Year: 2025Label: Steinklang Industries The drink-friendly Italians are back at it. The cover artwork and the name of the album prove that there’s no paradigm shift here. Two glasses of red wine and a beautiful woman, and We Don’t Drink … Continue reading DIVISION S: We Don’t Drink Alone
Year: 2024Label: Napalm Records Fans of German alternative, dark and gothic tinged rock might be familiar with a band called Lord Of The Lost. I, not being a particular fan of such music, am not. But even so, Chris Harms … Continue reading CHRIS HARMS: 1980
If you’re from Finland or Sweden and paid attention to what was going on in popular music in the mid-90’s, you couldn’t escape Swedish folk pop duo Nordman. During the era of grunge, eurodance and gangsta rap, they were probably … Continue reading From the Vaults #12: Nordman
When someone my age listens to The Ink Spots, an all-black US vocal group who had their heyday in the 1940’s, one can relatively safely assume they are also a fan of the Fallout video game franchise. And yes indeed, … Continue reading From the Vaults #8: The Best Of The Ink Spots
RED PAINTED RED: That Was The Reason Why Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum British duo Red Painted Red are one of those groups who’re genuinely hard to pin down. That much is clear already from label Zoharum’s description of the album. … Continue reading Red reasons why
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
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
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
DIVISION S: Something To Drink & Smoke Release year: 2022Label: Steinklang Records Italian Division S – who unfortunately share the name with, and should not be confused with, an old RAC band from Sweden – seem to have an idée … Continue reading A little something to drink with Division S
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