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Year: 2025Label: Trommelfell Records Uh oh. We are entering hostile waters now. German Paddlecell define their style as “horror ska and psychobilly.” I’m a big fan of ska, particularly original ska from the late 60’s and early 70’s, but when … Continue reading PADDLECELL: Spooky Jones
Year: 1992/2025Label: Misantropia Records We’re going about this a bit backwards, reviewing first Polish black metal legend Graveland’s third demo and turning our gaze now to the first and second demos. Honestly, we could come up with some fancy and … Continue reading GRAVELAND: Necromanteion
Year: 1992/2025Label: Misantropia Records Polish Graveland have had a few distinct phases in their career. Nowadays they are known for a very epic brand of viking black metal, where the influences from viking era Bathory are proudly on display. However, … Continue reading GRAVELAND: Drunemeton
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 Belgian Vidna Obmana and Polish Zoharum continue their joint effort to unearth rarities and unreleased tracks from the former’s archives. Where the first installment in this series (reviewed here) spanned the years 1990 to 1998, this second … Continue reading VIDNA OBMANA: Twilight Of Perception Redux: Volume Two 1995-2002
Year: 2025Label: Far From… Records Oh, great! Another one of those albums. Those albums, which are such a potpourri of styles and genres, that trying to describe it is an exercise in futility. In other words, a reviewer’s dream. I … Continue reading NAPSORVADÁS: Without Idols
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/FYC Records What’s in a name? That’s a question I think we’ve asked before. This time around, the answer is: surprisingly much. At least when it comes to the name of the album at hand. “Cinematic Rituals” is … Continue reading INSCISSORS: The Wordless God II (And Other Cinematic Rituals)
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Vidna Obmana, who we’ve covered a number of times, may have been laid to rest about 20 years ago, but the creative mind behind it gets no rest. Testament to this is the sheer volume of releases … Continue reading DIRK SERRIES: Zonal Disturbances II
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Last time we encountered Swedish Jarl, we talked about Receptor Radiation (read review). This time around, we stick to the same level of biology, and talk about synapses with Synapse Variation Report. The thematic similarity is no … Continue reading JARL: Synapse Variation Report
Only Death Is Real 