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
Year: 2025Label: Rune Serpent Europa All fans of 90’s British experimental/electronic/industrial music – sit up straight and pay attention! You there in the back, who ramble on about apocalyptic folk. And you there by the window, who can’t get enough … Continue reading KATHODOS: Parasomnia: Pavor Nocturnus
This past summer, we received the debut album Without Idols of Hungarian group Napsorvadás for review. From the first listen, we recognized it as something quite special. The album blends several currents of post-industrial music into a whole, and still … Continue reading Tracing The Spirit Of Apocalyptic Folk With Napsorvadás
Martial industrial as a genre has always, from the onset, been controversial. Neofolk too, to an extreme extent. However, in many ways, martial industrial is a far more niché genre than neofolk; the latter has throughout the years both conceptually … Continue reading Ambiguity as the heart of martial industrial
Year: 2024Label: Aorta Austrian Allerseelen are one of those enigmatic and perplexing artists, who are incredibly difficult to pin down into any one genre or form of expression. Even when their albums retain a certain stylistic approach, it is next … Continue reading ALLERSEELEN: Toteninsel
Year: 2025Label: Dunkelheit Produktionen We’ve reviewed a number of releases by Finnish experimental act Absolute Key (see here), and if there’s one thing we’ve come to expect is to not have expectations. Straddling an amorphous no man’s land between industrial, … Continue reading ABSOLUTE KEY: Ei meidän kotimme
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
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