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healthyliving – Songs Of Abundance, Psalms of Grief (La Rubia Producciones)

Whilst attempting to tame technology to do my bidding and failing quite miserably, I finally manage to take a tour on the dusty backroads of the internet where you usually find all the good things. Not the rain slicked, hyper… Continue Reading →

Blacklist – Afterworld (Profound Lore)

Although the cover to the album at hand looks a lot like that to Kall’s last LP Brand, and although one could easily jump to conclusions and expect similar sounds and attitudes, it’s not DSBM that’s hiding beneath this sad… Continue Reading →

Hours Of Worship – The Cold That You Left (Iron Bonehead)

Type the band name into a search engine and you are more likely to be invited to church than anything else. Listen to their music though and you may find yourself in need of some redemption. As I guessed, this… Continue Reading →

Pencey Sloe – Neglect (Prophecy)

Well, this is ‘nice’ and that makes a change as it’s not a word that we use that often around these here parts. If you are looking for an album to while away a summer afternoon, lying on back in… Continue Reading →

Interview – E-L-R

E-L-R are a Swiss band from Bern, playing quite an individual mixture of Doom, Shoegaze and Black Metal. Recently, Prophecy Productions have released Vexier, the band’s second album. Lush soundscapes, filled to the rim, taking the listener on a journey… Continue Reading →

(Dolch) – Nacht (Van Records)

With each release, of which there are now numerous, it seems that this “dagger” has the German collective unsheathing and showing a bit more of themselves. We are still not on 1st name terms yet but the players are coming… 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 →

Mono – Pilgrimage of the Soul (Pelagic)

Twenty two years. Eleven studio albums. These Japanese loons have had a long and hopefully lucrative career. I have dipped in and out of their eclectic sounds over the years – usually as part of playlists made by mates who were… Continue Reading →

King Woman – Celestial Blues (Relapse)

When I first saw the cover to King Woman’s sophomore album Celestial Blues, depicting mastermind Kristinia Esfandiari as the fallen angel Lucifer, photographed from behind, with a torn garment, in an outfit alluding to sex, the back featuring raw, open… Continue Reading →

Ison – Aurora (Avantgarde)

Ison is an ambient post-rock project put together by Daniel Änghede (previously of Crippled Black Phoenix) and Light Field Reverie vocalist Heike Langhans. Having crafted two EPs in 2015 and 2018, the duos debut LP was released in 2019 to… Continue Reading →

Black Moon Mother – Illusions Under the Sun (Petrichor)

Part of the fun of review writing is coming across something good completely unexpectedly. Black Moon Mother from Nashville, Tennessee, and their debut Illusions Under the Sun definitely were a very positive surprise. The album cover with its golden lettering… Continue Reading →

Nadja – Luminous Rot (Southern Lord)

“Fuzzy doom shoegaze dreamsludge” is a hell of a lot of words to use in order to describe a band, however, Berlin based Canadian duo Nadja require just that to describe the soundscapes they’ve been crafting over the last 16… Continue Reading →

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