Skullflower – Fucked On A Pile Of CorpsesLabel: Cold SpringFormat: CD, AlbumCountry: UKReleased: 27 Jun 2011Style: Black Metal, Noise, Drone The most remorseless, brutal Skullflower ever! Alternating between granular lo-fi primitive rock and granular lo-fi primitive Power Electronics, this taut disc is a chain mail glove of hate to any lazy minds who’ve tainted the air with describing Skullflower as ‘psychedelic’. But that’s not to say this is an all out total assault. There are also moments of tender acoustic balladry, its just that they don’t exist. The remorseless brutal sound is primitive, but as detailed and rich as a blood soaked medieval canvas, somewhere betwixt The Rita and Clandestine…
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Z’EV – Eleven Mirrors To The Light
Z’EV – Eleven Mirrors To The LightLabel: Cold Spring – CSR196CDFormat: CD, AlbumCountry: UKReleased: 28 Dec 2015Style: Industrial, Drone Z’EV completes an alchemical exploration of Concord and Dissonance that began with the cosmological equations of Sum Things and then clasped the elemental quintet of air, water, fire, earth and spirit in A Handful of Elements. Now, with Eleven Mirrors to the Light, Z’EV plays with the intersection of light and dark, catching waves of luminescence between prisms and mirrors that fragments particles into shimmering washes of sound. Z’EV’s trademark percussion transforms into glistening soundscapes and drones, one part subterranean and another subatomic.
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Common Eider, King Eider – Extinction
Common Eider, King Eider – ExtinctionLabel: Cold Spring – CSR219CDFormat: CD, AlbumCountry: UKReleased: 11 Apr 2016Style: Drone, Dark Ambient, Doom Metal A new ritual from this long running doom/drone/ambient collective, offering up modern manifestations of ancient energies, channelled into smouldering swathes of ceremonial hypnosis and explosive gouts of blood-red radiance. Extinction is an extended ceremonial rite conducted below ground at the Wisp House (R.I.P.). A song suite of psychedelic devotionals assembled from reverb drenched industrial drones, billowing clouds of metallic throb, and churning, rhythmic bombast. Fields of ghostly incantations suspended in the ether, draped over metallic murmurs and moaning melancholia. The low end rumble of monk-like chants beneath the soft…
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The Soils Bleeds Black – May The Blood Of Many A Valiant Knight Be Avenged
The Soils Bleeds Black – May The Blood Of Many A Valiant Knight Be AvengedLabel: Twilight RecordsFormat: CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: ArgentinaReleased: 17 June 2016Style: Medieval, Folk Limited re-issue of the band’s third album, thematically based on the tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. THE SOIL BLEEDS BLACKs third album explores the early experimentation with authentic instruments, incorporating percussion, guitar and various woodwinds and whistles. Immaturely conceived, the album maintains a farcical and theatrical approach projecting its own entertaining and enchanting character. Includes four bonus tracks including a rendering of the celebrated Irish folk song, The March of Brian Boru.
