Jotunspor – Gleipnirs Smeder Label: Cold Spring – CSR244CDFormat: CD, Album, Reissue Country: UKReleased: 10 Nov 2017Style: Black Metal King Ov Hell (Gorgoroth, Sahg, God Seed) and Kvitrafn (aka Einar Selvik of Wardruna, Skuggsjá, Gorgoroth) teamed up and formed Jotunspor (“tracks/traces of giants”). Musically, “Gleipnirs Smeder” binds grim and primitive black metal together with elements of noisy dark-ambient, while the concept of Jotunspor is strongly founded in the old Norse cults and beliefs. “Glepnirs Smeder”, or The Forgers of Gleipnir, explores some of the incidents surrounding the creation of the world and Ragnarok – the ultimate doom / transformation. The chain Gleipnir, its forgers from the depths of Svartalvheim and…
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Stromstad – New Devoted Human
Stromstad – New Devoted HumanLabel: Malignant Records – TUMORCD114Format: CD, Album, StereoCountry: USReleased: 08 Dec 2017Style: Dark Ambient, Experimental, Industrial Few names imply mind-bending, forward thinking heavy electronics like Finnish stalwarts STROM.ec, and with every release, they seem to further stretch the boundaries of what can be a pretty rigid genre, and navigate realms never before seen or heard. Similar things can be said of Norwegian atmospheric heavy weight and Malignant staple, Kristoffer Oustad, whose particular strain of dark ambient and post-industrial soundscapes are incredibly dynamic, at times surreal and cinematic, other times more driving and heavy, but all with a recognizable, highly emotive touch. Put the two together, and…
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Shock Frontier – Tumult
Shock Frontier – TumultLabel: Malignant Records – TumorCD110Format: CD, AlbumCountry: USReleased: 01 Dec 2017Style: Industrial, Dark Ambient, Noise With his dark ambient project Apócrýphos, Robert Kozletsky has shown a proven ability at creating multi-layered and highly detailed soundscapes. Working as a duo alongside Kyle Carney, he takes that skill and applies it to his death industrial alter-ego, Shock Frontier, carving out a sound residing somewhere between the “new wave” of American power electronics (The Vomit Arsonist, Steel Hook Prostheses) and the classic sound of Cold Meat Industry (Deutsch Nepal, Megaptera). “Tumult” is a world enveloped in a perpetual haze of post-apocalyptic soot and radioactive ash, where deadening percussion, reverberating factory…
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Miazma – Miazma
Miazma – MiazmaLabel: Dark Vinyl RecordsFormat: CD, AlbumCountry: GermanyReleased: 19 Jan 2018Style: Gothic Rock Miazma has, in the present form, existed since the fall of ’99. It originally started out back in early ’97 as a techno duo consisting of Kristian Olofsson and Tomas Tornevall, but due to the difference in musical influences Tomas left the project to pursue a solo career. Miazma has since the split evolved towards a darker style of music but remnance of the techno from which Miazma was based can still be heard in many of the songs… The first example of this new sound was made available with the release of ”Judgement Day” in…
