Year: 2024Label: Steinklang Industries French Regard Extreme are back with another slab of their medieval neoclassical – or call it what you want – following 2021’s Ars Veterum (reviewed here) and 2022’s compilation of reworked older tracks, Legacy (reviewed here). … Continue reading REGARD EXTREME: Eco Solemnis
Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum Music is a universal language, they say. And most of the time they’re right – whoever they are. But there are times when music isn’t universal enough; times, when not understanding the lyrics will make an … Continue reading ZŁE OKO: Xenos
Release year: 1995/2024Label: Steinklang Industries/Aube Et Crépuscule This is a bit of a tricky release to review. You see, what we have on hand is a re-release of French Dawn & Dusk Entwined’s very first recordings, originally released as two … Continue reading DAWN & DUSK ENTWINED: Myth, Faith, Belief
Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum Once again I am faced with the task of reviewing a release by Polish Zoharum, and once again I find myself a bit stumped. This happens every now and then, especially when it comes to the … Continue reading RAFAŁ KOŁACKI: Mowa Tworzenia
Release year: 2024Label: Steinklang Industries On their follow-up to 2021’s Rottenverse (reviewed here), German Bresthaft are simply more. More vicious, more loud, more noisy, more sadistic. More. So no point to beat around the bush. I’m going to spoil the … Continue reading BRESTHAFT: Termination Transmission
Release year: 2024Label: Steinklang Industries A couple of years back, we took a stab at pulling apart and reviewing Belgian In Search Of Death’s previous release, simply titled II (see here). It contained material recorded in the early noughties, recently … Continue reading IN SEARCH OF DEATH: I
Release year: 1990/2024Label: ZNS Tapes/Zoharum The promo sheet for Polish Zoharum’s recent re-release of German Maeror Tri’s 1990 tape Ambient Dreams mentions that it was created entirely from sounds sourced from natural sources. No electronic sound sources were apparently used. … Continue reading MAEROR TRI: Ambient Dreams
Release Year: 2024Label: Zoharum Tunnels Of Āh are a dark ambient act who’ve been releasing material for a bit above ten years now, most of them via renowned UK label for dark, weird and experimental music Cold Spring. So whilst … Continue reading TUNNELS OF ĀH: The Charnel Working + Klesha File
Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum And once more, we arrive at Polish Zoharum’s doorstep to see what peculiarities they have put out. Schröttersburg, also from Poland, are already on their sixth album according to the promo sheet, several of which have … Continue reading SCHRÖTTERSBURG: Kosmogonia
Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum Oh those weird, weird weirdoes at Zoharum and their releases. The promo text for Polish Naktys’ debut album describes the album as mixing elements of EBM, techno, industrial, trance and – of all things – rap. … Continue reading NAKTYS: Liturgia
Only Death Is Real 