Mirocaw – Phytophthora Ramorum

This release is undoubtedly one of the spookiest of the year. Mirocaw hails from Moscow, Russia, and their music can be best described as eerie and unsettling. It evokes that feeling you get when walking through a dark swamp, sensing that something is watching you, intent on your destruction. It’s Continue Reading

Various Artists – Kalamine Records: Inside / Beside X

Kalamine Records hasn’t been featured on the blog for quite some time now, so it’s time to remedy this!  Their latest offering is a compilation of the dark ambient they are so famous for curating and hard electronic music that you could almost dance to.  Standout artists on the compilation Continue Reading

Various Artists – Golpea Tu Cerebro: Spanish Underground Cassette Culture, 1980 – 1988

From the release’s Bandcamp site: ““Golpea Tu Cerebro” (“Shake Your Brain”) is the first ever vinyl compilation dedicated to the unknown yet fascinating Spanish underground cassette scene from the ’80s. In the early 80s, with few resources but unlimited imagination, youngsters all across Spain started recording at home their experimental, Continue Reading

JOHN 3:16 & EISENLAGER – De Lumière et d’Obscurité

This will be a tough one to review, I’m afraid.  Mind you, it’s not about the music, which is stellar as our dear friend JOHN 3:16’s hellscapes never disappoint, nor the elegantly rhythmic grooves of EISENLAGER, who pairs magnificently well with Philippe Gerber’s lush compositions.  This EP is more to Continue Reading

Dust Of Time – The Waking Hours

Greek composer Manolis Fasoulakis (Dust Of Time) joins with the Last American Poet, Shane Beck for an album which deftly combines Fasoulakis’ ethereal sonic landscapes with the haunting poetry of Beck.  If you are into bands like Dead Can Dance, Lycia, Zahmia Lehmanni-era SPK or bands of this caliber, The Continue Reading

SoRIAH with Metamorphic Mindphase – Black Ceremony ∞Yahualihui∞

Around 25 years ago, I had the privilege of tour-managing the English band Sol Invictus through a tour of the West Coast.  It was a fun experience, and I’ve managed to keep some form of contact with a couple of the lads over the years.  There was one instance where Continue Reading

KABRA – The Return of the Cambrian Period

KABRA are another discovery from the near-flawless Reverse Alignment Records out of Sweden associated with our friends at Unexplained Sounds Group, themselves possessing exquisite taste when it comes to dark ambient and drone music.  We know nothing about them (him, her?) except for the music, but what music it is!  Continue Reading

Gûldur – Despair

Gûldur is part of a wonderful collective based in Porto Alegre, Brazil, a place I would like to visit before I rest my bones in this Earth.  Some of the bands and labels associated with this scene produce consistently good experimental, noise, dungeon synth and other related genres, which brings Continue Reading