From the release’s Bandcamp site: “To create their first collaborative full-length “Lachrymorph”, guitarist Petar Petkov and drummer Bartosz Borzeszkowski embarked on a journey to the Unknown – both physically and creatively. Having successfully collaborated in the studio (check out “Scape I”, released in “Vanishing Standards II”), the artists felt the Continue Reading
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Bandcamp Radio: October 23, 2026 – Fabio Frizzi
Italian soundtrack composer Fabio Frizzi, best known in America for his soundtracks to Zombi 2 and City of the Living Dead, is featured today on Bandcamp’s metal show, even though his work leans more toward progressive rock. Still, it’s such a pleasure to hear that he is very much active these days at the age Continue Reading
Fr. Dionysios Tabakis – Paradise Metal
Eastern Orthodox priests and monastics can be pretty cool at times. There are quite a few instances of monks who are or were musicians, balancing that world with the Christian one. My first monastery visit in (North) Macedonia many years ago included a stay at St. Dmitrij Markov Monastery, where Continue Reading
Albert Kuvezin And Yat-Kha – Re-Covers
Albert Kuvezin’s legendary band Yat-Kha is one of the few in Russia that blends industrial rock and khöömei, the traditional throat-singing technique that has similarities to music in Mongolia proper and even Tibet in a modified form. In this album, the band covers 14 songs, including tracks originally performed by Joy Division, Led Continue Reading
Allerseelen – Anubis (with Faye)
Allerseelen is a friend of the blog. Gerhard Petak, an Austrian martial industrial musician who is also a journalist and researcher of esoteric subjects under the imprint Aorta. This track is something wholly different, sounding more like a post-punk-meets-metal track than his usual (great) fare. He collaborates with Algerian singer Continue Reading
SUNN O))) – sunn O))) (SP1685)
SUNN O))) will have a new album available on April 3, 2026. There is only one track available to sample, but if this is an indication of what the whole album will be like, it will make for brutal listening. I’m looking forward to it, though I have a feeling Continue Reading
TFNRSH – Book of Circles
TFNRSH is a band from Tübingen, Germany, that plays stoner rock with touches of progressive rock.
Layma Azur – La Fruta Perfecta, Vol. 1
Our beloved friends Layma Azur have released a magnificent concept album that balances progressive rock and metal beautifully. This is the first of three, so I am looking forward to the other two parts coming out. To Santiago and Amandine, you never cease to amaze me!
Black Sabbath – Iron Man (1970)
John “Ozzy” Osbourne has passed away. This marks the end of an era for me, as well as for many friends and fans of his music. Metal music was at its finest when Black Sabbath was at its peak, and it will take someone truly exceptional to fill the void Continue Reading
Zeresh – The End
Over the past few days, I’ve been organizing music I found on a hard drive to enjoy on the hi-fi stereo this weekend. Some of the files are 20 years old, which is hard to believe, and among them are many old 1970s acid-folk and proto-metal albums. Our beloved friends Continue Reading