Year: 2025Label: Obelisk Polaris Productions Death/doom is a wide spectrum, ranging from Winter’s crust/hardcore influenced lurching heaviness, to Coffins’ Hellhammer-style boneheaded heaviness, to beyond. In the larger spectrum, an odd sort of outlier is the romantic, gothic style of death/doom … Continue reading SOLUS REX: Scenes From Yonder Life
Year: 2025Label: Aristae/Only The Sun Knows Flammenlieder is an interesting series of releases curated by German neofolk act Leger Des Heils. The first was an album by Leger Des Heils, whilst the second was a three-track compilation featuring alongside the … Continue reading V/A: Flammenlieder MMXXV
Year: 2025Label: Misantropia Records The Swedish suicidalists are back at it. Last year’s mini-album Apostate (review) saw Yritys expand their sound from the most generic DSBM towards an at times more aggressive and traditional black metal sound. The result was … Continue reading YRITYS: Mors Mecum Ambulat
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
Release year: 2025Label: self-released Wait, what, did I mistake this band for someone else? That was my first thought when putting on Swedish Demolyn’s new EP. See, in comparison with the debut release Tales Of Demolyn (reviewed here), Slay The … Continue reading DEMOLYN: Slay The Godhead
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum Swedish Jarl is another of those hyper-productive artists, whose discography is extensive to say the least. In about 25 years, the project has released, according to Discogs, 37 albums and a few other things, resulting in a … Continue reading JARL: Receptor Radiation
Year: 2025Label: Vendetta Records The scitalis was, apparently, a mythical serpent of antiquity with so amazing markings on its back that it could stun whoever saw it. I presume the serpent would then proceed to make lunch of those such … Continue reading SCITALIS: Maledictum
Year: 2024Label: Misantropia Records Swedish depressive and suicidal black metal act Yritys are back at it with a second attempt. The debut album Delusion(s) (reviewed here) wasn’t quite my cup of tea despite having some elements I liked. Considering the … Continue reading YRITYS: Apostate
If you’re from Finland or Sweden and paid attention to what was going on in popular music in the mid-90’s, you couldn’t escape Swedish folk pop duo Nordman. During the era of grunge, eurodance and gangsta rap, they were probably … Continue reading From the Vaults #12: Nordman
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
Only Death Is Real 