Year: 2025Label: Far From… Records Oh, great! Another one of those albums. Those albums, which are such a potpourri of styles and genres, that trying to describe it is an exercise in futility. In other words, a reviewer’s dream. I … Continue reading NAPSORVADÁS: Without Idols
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Whilst at first the name Scrotum+N. might strike you as confounding, upon closer inspection it turns out to be quite informative. For, you see, this is a joint venture of Polish Scrotum and Italian N. Out of … Continue reading SCROTUM+N.: …Dead Sessions…
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum/FYC Records What’s in a name? That’s a question I think we’ve asked before. This time around, the answer is: surprisingly much. At least when it comes to the name of the album at hand. “Cinematic Rituals” is … Continue reading INSCISSORS: The Wordless God II (And Other Cinematic Rituals)
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Vidna Obmana, who we’ve covered a number of times, may have been laid to rest about 20 years ago, but the creative mind behind it gets no rest. Testament to this is the sheer volume of releases … Continue reading DIRK SERRIES: Zonal Disturbances II
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Polish Brandkommando belong to the rather prolific end of the post-industrial spectrum. This year marks the 20th anniversary of their first release. During these two decades, the one-man project has released a respectable 43 releases according to … Continue reading BRANDKOMMANDO: Enslavement
Year: 2025Label: self-released (distribution via Steinklang Industries) This album has been a long time in the making. multinational H.E.R.R.’s ambitious album Vondel’s Lucifer – First Movement was released way back in 2006. As implied by the name, it was not … Continue reading H.E.R.R.: Vondel’s Lucifer – Second Movement
Year: 2025Label: Steinklang Industries In their almost 20 year long recording career, Dark Awake have been nothing if not prolific. Discogs lists 16 full length albums and half a dozen of shorter releases, which translates into way more than one … Continue reading DARK AWAKE: Dämmerung
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Just one look at the cover, and you know: you’re in for some of Zoharum weirdness. And when the promo sheet discusses everything but the music, you can be certain of it. Just about the only thing … Continue reading ZENIAL: Foil Punk
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum We reviewed Polish That’s How I Fight’s Movement Three some time ago (here) with no uncertain words of praise. The conceptually enticingly vague album convinced us with its cosmic, serene and psychedelic beauty. As such, we welcomed … Continue reading THAT’S HOW I FIGHT: Movement Three Continuum
Year: 2025Label: In Illo Tempore/Gladivs Records Taking their name from a short sword used by ancient Greeks, multinational Xiphos (not to be confused with the other Xiphos we’ve covered before) appropriately put their thematical focus on Ancient Greece. Though there … Continue reading XIPHOS: The Age Of Alexander
Only Death Is Real 