Year: 2020Label: self-released We return to Brazilian Lupusvir’s eccentric sounds. Although in a somewhat backwards fashion: this is actually the one man project’s first release, and .//passport_to_filg4ia (review) their second. I don’t think it matters too much. Both releases are … Continue reading LUPUSVIR: .//repeated_grey_fields
Year: 2022Label: self-released I actually have a tenuous link to Brazilian Lupusvir. We both appeared on the 2024 digital-only compilation Knife City. Beyond that, I didn’t know much about the one man project, except for a vague understanding that it … Continue reading LUPUSVIR: .//Passport_to_filg4ia
Year: 2025Label: Rune Serpent Europa All fans of 90’s British experimental/electronic/industrial music – sit up straight and pay attention! You there in the back, who ramble on about apocalyptic folk. And you there by the window, who can’t get enough … Continue reading KATHODOS: Parasomnia: Pavor Nocturnus
This past summer, we received the debut album Without Idols of Hungarian group Napsorvadás for review. From the first listen, we recognized it as something quite special. The album blends several currents of post-industrial music into a whole, and still … Continue reading Tracing The Spirit Of Apocalyptic Folk With Napsorvadás
Martial industrial as a genre has always, from the onset, been controversial. Neofolk too, to an extreme extent. However, in many ways, martial industrial is a far more niché genre than neofolk; the latter has throughout the years both conceptually … Continue reading Ambiguity as the heart of martial industrial
Year: 2025Label: self-released German neofolk duo Kaelte are back at it again. They remain more or less true to their style in every respect, from the policy of self-releasing their albums to the style of neofolk they perform. In terms … Continue reading KAELTE: Bilder Aus Asche Und Blut
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: Aorta Austrian Allerseelen are one of those enigmatic and perplexing artists, who are incredibly difficult to pin down into any one genre or form of expression. Even when their albums retain a certain stylistic approach, it is next … Continue reading ALLERSEELEN: Toteninsel
Year: 2025Label: self-released With a name like this, there’s really only one genre Austrian Aufbruch Europa could play. And yes indeed, it is neofolk. No prizes for anyone who bet their money on that. It’s not like there’s exactly an … Continue reading AUFBRUCH EUROPA: Shining Hearts On Fields Of Sorrow
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