Year: 2025Label: Zoharum From Polish Zoharum’s latest batch of releases, this is simultaneously the easiest and the hardest to review. I’ve actually been sitting on this for a couple of days, mulling things over and trying to find an angle. … Continue reading KRISTOFFER OUSTAD: Magnor
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
Music, Martinis And Misanthropy must be one of the most gleefully provocative, offensive and irreverent, yet also relatable and fun albums ever. It’s enfant terrible Boyd Rice, joined by friends, at his prime at least as far as his humorously … Continue reading From the Vaults #20: Music, Martinis And Misanthropy
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Belgian Dirk Serries is back with another album under his own name. Known perhaps best for his work with Vidna Obmana, the prolific musician has worked under many monikers throughout his long career. As Dirk Serries, he … Continue reading DIRK SERRIES: Zonal Disturbances III
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Here’s an album I wanted to like from the moment I set my eyes on its cover. There’s something in the combination of this slightly blurry, beautiful picture of nature and the name of the album that’s … Continue reading MOLJEBKA PVLSE: An Expression Of A Poetry That Was Lost
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
Some time ago, an email in our promo folder caught our eye. It promised an album of experimental post-industrial electronics, dark ambience and tribal elements, and invoked names such as Current 93, Coil and Nurse With Wound. Of course we … Continue reading Stranger dreaming with Kathodos
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: Zoharum This is an intolerable album. No beating around the bush: I don’t like this album. It annoys and irritates me. It’s a frustrating listen. But it’s an album that won’t let you be. It’s an album that … Continue reading ŁUBIN: Gaza
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Zoharum is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you gonna get, as Forrest Gump once famously said. Well, he didn’t say that, but were he into writing about music and was on Zoharum’s promo … Continue reading HVAST: Chwasty Polskie
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