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
Release year: 2024Label: Ambirial Mvsic Productions/Misantropia Records According to a statement included in the booklet of this album, Enter The Seasonal Ritual is, and I quote, “more a soundtrack to an unmade folk horror film rather than a conventional album.” … Continue reading THE CULT OF SUNLIGHT: Enter The Seasonal Ritual
Release year: 2024Label: In Illo Tempore/Gladivs Records To me, neofolk has always been a very European form of music. I say this without any kind of prejudice or bias; just like I’ve always considered blues and country to be thoroughly … Continue reading SUN VESSEL: A Seed Fallen To Earth
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
Only Death Is Real 