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Year: 2024Label: Zoharum This is one of those cases, where I’ll readily admit I am completely out of my depth. The label’s promo sheet throws around terms such as minimal, dub, post techno, industrial and experimental when describing this 20 … Continue reading NOR_POL: +
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum Indeed an appropriate name for Swiss B°Tong’s umpteenth album, {Mass}. The release, divided across two CD’s, has a running time of almost 1,5 hours, which is massive by any standards. And when the music is some kind … Continue reading B°TONG: {Mass}
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum We’re back with a couple of old friends om this split release. We reviewed Larmo’s debut album Alarm not too long ago (here); Nothing Has Changed on the other hand is the project of Michael “Neithan” Kielbasa, … Continue reading LARMO/NOTHING HAS CHANGED: Grey Zone
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum/Esion Records Here’s a misleading name if I ever heard one. There’s absolutely nothing violent, belligerent or aggressive in Polish That’s How I Fight’s music. With a name like that, I’d expected, I dunno, maybe some kind of … Continue reading THAT’S HOW I FIGHT: Movement Three
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum “Sludge/doom metal with drone and dark ambient elements.” What kind of music does that make you think of? Me, I think of some kind of minimalistic, raw, borderline funeral doom experimentalism. Something that reeks of nightmares, terrors … Continue reading NOCHE OSCURA: Gardens
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum Here’s a release that might result in some pretty controversial reviews. Or perhaps the reviews won’t be controversial, because so few reviews spark any kind of genuine reaction these days, but I am sure this release will … Continue reading RAPOON: Dream Circle (In Three Phases)
Year: 2024Label: Mobstyle Music/Majik Ninja Entertainment It’s been a long wait since 2021’s Cadaver. But now we finally have some new Blaze Ya Dead Homie. Right? Well, not quite. This is a collaborative mini-album by the dead gangsta and horrorcore … Continue reading BLAZE YA DEAD HOMIE & BUKSHOT: Blockwork Morgue
Year: 2024Publisher: SalakirjatAvailable in: Finnish Esotericism has risen to become a surprisingly hot topic in Finnish literature during the last few years. This year alone, there’s been at least three other books on esoteric topics by non-esoteric publishers (we covered … Continue reading Larvanto, Rikhard: VARJOTAIVAL
Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum The thing with abstract music is… well, that it’s abstract. I suppose this sounds like a redundant statement, but bear with me a moment. The thing with abstraction is that, essentially, it easily becomes shapeless and … Continue reading ULESA: II
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum You all know that reviews are totally, 100% subjective, right? Well, notwithstanding that technical errors in production and musicianship can be objectively critiqued, e.g. if there are flaws in reproduction or performance; but apart from that, whether … Continue reading BRUME: Syncronicity & Wandering Current
Only Death Is Real 