Reviews across all categories: albums, books, movies.
Year: 2025Label: Bluelight Records Earlier this year, in our From the Vaults series, we covered British Beltane Fire’s sole album Different Breed (here). Beltane Fire is the fourth moniker of the band, best known and loved as neobilly act The … Continue reading BELTANE FIRE: White Stag
Year: 2022Label: self-released I actually have a tenuous link to Brazilian Lupusvir. We both appeared on the 2024 digital-only compilation Knife City. Beyond that, I didn’t know much about the one man project, except for a vague understanding that it … Continue reading LUPUSVIR: .//Passport_to_filg4ia
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum And all of a sudden, we’re out of our depth once again. This happens every time with Zoharum’s promo batches. Sometimes it’s something wildly experimental, sometimes something extremely oddball. And this time around, it’s something far simpler: … Continue reading HRV: Actually Not A Lifeparty
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Ever active UK act Rapoon are at it again, this time with colleagues Pas Musique from the other side of the Atlantic. It’s the first time we cover a joint effort by them, but the two groups … Continue reading RAPOON & PAS MUSIQUE: Knowledge Has No Enemies But The Ignorant
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum This here’s a weird album. Apparently, Stephen Āh Burroughs of Tunnels Of Āh fame got his hands on some recordings by Polish Genetic Transmission and was so impressed by them, he decided to do his own reinterpretation … Continue reading FRAG: Frag Deconstructed Genetic Transmission
Year: 2025Label: Inverse Records Already for decades, Finland has been a veritable breeding ground of black metal. Where in the 90’s Finland never really achieved the status our neighbours to the west did, despite having a couple of absolute primogenitor … Continue reading VALONTUOJA: Tulesta syntynyt
Year: 2004/2025Label: Die Schöne Blumen Musik Werk/Zoharum Polish Zoharum delve once again into the Genetic Transmission archives to uncover yet another long out of print, obscure release from Tomasz Twardawa’s vast archives. This time, the Zoharum treatment gets 2004’s My … Continue reading GENETIC TRANSMISSION: My Inspiration Is You
Year: 2025Label: Freak Animal Often, when I’m reviewing noise, I’m thinking: why? What’s the point? Noise is… well, noise. And I don’t mean that in the sense that it’s all just mindless cacophony and who in their right mind listens … Continue reading RAUTAKYMI: Ei tästä maailmasta
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum This is an intolerable album. No beating around the bush: I don’t like this album. It annoys and irritates me. It’s a frustrating listen. But it’s an album that won’t let you be. It’s an album that … Continue reading ŁUBIN: Gaza
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Zoharum is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you gonna get, as Forrest Gump once famously said. Well, he didn’t say that, but were he into writing about music and was on Zoharum’s promo … Continue reading HVAST: Chwasty Polskie
Only Death Is Real 