial music is long, complex, self-contradictory and confusing. Ever since its inception, industrial has been dabbling in the entire spectrum of political expression, usually gravitating towards … Continue reading Black bloc chronicles
SPIRITUAL FRONT: Rotten Roma Casino Release year: 2010/2023Label: Trisol/Prophecy/Auerbach Tonträger Italian Spiritual Front’s fourth studio album Rotten Roma Casino is a modern classic within neofolk – understood in its broadest sense – and still features prominently in the band’s live … Continue reading Spiritual Front and the decadence of Rome
SPIRITUAL FRONT: The Queen Is Not Dead Release year: 2023Label: Prophecy/Auerbach Tonträger Italian “nihilist suicide pop” artist Spiritual Front (let’s just call them neofolk for the sake of brevity and ignore their musical ill fit into the genre) have already … Continue reading Is the queen dead?
Only Death Is Real 