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DOC GRUESOME: Self Titled Release year: 2022Label: S’laughter Visions As those who follow this site with some attention will have surmised, when it comes to rap, I am a horrorcore guy. It’s not the only kind of rap I like … Continue reading The Doc will see you now
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
NIGHTSIDE: Lions Release year: 2023Label: Purity Through Fire Finnish Nightside released a small body of material in the late 90’s and early noughties, the majority of which was compiled on the album-slash-compilation The End Of Christianity (reviewed here), and then … Continue reading New emanations from the nightside
PATIENT OMEGA: Broken Mind In A Rotting Body Release year: 2023Label: Misantropia Records I touched upon the issues relating to the thematics of instrumental music in my review of L’Ègarement D’Esprit’s album Written In Stone (here). I find myself returning … Continue reading Patient Omega’s broken minds and rotten bodies
MOON ORACLE: Ophidian Glare Release year: 2023Label: Bestial Burst/Signal Rex Two years after their debut album, Finnish trio Moon Oracle are back with another helping of mystical, doom-ladened black metal. Whilst some things have changed, the core essence of traditional … Continue reading Serpentine stare of the moon oracle
CONDEMNED 84: The Crusade Continues… Release year: 2023Label: Askania Productions I wager that if you ask a bunch of skinheads which band best embodies the skinhead style sonically, Condemned 84 would be quite high on that list. Having been active … Continue reading Condemned 84 on crusade
ABYSMAL LORD: Bestiary Of Immortal Hunger Release year: 2022Label: Hell’s Headbangers Imagine, if you will, an alternate reality where seminal Finnish black metal act Beherit never changed their style from their early releases encapsuled on the debut album The Oath … Continue reading Abysmal bestiaries of black blood
DERNIÈRE VOLONTÉ: Cristal Release year: 2022Label: Silences Et Grésillements French one-man project Dernière Volonté are one of those acts with a truly baffling musical trajectory. They started out in the 90’s with a couple of tapes of martial industrial which … Continue reading Crystalline last will
COLDNESS/IRAE: We Are The Ashes Release year: 2023Label: Nekrogoat Heresy Productions Portugese black metal and the Portugese black metal sound is something of a thing. I suppose it can be safely called an acquired taste: often leaning towards the incessantly … Continue reading Portugese ashes
BATMOBILE: Brace For Impact Release year: 2023Label: Music On CD Having started out in 1983, Dutch Batmobile are one of the original psychobilly groups, and a steady presence within the scene. The band did take a short hiatus in the … Continue reading Batmobile bracing for impact
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