We’re already almost a third into June, so I guess you could say this newsletter is woefully late! Compared to last month, there’s been more activity on the ODIR website, including the first interview of the year. Typically, summer has … Continue reading ODIR Newsletter #4: Death In Junebugs
Welcome to the first edition of the ODIR Newsletter, which is meant to be a more-or-less monthly publication, wherein we highlight not only stuff from the ODIR website, but also interesting and relevant news from friends and others. We live … Continue reading ODIR Newsletter #1: The Ideas of March
Release year: 2024Label: Misantropia Records In our review of Finnish Waeltaja’s previous album Heremite (review here), we remarked that it made us want to like dungeon synth – but lamentably few releases fare well in comparison to it. As such, … Continue reading WAELTAJA: Beholding The Ruins Of My Kingdom
Release year: 2024Label: Misantropia Records Put together, the two acts on this split have (according to Discogs) a total of 63 releases since 2012. That’s pretty prolific – but scarcely balanced, considering Somber Winds is responsible for two of these, … Continue reading KALMANKANTAJA/SOMBER WINDS: Split
WAELTAJA: Heremite Release year: 2023Label: Misantropia Records Dungeon synth. Now there’s a genre so easy to hate it’s almost ridiculous. It’s kind of like the goofy, nerdy cousin of black metal, taking all the silliest and nerdiest elements from it … Continue reading Wanderers and hermits
Only Death Is Real 