2013 : Merzbild Format : Cassette As with any genre of music I saturate myself with, over time I become a little disillusioned. Any regular reader also knows I ramble on about why I don’t write, while writing of course. Industrial music and all of it’s sub-genres has had the floodgates wide open for several years…
2012 : Aurora Australis Records Format : Digipak CD As you’ve probably recognized of late, reviews have been few and far between and for the most part I deny any inquires for new submissions, but enough about me. After being approached by the Australian label Aurora Australis and a quick google noting they specialized in…
2012 : Lascivious Aesthetics Format: 10″ vinyl If there ever was a match made in the Ninth Circle, this is probably it. Paired for this 10″ are Corephallism, the solo project of Shame Michael Broderick who some of you might recognize as a member of Boston Noise maniacs Twodeadsluts Onegoodfuck and the seemingly everywhere at…
Show Notes Welter In Thy Blood : To Bind With Nine Fold Chain Through The Fields of Mourning CD Evil, noisy, blackened DOOM project featuring members of A Taste For Decay, Pro-Death, Slaughtered Lamb & StemCell Research Project. Suicide yourself. Encoffination : Eucharist of Bone And Flame Ritual Ascension Beyond Flesh CD Crushing Death Doom featuring memebers…
2010 : Triskele Recordings Format : CD Compilation recordings are always a hit or miss affair, themed comps even more so, but this surprising release from the newly formed Triskele Recordings label definitely falls on the former. The album is collection of thirteen US artists from the Industrial and Neofolk genres. Spread the Plague…
2010 : Steinklang Format : CD Anyone who’s been a regular customer or fan of the Austrian Steinklang record label knows that they’ve released some amazing sampler CD’s over the years. Keeping with that tradition is the “Pagan Folk And Apocalyptic Psychedelia” series. This release focuses more on the wide ranging Folk genre, whether metal, dark,…
2010 : Shadowgraph Records Format : digipak CD WITB is a project of John Paul Whetzel and Darea Plantin of Pro-Death and The Slaughtered Lamb with the addition of one Eric Burns on drums. For this incarnation, they incorporate elements of Black Metal, Ritual Ambient and lots of molasses in winter slow Funeral Doom. The disc…
Mechanoise Labs : 2007 Format : CD Necromondo is rumoured to be the project of one mysterious individual by the name of Tirdad CK, and as far as I know this is his only release besides a 3″ mCD which accompanied the first 50 copies of the full length sold through the label, Mechanoise Labs.…
Syzmic Records : 2008 Format : CDr While you may or may not recognize the Metaconqueror moniker, if you’re frequenting this site you are probably familiar with the man behind the project, John Stillings. He’s one half of the Texas Industrial heavyweights Steel Hook Prostheses. How does this project differ from that? Those differences are…
Percht: 2007 Format: 2 x CD [+ 3” CD w/Box Set] As comps come and go, they almost always miss the mark for me, one or two good tracks sandwiched between several sub-par or god awful ones. More often than not, they’re just commercials for the label releasing it. Occasionally you run across those centered…
Malignant Records : 2008 Format : CD To be honest, I usually find anything in the sub-genres of industrial music labeled as Martial or Neoclassical at bit overbearing and boring. Most of the time it sounds too digital or overtly computer driven for me to take seriously. There’s creativity and then there’s mouse-maestros who really…
Athanor : 2006 Format : Digipak CD This one is a few years old, but only recently discovered by me and worthy of a few words. Les Sentiers Conflictuels is a Dark Ambient/Neo-Classical project of Philippe Kam and if you’ve never heard of Andrew King you should remedy that straight away. He has a few…