KAARNA: Väkipyssyvärssyjä ja kulkutautitarinoita Release year: 2021Label: Anima Arctica Even in the small and quite esoteric Finnish post-industrial neofolk scene, one-man entity Kaarna is a peculiarity. Known for his involvement in Tervahäät (among many other acts), and as the owner … Continue reading Plague tales and blunderbusses
ELLI RIEHL: Die Kornmuhme Release year: 2022Label: Steinklang Industries Sometimes you come across an album that baffles and fascinates you so much, it takes ages to decide whether you like it or not – and even then each listen is … Continue reading Of folklore and outlandish music
PUISSANCE: War On Release year: 1999/2020Label: Fluttering Dragon/SkullLine In terms of martial industrial and martial neoclassical music, I think you can safely call Swedish Puissance pivotal. No, they weren’t the first to do this kind of music, but it seems … Continue reading Warring on with Puissance
V/A: Spiritual Sounds For Artsakh Release year: 2021Label: Steinklang Industries A bit of background to begin with, to better understand the nature of this two-disc compilation release. Artsakh is a region between Armenia and Azerbaidjan, which has been contested for … Continue reading Spiritual support for Artsakh
ULTRAPOLAR INTRUSION: This War Will Have No End… Release year: 2021Label: Steinklang Industries According to the description of the label, Russian Ultrapolar Intrusion’s new album is, and I quote, “an oppressive and brutal chronicle of a war that never ceases … Continue reading A war that has no end
TREPANERINGSRITUALEN: Veil The World Release year: 2011/2015/2021Label: Cold Spring Records Back in 2008-2013, when Swedish ritual industrial entity Trepaneringsritualen started out and almost immediately started to make a name for themselves, I was in the heaviest harsh noise/power electronics phase … Continue reading Veil the world in ritual rust
DIE WEISSE ROSE: White Roses In Bloom In Kyiv Release year: 2015/2021Label: Old Captain Originally released in 2015, White Roses In Bloom In Kyiv is Danish Die Weisse Rose’s third live album – with only one studio full-length to their … Continue reading Our martyrium of white roses
METADEVICE: Turba Release year: 2021Label: New Approach Records I’ll readily admit that for a long while, I was thrown off by Portugese Metadevice’s most recent release. Whilst nominally not in a genre at all alien to me, Turba’s industrial soundscapes … Continue reading Metadevice’s urban isolation
NEOLITHIC NATION: Atavism Release year: 2021Label: Steinklang Industries Delving further into long-running industrial label Steinklang Industries‘ recent output, next up is what is apparently the debut release of Russian industrial noise unit Neolithic Nation. This is another interesting package offering … Continue reading Neolithic Atavism
ESCUADRON DE LA MUERTE: Bastion XXIII Release year: 2021Label: Steinklang Industries Mexican Escuadron De La Muerte’s – Spanish for Squadron Of Death, unless I am entirely mistaken – latest album is a confusing mixture of themes and conflicting aesthetics. In … Continue reading Satan, Lucifer, the light brigade and pink elephants
Only Death Is Real 