Hailing from the jungles of Kolkata, Aparthiva Raktadhara presents us with their first full length offering, titled Adyapeeth Maranasamhita (আদ্যাপীঠ মরণসংহিতা ) a hellish and forceful blackened death metal album. This is coming off of their previous release, Agyat Ishvar, which shared many of the same qualities of this LP. Intense blast beats, death metal…
Hailing from the Nashville underground, the experimental duo known as Skin Tension combine their talents with UK based noise artist Anesthetised Culture Club, a combination first featured on their epic album known as Omni. They came together in that track to create a claustrophobic and tight track that compliments the rest of that radical album….
Hailing from Turkey, Archurahl presents us with their third EP release, Albtraum, a dark and gloomy album with some viscous raw black metal strewn in between moody and ambient synth passages. With this being the band’s third release, its clear that this is the one man band at their strongest. Combining the gloomy and bleak…
Hailing from the hollows of Kentucky, Brood in Black presents us with their blasphemous offering, Black Unholy Mass, a raw and blasphemous assault on the senses. Grinding guitar riffs, harsh vocals, and abrasive drums is what to expect from this release. Its certainly a spawn of the filthy underground. This is a straight forward release….
Presenting us with their debut demo, Langor, who hails from Brazil, brings us their raw black metal approach known as Inferno Astral. Three hard hitting raw black metal tracks with a very heavy influence from the Norwegian second-wave. Taking yet another page from that old dusty-tome, Langor really shows off their black metal skills with…
Hailing from the legendary metal land of Brazil, comes DeathSlaüghter and their newest release, Passing Through the Valley of the Sodomites, a heavy, fast paced, blackend death metal band that harkens back to Brazilian metal bands of old. Heavy, meaty riffs, chunky drums, and demonic vocals are whats to expect here, a textbook approach with…
Rising forth from the murky depths of the ocean, Sunken Basilica presents its self as the latest addition to the Moonlight Cypress Archetypes. A avant-garde dungeon synth release that takes heavy inspiration from classical compositions from the likes of, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Elliott Carter, Charles Ives, and Henryk Gorecki, create for a very sophisticated…
Hailing from the US, Strixskog brings us their latest demo release titled Dark Age Funeral Dreams. Much like the previous release, combining black metal fundamentals with epic dungeon synth that takes you to the lands of yore, this release however takes a much darker approach, sporting a much more raw and compact approach that gives…
Hailing from Slovakia, performance artist Nicholas Wintzler brings us a handful of different musical releases over the past year, all with their own concept and artistic ideas behind them. This one in particular, Sojuz Šrek Párty is one that stood the most out to me. There’s something charming about the approach behind this album, clearly…
Personally, I’ve always found it hard to appreciate music that is pure noise. Something about the lack of structure and form makes it hard for my mind to wrap itself around. But, every once and a while there are a few releases of this experimental genre that digs in my brain like a nasty ear…