Year: 2024Label: Zoharum We’re back with a couple of old friends om this split release. We reviewed Larmo’s debut album Alarm not too long ago (here); Nothing Has Changed on the other hand is the project of Michael “Neithan” Kielbasa, … Continue reading LARMO/NOTHING HAS CHANGED: Grey Zone
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum/Esion Records Here’s a misleading name if I ever heard one. There’s absolutely nothing violent, belligerent or aggressive in Polish That’s How I Fight’s music. With a name like that, I’d expected, I dunno, maybe some kind of … Continue reading THAT’S HOW I FIGHT: Movement Three
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum “Sludge/doom metal with drone and dark ambient elements.” What kind of music does that make you think of? Me, I think of some kind of minimalistic, raw, borderline funeral doom experimentalism. Something that reeks of nightmares, terrors … Continue reading NOCHE OSCURA: Gardens
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum Here’s a release that might result in some pretty controversial reviews. Or perhaps the reviews won’t be controversial, because so few reviews spark any kind of genuine reaction these days, but I am sure this release will … Continue reading RAPOON: Dream Circle (In Three Phases)
Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum The thing with abstract music is… well, that it’s abstract. I suppose this sounds like a redundant statement, but bear with me a moment. The thing with abstraction is that, essentially, it easily becomes shapeless and … Continue reading ULESA: II
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum You all know that reviews are totally, 100% subjective, right? Well, notwithstanding that technical errors in production and musicianship can be objectively critiqued, e.g. if there are flaws in reproduction or performance; but apart from that, whether … Continue reading BRUME: Syncronicity & Wandering Current
Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum Music is a universal language, they say. And most of the time they’re right – whoever they are. But there are times when music isn’t universal enough; times, when not understanding the lyrics will make an … Continue reading ZŁE OKO: Xenos
Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum If you want weird, you got weird. Polish Królówczana Smuga’s sixth album is a veritable cornucopia of, well, just about everything. The label’s promo sheet mentions as influences and key elements keywords such as folklore, alternative, … Continue reading KRÓLÓWCZANA SMUGA: Konwulsanki
Release year: 2019/2024Label: Amek/Zoharum Polish label Zoharum continue their praxis of re-releasing obscure and sold-out material. This time around it’s Greek Conjecture’s 2019 album V, augmented with tracks from related EP ∫V, on the fifth anniversary of the original album’s … Continue reading CONJECTURE: V
Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum “Larmo means noise”, says a sticker I got along with this album. Larmo the music act, however, isn’t noise. Well, except when it is. Confused? Don’t worry. By and large, the soundscapes of Larmo’s debut album … Continue reading LARMO: Alarm
Only Death Is Real 