Year: 2026Label: Zoharum Do you ever get migraines or really bad headaches? Do you ever feel a pain in your head that feels like someone inside is drilling your skull and brains with a power drill? A kind of jarring … Continue reading DYSTOPIAN CONTROL: Nothing Changes The Narrative
Year: 2026Label: Zoharum Here’s something I hadn’t noticed about Brandkommando before: ever since their 2024 album Soviet Terror In Poland, each of their albums has had four tracks clocking in at ten minutes almost on the dot. I don’t know … Continue reading BRANDKOMMANDO: 1968
Year: 2026Label: Impulsy Stetoskopu In the beginning of this year I published an essay titled Metaphysics matter (here). In it, I discussed the importance of a less reactive, more contemplative, metaphysical and philosophical approach to writing about music. Polish Ars … Continue reading ARS SONITUS: Transfuturist Bruitism Manifesto
Year: 2026Label: Steinklang Industries This is a hard release to review. Francesco Hernandez, sole member of Mexican Escuadron De La Muerte, passed away untimely in late 2022, before finishing the album he was working on. The tracks he had time … Continue reading ESCUADRON DE LA MUERTE: Prototype 1900-2020
Year: 2026Label: New Approach Records The ever-amorphous, ever-unpredictable Absolute Key return with another album that sees them shift form. Experimentalism has always remained a core element of the Finnish one-man project, but within that loose context, they’ve explored a width … Continue reading ABSOLUTE KEY: Facets Of War
I’ve no problem to admit that I’m a bit of a “noise tourist.” I don’t know a whole lot of people in the scene, I don’t rush out to buy every single new tape drop from hot labels (and no … Continue reading From the Vaults #21: What’s Left?
Year: 202?Label: Steinklang Industries French Vologne’s debut tape, also on Steinklang (review), explored themes of unusual, dysfunctional minds and the deep recesses of the human psyche. As can be deduced from the title of this second tape, Vologne continue down … Continue reading VOLOGNE: Lost Illusions Turned Into Black Rage
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum This here’s a weird album. Apparently, Stephen Āh Burroughs of Tunnels Of Āh fame got his hands on some recordings by Polish Genetic Transmission and was so impressed by them, he decided to do his own reinterpretation … Continue reading FRAG: Frag Deconstructed Genetic Transmission
Year: 2004/2025Label: Die Schöne Blumen Musik Werk/Zoharum Polish Zoharum delve once again into the Genetic Transmission archives to uncover yet another long out of print, obscure release from Tomasz Twardawa’s vast archives. This time, the Zoharum treatment gets 2004’s My … Continue reading GENETIC TRANSMISSION: My Inspiration Is You
Year: 2025Label: Freak Animal Often, when I’m reviewing noise, I’m thinking: why? What’s the point? Noise is… well, noise. And I don’t mean that in the sense that it’s all just mindless cacophony and who in their right mind listens … Continue reading RAUTAKYMI: Ei tästä maailmasta
