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
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… that’s an entirely different cup … Continue reading THE STARGAZER’S ASSISTANT: Fire Worshipperr’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
RED PAINTED RED: That Was The Reason Why Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum British duo Red Painted Red are one of those groups who’re genuinely hard to pin down. That much is clear already from label Zoharum’s description of the album. … Continue reading Red reasons why
Do you remember the first CD you ever bought? Do you remember when it was? I certainly remember mine. It was Babylon Zoo’s The Boy With The X-Ray Eyes, in the summer of 1996. Our family had just bought our … Continue reading From the Vaults #4: Dehumanizer
THE HANGMEN: Debauchery In The Mortuary Release year: 2022/2023Label: Mortuary Records/Crazy Love Records It’s been a long wait for friends of British psychobilly act The Hangmen: their previous album was released way back in 2007, after which there’s only been … Continue reading Psycho party in the mortuary
CDG NOIR: Static Momentum Release year: 2023Label: self-released I’ll level with ya. When it comes to the harsher end of the industrial/post-industrial spectrum, my preferred style is without doubt power electronics. Typically, it’s got a bit more structure and internal … Continue reading Monuments to static momentum
THE SUSPENDED APPARITION: It’s Sealed Inside The Church Release year: 2023Label: Misantropia Records My real introduction to all kinds of industrial and post-industrial music was some twenty-odd years ago, in the early noughties, in the form of dark ambient music. … Continue reading Apparitions inside the church
Only Death Is Real 