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My Dearest Wound – The Burial (Tragedy Productions)

[Before we start: a significant part of the lyrical content of this album makes (non-explicit/graphic) reference to suicide, child abuse and self-harm, from the child’s perspective. I’ve mentioned but not quoted this in the review, so that readers can make… Continue Reading →

Dawn of Ouroboros – Velvet Incandescence (Prosthetic Records)

“Evergreen animates expansive imagery, stirring notes with cerulean bodies of calm rippled surfaces …. Healing grounds, enlighten. To catch fire and fire down over the problematic uncertainties”. This lyrical extract from “Healing Grounds”, the opening track of this second album… Continue Reading →

Downfall of Gaia – Silhouettes of Disgust (Metal Blade)

Last time I checked, the collapse of Mother Earth was still in progress. The German crust punk/post-black metal band Downfall of Gaia, named after that very same process, can therefore claim undiminished relevance despite being active for 15 years. Silhouettes… Continue Reading →

Cailleach Calling – Dreams of Fragmentation (Debemur Morti)

With this album, Californians Cailleach Calling (along with Ukrainian drummer Yurii Kononov) “fuse trancelike Emperial bludgeon with dreamlike melodic ambience, countering vocals of tether-end savagery with emotive, ethereal intimations of deep space”, we’re told. The ambiance is distinctly black metal…. Continue Reading →

Sylvaine – Nova (Season Of Mist)

Sylvaine has quietly crept upon the underground music community building her reputation on solid musicianship and jaw dropping live performances. ‘Nova’ is the Norwegian vocalist and multi instrumentalist’s 4th album and it is a real gem. Built around Kathrine’s impressive vocal… Continue Reading →

Ghost Bath – Self Loather (Nuclear Blast)

It is hard not to talk about Ghost Bath without mentioning a couple of things that gave them some low level “notoriety”. First off, the China hoax – when the band released their debut “Funeral” on Chinese label Pest Productions in 2014 there was… Continue Reading →

Dødsdrift – Ødnis (Vendetta Records)

Quickly following up on debut 2019 self-released album Weltenszission, Dødsdrift are a relatively new outfit hailing from Northern Germany we are told. From here things are sketchy as the 5 figures standing hoodied-up with their backs to us prefer to… Continue Reading →

Misanthur – Ephemeris (Season Of Mist)

Although around since 2013 with a couple of demos and a split to their name this is the debut album from Polish duo Misanthur. Helmed by Hellscythe and Draugr they must be doing something right to end up releasing it… Continue Reading →

Unreqvited – Beautiful Ghosts (Prophecy Productions)

It only seems five minutes ago that I was reviewing Unreqvited’s last album ‘Mosaic II: la déteste et la détresse’ and the wonderful split with Sylvaine that was released at the same time, but here we are with another top-notch… Continue Reading →

An Autumn For Crippled Children – As The Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes (Prosthetic)

It’s just a bit over a year that AAfCC released their last full-length, and here they are presenting us with another one, their second on Prosthetic Records and their ninth in total. Too much too soon? Maybe. But what is… Continue Reading →

Lifeless – Anhedonia (Talheim Records)

This is not the first time that I have encountered Anhedonia “inability to feel pleasure in normally pleasurable activities” in the music we feature or indeed in life Itself. Another tried and tested subject matter Lifeless have at the heart… Continue Reading →

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