Year: 2025Label: self-released (distribution via Steinklang Industries) This album has been a long time in the making. multinational H.E.R.R.’s ambitious album Vondel’s Lucifer – First Movement was released way back in 2006. As implied by the name, it was not … Continue reading H.E.R.R.: Vondel’s Lucifer – Second Movement
Year: 2025Label: Steinklang Industries In their almost 20 year long recording career, Dark Awake have been nothing if not prolific. Discogs lists 16 full length albums and half a dozen of shorter releases, which translates into way more than one … Continue reading DARK AWAKE: Dämmerung
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
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: 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
Year: 2024Label: Steinklang Industries To be clear, this text is not a review. I can’t well enough review my own album, can I? Instead, this is a text exploring some of the themes and concepts of the album, presenting an … Continue reading DIEUX DES CIMETIÈRES: Säkeitä esoteerisesta Euroopasta
Year: 2024Label: Steinklang Industries French Regard Extreme are back with another slab of their medieval neoclassical – or call it what you want – following 2021’s Ars Veterum (reviewed here) and 2022’s compilation of reworked older tracks, Legacy (reviewed here). … Continue reading REGARD EXTREME: Eco Solemnis
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: 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
DARK AWAKE: Abaris Hyperboreios Release year: 2023Label: Steinklang Industries If you’d go by what artists are mentioned in various social media groups and forums, you’d think neofolk and martial industrial basically consists of Death In June, Arditi, Blood Axis, Forseti, … Continue reading Hyperborean awakening
Only Death Is Real 