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
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
VESPER KENNINGS: Wandering Suns And Harvest Moons – A Torchlit Dream Cycle In Eight Parts Release year: 2023Label: self-released I’m sitting here with Finnish Vesper Kennings’ new album spread out before me, laughing at something I said in my review … Continue reading Kennings of the sun and of the moon
KAELTE: Aus tiefen Höhlen Release year: 2023Label: self-released It’s always nice when an artist takes something we say to heart. In our review of German Kaelte’s previous release, the EP Alle Teufel Sind Blutsbrüder (here), we requested the next release … Continue reading From Kaelte’s deep caves
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?
DIVISION S: Something To Fuck And Lose Release year: 2023Label: Steinklang Industries “Weird and alcoholic music since 2004”, proclaims a text on the covers of this album. And that’s pretty much a perfect description of the weirdness that is Division … Continue reading Fuck and lose with Division S
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
DERNIÈRE VOLONTÉ: Cristal Release year: 2022Label: Silences Et Grésillements French one-man project Dernière Volonté are one of those acts with a truly baffling musical trajectory. They started out in the 90’s with a couple of tapes of martial industrial which … Continue reading Crystalline last will
AFRICAN IMPERIAL WIZARD: Nzinga Mbande Release year: 2022Label: Tesco Organisation So… according to the descriptions found online, African Imperial Wizard are a group based in Luanda, Angola, and were formed the day after the ceasefire was signed which ended the … Continue reading African industrial wizards
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