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Release year: 2024Label: Last Day Of The North Finnish Šamane are an act I’ve been following with some interest ever since their debut album Kaukana virtaa Eufrat (2019). The debut album was a bit of an uneven affair, combining elements … Continue reading ŠAMANE: Solstice
Year: 2024Publisher: Basam BooksOriginal title: High Magick – A Guide to the Spiritual Practices That Saved My Life on Death RowAvailable in: multiple languages The name of Damien Echols might be familiar to you not only if you have an … Continue reading Echols, Damien: KORKEA MAGIA
Release year: 2024Label: self-released It’s funny. Whenever winter starts turning to spring, I start listening to horrorcore. I mean, I listen to it all year ’round a little bit, but when the first signs of spring start to appear, that’s … Continue reading KEAGAN GRIMM: Gospell
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
BRANDKOMMANDO: Jugoslavija 1941-1945 Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum The tricky thing with music such as power electronics is that often its hard to get a grasp on the thematics. And often, when you do, it’s hard to know the angle. Are … Continue reading An ode to Yugoslavia
Guénon, René: MODERNIN MAAILMAN KRIISI Release year: 2024Publisher: Kiuas KustannusAvailable in: multiple languages If I were to recommend one book for anyone with an interest in traditionalism, it would surely be French philosopher and metaphysician René Guénon’s (1886-1951) La Crise … Continue reading Of modern crises
WHITE STAINS: Dreams Shall Flesh (Redux) Release year: 1991/2024Label: Psychick Release PSP/Zoharum In the dark, convoluted and seemingly bottomless abysses of underground, esoteric music, there is always something new to find. Something that makes you realize that no matter how … Continue reading Dreams flesh again
LUNAR SPELLS: Sacraments Of Necromantical Empires Release year: 2024Label: Northern Silence Productions Some two years ago, we reviewed Greek Lunar Spell’s second album Demise Of Heaven (here). Now the Greek black metal act are back with their third album, and … Continue reading Lunar spells of necromantical empires
THOSE POOR BASTARDS: Back To The Primitive Release year: 2024Label: Tribulation Recording Company As I stated in my review of US gothic country act Those Poor Bastard’s previous album God Awful (here), it’s been a while since the group have … Continue reading Back to the trite
Only Death Is Real 