Year: 2026Label: Steinklang Industries This is a hard release to review. Francesco Hernandez, sole member of Mexican Escuadron De La Muerte, passed away untimely in late 2022, before finishing the album he was working on. The tracks he had time … Continue reading ESCUADRON DE LA MUERTE: Prototype 1900-2020
Year: 2026Label: New Approach Records The ever-amorphous, ever-unpredictable Absolute Key return with another album that sees them shift form. Experimentalism has always remained a core element of the Finnish one-man project, but within that loose context, they’ve explored a width … Continue reading ABSOLUTE KEY: Facets Of War
I’ve no problem to admit that I’m a bit of a “noise tourist.” I don’t know a whole lot of people in the scene, I don’t rush out to buy every single new tape drop from hot labels (and no … Continue reading From the Vaults #21: What’s Left?
Year: 202?Label: Steinklang Industries French Vologne’s debut tape, also on Steinklang (review), explored themes of unusual, dysfunctional minds and the deep recesses of the human psyche. As can be deduced from the title of this second tape, Vologne continue down … Continue reading VOLOGNE: Lost Illusions Turned Into Black Rage
Year: 2023Label: self-released I suppose you could say US act Maligna Cerebra play with an open hand. The project’s name translates to “malignant brain”, the name of this EP length release to “deathly pallor.” These, and the cover image of … Continue reading MALIGNA CEREBRA: Pallor Mortis
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: 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 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: Steinklang Industries Italian Whiterat don’t muck about on their newest tape release. From the very first second, the listener is bombarded with an unrelenting barrage of harsh, violent and extremely abrasive noise. And for the next 22 minutes, … Continue reading WHITERAT: Conglomerate Malaction
Year: 2024Label: Steinklang Industries There’s an old saying that all good things come in threes. I guess Steinklang took that to heart with this most recent batch of tapes. Three tapes, three good ones. We’re only on the second tape … Continue reading VOLOGNE: Total Purge For The Living
Only Death Is Real 