Alternative 4 – The BrinkLabel: Prophecy Productions ?– Pro 128-2Format: CD, AlbumCountry: GermanyReleased: 2012Genre: RockStyle: Doom Metal, Prog Rock Alternative 4 is Duncan Patterson’s (ex-Anathema, ex-Antimatter, Íon) latest brainchild. With the band name derived from the eponymous Anathema album from 1998, the musical and atmospheric direction of this band is given: a solid rock foundation enriched with painful piano and string arrangements, sometimes on the verge of ambient music, sometimes offering the big influence of the rather dark and abysmal side of Pink Floyd. All this can already be witnessed on last year’s debut album «The Brink» which now receives its re-release to mark the beginning of Alternative 4’s and…
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Free As Dead – Tombeau Vital
Free As Dead – Tombeau VitalLabel: 4iB Records – 4iB CD/1215/019, Decimation Sociale – noneFormat: CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: SingaporeReleased: 04 Feb 2016Style: Experimental, Industrial, Noise, Abstract Free As Dead is another project of prolific French Harsh Noise Wall artist Romain Perrot, who deviates from his other known projects like walled noise acts Vomir and guitar noise Falot. Free As Dead builds it’s disturbing ambience with harsh funeral organ noise, and together with the collaborative efforts of Andy Bolus (of Evil Moisture) Tombeau Vital creates an almost soundtrack-like horror story revolving around Perrot’s (pervasive) alter ego of a B-Grade masked monster and his doll captive. This is a conceptually heavy…
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Shinkiro / 蜃気楼 – Archive: Volumes I – III
Shinkiro / 蜃気楼 – Archive: Volumes I – IIILabel: Old Captain – OCCD42Format: 2 × CD, Album, Compilation, Limited EditionCountry: UkraineReleased: 13 Jun 2018Style: Dark Ambient, Experimental, Industrial Shinkiro is a dark ambient project from Japan, formed in 2003 by Manabu Hiramoto who dwells in organic isolation full of pulsating drones and elegiac solaris ambiances. Based on the old recording sessions in 2003 – 2007 this release captures the darkest and most beautiful moments of Shinkiro’s music: low-key synth textures merged with rhythmic cadences and slight distortions gradually unfolding roaming melodies, magnetic and cold undercurrents, ethereal epiphanies and ever present longing for the unattainable abyss. Three early unreleased albums assembled…
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The Toroidh Funeral Orchestra
The Toroidh Funeral OrchestraLabel: Baljuw RecordsFormat: CD, AlbumReleased: 2025Genre: ElectronicStyle: Dark Ambient, Industrial, Neofolk, Martial After years of silence, Toroidh returns with a somber new chapter — a fusion of dark ambient textures, martial industrial rhythms, and the distant echoes of funeral marches. Rooted in forest solitude and sharpened by a deep contempt for human folly, this album explores the fleeting nature of freedom — a concept always just out of reach, always reshaped by history and hubris. Bleak. Reflective. Uncompromising. Tracklist:1. Re-Entry2. The New West3. Heathen Echoes I4. Steady Decline5. Freedom Is a Fragile Thing6. Heathen Echoes II7. Vådaskott8. They Never Learn9. Cortège Funèbre Recorded and composed in Spring 2025 by…
