WHALESONG: Leaving A Dream Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum/Old Temple Talk about a massive album. Polish Whalesong‘s newest, third full length album spans two discs and consists in total of two hours and ten minutes of music. That’d be a lot … Continue reading Leaving dreams
LÄJÄ ÄIJÄLÄ AND ALBERT WITCHFINDER: Triumph & Ordeal Release year: 2023Label: Svart Records When speaking of legends within Finnish extreme music, they don’t come much more legendary than Läjä Äijälä. Vocalist and band leader of hardcore pioneers Terveet Kädet (whose … Continue reading Through ordeals to triumph?
THE SUSPENDED APPARITION: It’s Sealed Inside The Church Release year: 2023Label: Misantropia Records My real introduction to all kinds of industrial and post-industrial music was some twenty-odd years ago, in the early noughties, in the form of dark ambient music. … Continue reading Apparitions inside the church
GOVERNMENT ALPHA: Mind-Altering Substance Release year: 2023Label: Steinklang Industries Steinklang’s most recent batch of releases included a couple of pretty major names within the industrial/noise field. Maurizio Bianchi, whose newest album Geni-Z we recently reviewed (here) is of course a … Continue reading Mind alterations a’la Government Alpha
MAURIZIO BIANCHI: Geni-Z Release year: 2023Label: Steinklang Industries Italian Maurizio Bianchi is right there at the genesis of the industrial music scene. He released his first tapes already in the 70’s, had releases out on Come Org. and Sterile Records, … Continue reading Maurizio Bianchi and the DNA of industrial music
ABSOLUTE KEY: Lauluja laaksoista Release year: 2023Label: Tampereen levyt My issue with music and artists labelled as “experimental” is that if the artist has an established sound, is it experimental anymore? Take for example various artists within post-industrial music: from … Continue reading Songs from the valleys of Nangijala
KRASCHAU: Ultrakonservativ Schlagerparade Release year: 2022Label: Gradual Hate Records In comparison to the album I reviewed yesterday (African Imperial Wizard’s Nzinga Mbande), Kraschau has always been considerably less enigmatic and without all the layers of subterfuge. The martial industrial project … Continue reading Traditionalist hit parade
KAARNA: Kultataivaat, hopeaveet, unet helmiäistä Release year: 2022Label: Anima Arctica The eccentric and ever-shifting Kaarna have had a pretty steady release schedule. Since the one-man project’s debut album Comitatus Savolaxiae in 2019, the steady pace has been one album per … Continue reading Kaarna’s reveries under golden skies
ABSOLUTE KEY: The Third Level Of Decay Release year: 2022Label: Signal Rex Previously, we reviewed Finnish one man act Absolute Key’s Sundust (here), calling its combination of industrial and black metal “an album of intriguingly twisted esoteric electronics”. The prolific … Continue reading Keys to the three levels of decay
ABSOLUTE KEY: Sundust Release year: 2022Label: Nekrogoat Heresy Productions Describing something as a mixture of industrial and black metal will most likely conjure up all kinds of rather disparate images in people’s minds. Some will think of machinized beats and … Continue reading Absolute keys to fire and dust
Only Death Is Real 