Year: 2026Label: Zoharum Swedish Jarl are at it again: another hefty piece of ambient, exploring the more minute details of the human body. The previous albums we’ve reviewed by them, Synapse Variation Report (here) and Receptor Radiation (here) also dealt … Continue reading JARL: Nerve Cell Threads Electronics
Year: 2025Label:Warade No, this isn’t a new Ordo Rosarius Equilibrium album. It’s been a while since Nihilist Notes (review) was released – four years, in fact, so we’re starting to get hungry for something new. Instead, this is a two-in-one … Continue reading ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO: 4 Equilibrium & Nihilism
Year: 2026Label: Xtreem Music Rogga Johansson is a name you will come across at some point if you’re into death metal. The list of bands he is and has been involved with is extensive, but at least not upon closer … Continue reading PAGANIZER: As Mankind Rots
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Here’s an album I wanted to like from the moment I set my eyes on its cover. There’s something in the combination of this slightly blurry, beautiful picture of nature and the name of the album that’s … Continue reading MOLJEBKA PVLSE: An Expression Of A Poetry That Was Lost
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
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