Black Earth – Diagrams Of A Hidden OrderLabel: Black Plagve – Infect18Format: CD, Mini-Album, Limited EditionCountry: USReleased: 02 Jul 2016Style: Industrial, Noise, Black Metal Debut digital recording for Spain’s cryptic collective Black Earth that continues the path laid down by 2014’s well received “A Cryptic Howl of Morbid Truth” cassette (Graceless Recordings). “Diagrams of a Hidden Order” presents us with three tracks showcasing their turbulent strain of blackened noise, that stretches the boundaries of black metal, death metal and dark ambient respectively, thus amplifying these genres into darker territory few have explored. Within the turbulence of chaos and bleakness, there exists fleeting form and (un)structure that is shattered and rebuilt…
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Beyond Enclosure – Dungeon Of Total Void
Beyond Enclosure – Dungeon Of Total VoidLabel: Malignant Records – TumorCD98Format: CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: USReleased: 12 Aug 2016Style: Industrial, Noise, Power Electronics Prominent S&M inspired electronics is not a new theme, but it has been a long time since such a vital voice has arisen. Enter Beyond Enclosure. With their debut recording Dungeon of Total Void, this Portuguese duo fronted by Samantha Diabolik with the assistance of Andre Coelho (of the now defunct Sektor 304 and operating here as “The Analyst”), have assembled an imposing homage to discomfort, pain, and pleasure. Built around a foundation of subversive and deviant themes, the eight tracks here undulate and throb with malfunctioning…
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Gnawed – Pestilence Beholden
Gnawed – Pestilence Beholden Label: Malignant Records – TUMORCD97Format: CD, Album Country: USReleased: Sep 2016Style: Industrial, Power Electronics Since its inception in 2009, Grant Richardson’s Gnawed has propelled itself into the top tier of heavy electronics and death industrial with a stream of high quality releases over a variety of formats. For his 3rd full length disc, Pestilence Beholden, the template set forth by prior works remains intact, but is dragged down into an even darker space, this time enriched by added layers of foreboding atmospherics and foggy ambience. Make no mistake, this is Gnawed through and through, but Pestilence Beholden is even more sculpted and refined than before, finding…
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Nordvargr – The Secret Barbarous Names
Nordvargr – The Secret Barbarous NamesLabel: Malignant Records – TUMORCD102Format: CD, EP, ReissueCountry: USReleased: 20 Jan 2017Style: Dark Ambient Active since the late ‘80s as a member of MZ.412 and Pouppée Fabrikk, few names within the realm of dark industrial and blackened ambient carry more weight and presence than Sweden’s mighty Nordvargr. Though side projects Muskel and Körperwelten have been released on Malignant, The Secret Barbarous Names is the first solo recording done for the label, and Nordvargr’s first physical release since 2013’s The Dromopoda Transmissions on Old Europa Café. A vocal based work inspired by the Draconian and Typhonian traditions, the title refers to the hidden meanings of the…
