Hailing from the Bozeman underground comes a blackened doom collection named Galvanist. With a strong sense of atmosphere and an ear for the heavy, these guys are able to craft serpentine like guitar riffs that slither through your mind and constricts your brain in its tight embrace. This is their debut release, Connection, which sports…
Crawling forth from the Montana underground, Ulm emerges as a cold, frantic, and unhinged black metal duo. With the prolific Edward Longo handling guitar, bass, and vocals, and the enigmatic Chris Navarro delivering punishing drums, they’ve crafted a raw, ear-piercing sound with intriguing musical twists rarely heard in this genre. This release dives right into…
Returning from the cold Russian wastes comes Черновство (Chernovstvo) a raw black metal outfit that brings us back to the old days. All of their releases to date all have something in common. Raw, cold, unforgiving, and honoring the ancestors. Armed with runic magic, this latest release is their strongest and cleanest to date. This…
Armed with a Casio CT-615, a microphone, and an imagination, Nicholas Wintzler, a Slovakian artist and musician, is able to conjure colorful, child-like images of emotions, both good and bad, as well as spin heady and psychedelic tales in his native Slovak language all on his latest release, Sú to iba pesničky. Much of the…
Thumos returns from the dark depths bringing ancient artifacts from the lost civilization of Atlantis. On this release, three epic tracks bring you through the story of Atlantis, providing epic instrumentation not too different from past releases, but sounding as strong as ever (previous reviews 1, 2). Like with previous releases, this album takes inspiration…
Hailing from the mist shrouded lands of China comes an artist who presents us with his own personal take on traditional Chinese music. Their name roughly translates to ‘Brocade Zither’, a zither being a traditional string instrument commonly found across many different Eastern cultures, with the Chinese zither being the guqin, which you’ll be hearing…
Hailing from the small island country of Puerto Rico comes Falgar an expression of a longing for a time that’s been long forgotten. Reaching back into his Spaniard European roots, the sole member behind Falgar started with humble raw black metal with a depressive stint to it, sporting a raw and harsh sound that slowly…
From the ancient mountain tops of Shimla within the western Himalayas comes the musical sorcerer known as Harul. His music channels the powerful and secretive essence of his homeland, where the mountains live and breath and alongside her people. His latest offering titled in English, Bharari Ghat is a powerful album with esoteric qualities that…
Hailing from the Arctic regions of Sweden, Torbjörn Ömalm gave us his sixth and final album released under his own name titled Peiva. This is a reflection of a day in the life within the circumpolar regions, from the ethereal in-between stages of awake and sleeping, to the cold realities a day can bring you…
Hailing from the mysteriously mystic mountain tops of the Western Himalayas in Northern India comes Primaevus, an Eldritch force formed by Ankit Sinha and Harul Vinay. By invoking ancient ancestoral spirits, the pair have conjured epic and somber ballads that invoke esoteric imagery of primalistic origins. With the help provided from the talented Alex Pfister…