Tag Svart Records
As the sun streams through the all-be-it, very dirty glass doors, that act as my portal to the outside world, all seems well with the world, despite the presence of a global pandemic, a despotic lunatic launching a war on… Continue Reading →
8 years since their last album and 6 since ‘The Gothic Tapes’, this shall be their third album. It’s also a concept album with the subject matter being the 10-year winter that started in 535, including the bubonic plague that… Continue Reading →
In the northern hemisphere, autumn is the time of the year when nature is at its most colourful, its most friendly. It’s neither extremely hot nor extremely cold, and there are field crops and fruit aplenty. Earth looks like a… Continue Reading →
Within any music industry, year in and year out there are endless lists of “rising stars”, “ones to watch”, or “the sound of (insert year here)”. The vast majority of these acts will be the darlings of journalists more pretentious… Continue Reading →
There always seems to be a moment with me when a Skepticism album just becomes the world. Sometimes, as with Alloy, it is literally the first notes, that exhalation as it breathes life into the room. Other times, as with… Continue Reading →
Is it really 4 years since I reviewed “The Horse and Other Weird Tales” by Finns Jess and the Ancient Ones? Of course time stands for Jess and chums – somewhere around 1967 in a haze of patchouli, flowers and electric kool aid. Exactly how it… Continue Reading →
Throat sound like they should be some awful metalcore, sample driven, knuckleheaded cagoule wearing, tight jeans wearing blot on the heavy music horizon band, but luckily for me (and you) they’re not that at all. In fact, what these glorious… Continue Reading →
Okay, I’m on the internet, and I know it can be unforgiving, so let me get the “elephant in the room” out of the way: Bobby Liebling has done some shite stuff in the past, and there is no denying… Continue Reading →
Inspired by sci-fi Italian horror films and soundtracks, La Morte Viene Dallo Spazio are a space ritual project on a “free-form journey”. Psychedelic vibes and obscurity would seem to be the bywords here. Mystical and mysterious is how this work… Continue Reading →
Paga from Sweden are Pelle and Gottfrid Ahman – the latter being ex vocalist of In Solitude and the band have been picked by Khvost of Grave Pleasures/ Beastmilk to be released on his Secret Trees imprint via Svart Records. The accompanying press release mentions the… Continue Reading →
Dark Buddha Rising come with some reputation. These “dark underlords of psychedelic drone” attract words like occult and spiritual. Looking back on the reviews by different writers, they’ve always made a deep and positive impression. It’s my turn now. “Sunyaga”… Continue Reading →
Kris Clayton started writing new material for Camel of Doom, his avant-garde stoner project. On realising that things were getting even more leftfield he roped in his former Esoteric bandmate Greg Chandler. The pair drafted in Tom Vallely in to drum and he hopped on the… Continue Reading →