Release year: 2024Label: Ambirial Mvsic Productions/Misantropia Records According to a statement included in the booklet of this album, Enter The Seasonal Ritual is, and I quote, “more a soundtrack to an unmade folk horror film rather than a conventional album.” … Continue reading THE CULT OF SUNLIGHT: Enter The Seasonal Ritual
Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum Sutcliffe No More? Time to get with the program if you still haven’t heard: seminal UK power electronics outfit Sutcliffe Jugend called it a day in 2019, and after a short stint as Slaves No More, … Continue reading SUTCLIFFE NO MORE: Cute
Release Year: 2024Label: Zoharum Tunnels Of Āh are a dark ambient act who’ve been releasing material for a bit above ten years now, most of them via renowned UK label for dark, weird and experimental music Cold Spring. So whilst … Continue reading TUNNELS OF ĀH: The Charnel Working + Klesha File
Release year: 2024Label: Western Star Records Apparently, UK psychobilly act The Bad Roaches only ever recorded this one album and that was pretty much it. And for whatever reason, it remained unreleased for 13 years: recorded in 2011, this 2024 … Continue reading THE BAD ROACHES: Poison Heart
Release year: 2024Label: Mutant Rock Records During the COVID years, British psychobilly originators The Meteors seemed to be living in the studio. During 2021, they cranked out a whopping three full-length albums. And, to be honest, one could not escape … Continue reading THE METEORS: 40 Days A Rotting
Release year: 2024Label: Randale Records/Pirates Press Records/Captain Oi!/Cherry Red Records And here, for one final time, is Cock Sparrer. If you listen to punk or oi!, you’ve no excuse not to know who these guys are. Formed way back in … Continue reading COCK SPARRER: Hand On Heart
RAPOON: Time Frost Release year: 2007/2023Label: Glacial Movements/Zoharum Talk about a misleading album. The first four tracks on Time Frost are in the passable range of about six minutes – here I was thinking I had finally on my hands … Continue reading Time of frost
ANDRACCA: To Bare The Weight Of Death Release year: 2024Label: Vendetta Records Would you be surprised to hear the UK act Andracca’s second album has a tricky title? The digital promo had the name tagged as To Bear The Weight … Continue reading Regarding the weight of death
THE STARGAZER’S ASSISTANT: Fire Worshipper Release year: 2023Label: House Of Mythology/Zoharum Ambient is a tough genre for me. Which is kind of weird, because I really dig dark ambient and especially all kinds of ritualistic, droning minimalism. But “straight” ambient… … Continue reading Fire worshipper’s assistant
Black Sabbath’s Technical Ecstasy is a document of a band losing its way, lost in a maze of fame, success and above all: drugs. Already their previous album, 1975’s Sabotage started showing some serious cracks in the mirror, but on … Continue reading From the Vaults #5: Technical Ecstasy
Only Death Is Real 