COLOSSLOTH – Heathen NeedlesLabel: Cold Spring – CSR235CDFormat: CD, AlbumCountry: UKReleased: 08 Nov 2017Style: Industrial, Power Electronics, Experimental On his second album, Colossloth continues his esoteric sonic crusade of volatile yet absorbing audio textures. Cold electronica, with swathes of rhythmic power noise and industrial harshness, tempered with penetrating song structures. Eleven tracks of austere, reflective and exploratory electronics for journeys made into the hidden realms underpinning daily life, spanning the bridge between gnosis and praxis. The dissonance of opposites falling into elemental synthesis with a sound and approach influenced from the past, present and future, letting us remain anachronistic yet temporal voyeurs in the abyss evoked forth.
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Urze De Lume – As Árvores Estão Secas E Não Têm Folhas
Urze De Lume – As Árvores Estão Secas E Não Têm FolhasLabel: Equilibrium Music – EQM045Format: CD, AlbumCountry: PortugalReleased: 10 Mar 2018Style: Folk, Neofolk On their third album, URZE DE LUME turn inwards for a soothing journey which illustrates not only departure, but also homecoming, meticulously setting to music memories imbued with both nostalgia and longing. “…The trees have grown dry and bare, as have I…” On their third album, URZE DE LUME turn inwards for a soothing journey which illustrates not only departure, but also homecoming, meticulously setting to music memories imbued with both nostalgia and longing. “As Árvores Estão Secas e Não Têm Folhas” is the second and…
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Jotunspor – Gleipnirs Smeder
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…
