Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum Sutcliffe No More? Time to get with the program if you still haven’t heard: seminal UK power electronics outfit Sutcliffe Jugend called it a day in 2019, and after a short stint as Slaves No More, … Continue reading SUTCLIFFE NO MORE: Cute
Release year: 2024Label: Steinklang Industries On their follow-up to 2021’s Rottenverse (reviewed here), German Bresthaft are simply more. More vicious, more loud, more noisy, more sadistic. More. So no point to beat around the bush. I’m going to spoil the … Continue reading BRESTHAFT: Termination Transmission
BRANDKOMMANDO: Jugoslavija 1941-1945 Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum The tricky thing with music such as power electronics is that often its hard to get a grasp on the thematics. And often, when you do, it’s hard to know the angle. Are … Continue reading An ode to Yugoslavia
GENETIC TRANSMISSION: Offals Of Emotions Release year: 2004/2023Label: Die Schöne Blumen Musik Werk/Zoharum This is where I admit my ignorance. Polish one man project Genetic Transmission and its sole member Tomasz Twardawa were what could be called notables in the … Continue reading Offals from the Genetic Transmission archives
HARMONY OF STRUGGLE: Brutal Aesthetics Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum One thing I’ve always wondered about are individuals with several projects within the same genre. What’s the reason, the point? OK, if they are stylistically drastically different from each other, then … Continue reading Brutal harmony
LUGOLA: The Truth Penetrates Your Mouth Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum It’s honestly a bit tough to write about power electronics from time to time. Especially in the case of an act like Lugola and their second album The Truth Penetrates … Continue reading Lugola penetrates your mouth
ARUM LILIES: Subsurface Aquifers Release year: 2023Label: Death Continues Records From the very onset, there’s something delightfully warped and just ever so slightly twisted about Australian Arum Lilies’ second album Subsurface Aquifers. From the covers and packaging to the music … Continue reading Subsurface lilies
CDG NOIR: Static Momentum Release year: 2023Label: self-released I’ll level with ya. When it comes to the harsher end of the industrial/post-industrial spectrum, my preferred style is without doubt power electronics. Typically, it’s got a bit more structure and internal … Continue reading Monuments to static momentum
AMPSCENT: Ampscent Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum …It smells like a bad pun. And indeed, I do think this is a new low for the bad puns we are wont to use here at Only Death Is Real. But you’ll just … Continue reading I love the smell of amps in the morning…
LÄJÄ ÄIJÄLÄ AND ALBERT WITCHFINDER: Triumph & Ordeal Release year: 2023Label: Svart Records When speaking of legends within Finnish extreme music, they don’t come much more legendary than Läjä Äijälä. Vocalist and band leader of hardcore pioneers Terveet Kädet (whose … Continue reading Through ordeals to triumph?
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