BLOCCONERO: Cronache Release year: 2023Label: self-released The conceptual and ideological history and genealogy of industrial music is long, complex, self-contradictory and confusing. Ever since its inception, industrial has been dabbling in the entire spectrum of political expression, usually gravitating towards … Continue reading Black bloc chronicles
HARMONY OF STRUGGLE: Brutal Aesthetics Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum One thing I’ve always wondered about are individuals with several projects within the same genre. What’s the reason, the point? OK, if they are stylistically drastically different from each other, then … Continue reading Brutal harmony
SECT7: Obsessiveness Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum I know nothing about techno. That’s one of the genres I’ve never had much of an interest in or liked very much. This matters because that’s exactly what Polish Sect7 are: techno. But let’s … Continue reading Obsessing with Sect7
LUGOLA: The Truth Penetrates Your Mouth Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum It’s honestly a bit tough to write about power electronics from time to time. Especially in the case of an act like Lugola and their second album The Truth Penetrates … Continue reading Lugola penetrates your mouth
CHORE IA: Postscriptum/Neogolizmowa Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum/Antenna Non Grata Experimentalism is a tough nut. Sometimes you get it right, sometimes you don’t. Maybe, when it comes to experimental music, sometimes it’s up to the listener. At any rate, Polish Chore … Continue reading The past and present of Chore Ia
ARDITI: Insignia Of The Sun Release year: 2020/2023Label: Blooddawn Productions Martial industrial stalwarts Arditi have been active on the release front this year: this is already their second release in 2023. However, unlike Emblem Of Victory (reviewed here), Insignia Of … Continue reading Arditi’s solar symbolism
AJNA: Inevitable Mortality Release year: 2016/2023Label: Reverse Alignment/Zoharum Listening to US based act Ajna’s Inevitable Mortality, I find myself musing over what a funny genre of music dark ambient is. It’s entirely non-musical, usually extremely minimalist, with drawn-out pieces that … Continue reading Ajna’s inevitability
ARUM LILIES: Subsurface Aquifers Release year: 2023Label: Death Continues Records From the very onset, there’s something delightfully warped and just ever so slightly twisted about Australian Arum Lilies’ second album Subsurface Aquifers. From the covers and packaging to the music … Continue reading Subsurface lilies
CDG NOIR: Static Momentum Release year: 2023Label: self-released I’ll level with ya. When it comes to the harsher end of the industrial/post-industrial spectrum, my preferred style is without doubt power electronics. Typically, it’s got a bit more structure and internal … Continue reading Monuments to static momentum
AMPSCENT: Ampscent Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum …It smells like a bad pun. And indeed, I do think this is a new low for the bad puns we are wont to use here at Only Death Is Real. But you’ll just … Continue reading I love the smell of amps in the morning…
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