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A Death Cinematic – Corrosions of Traveled Daydreams
It’s no big secret that I have long been a champion for the creations of A Death Cinematic, and it seems to have become a biannual occurrence that I would find myself sitting down to my desk to write...
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Aidan Baker & Plurals – Glass Crocodile Medicine
Not to be consumed by those prone to anxiety, or afflicted with low levels of patience. The formation of such an album is a strange thing, completely new to me. This is a Latitudes release, an idea...
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Cody Drasser – The Fate of Things
The Peacock Window label is young, but the approach they are taking seems to be well planned and prominently designed. Dark instrumental music on pro-pressed CD-R is the format, colorful and consistent...
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The Gray Field Recordings – Nature Desires Nature
I have a habitual tendency to liken music like that created by The Gray Field Recordings to another world that exists within and without our own, something that I consistently seem to refer to as the...
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Gates – Eintraum
There is a small insert in this cassette featuring quotations from Jorge Luis Borges. At first, the connection seems trite, an attempt to elevate one’s art by forcing a link to a canonical literary...
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Double Feature: Treefingers – Op. I + Op. II: An Endless End
Shadows cast long as the sun peaks above the plain. An empty pasture illumined from the East signifies morning in any of the beautiful places in the world, and “Shimmers” can be heard adrift on the...
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Kwaidan – Make all the Hell of Dark Metal Bright
The sun should be up, but there isn’t an errant ray of light cutting through this dense fog. As you step away from the safety of your home, you feel apprehensive. Danger is singing its tune in the...
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David Tagg – Leaving this Planet
At times, it’s a hard pill to swallow when a favorite artist decides to change direction, even rather slightly. David Tagg has been prolifically releasing micro-editions of his incredible, reverent,...
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Heathen Harvest “Samhainwork II” album available soon + October Obituaries
In keeping with the finest annual traditions, and of those which we are setting ourselves at Heathen Harvest, next month will once again see another all-new Samhain release. Many will have felt the...
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[Music] Out Now Via Impulsy Stetoskopu: Minoy –“Treatment Resistant / The...
Treatment Resistant 1993 (unreleased) “Simply put, this is one of the best noise-drone albums Minoy ever did! it is minimalist but always fluxing, always superb. Original album finished on Apr. 23,...
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Double Feature: At the Head of the Woods – At Sunrise + At Sunset
The rising and setting of the sun is a profound time for any observer of nature. In the European Pagan tradition, it is when Sol retreats for the forthcoming night, journeying through the underworld to...
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Albatwitch – Only Dead Birds Sing over the Graves of Fallen Kings
Albatwitch is yet another band containing the work of timeMOTHeye, and for simplicity sake has been reviewed alongside Moth Masque for what will soon be very obvious reasons (see the review here). You...
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Comoros – Tips and Islands
Comoros is the married duo of Adam and Jen Melinn, operating out of Pennsylvania and serving up warm, heaping gobs of space ambient-esque post-rock. On Tips and Islands, the musicians prove equally...
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Korperschwache – Black Dust
Korperschwache, the duo formed by two members who go by the mysterious semi-anonymous monikers RKF and Doktor Omega, operate out of the land of intense heat, dust, and drought of Austin, Texas. It is...
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Nemorensis – The Lady In the Lake
Through black metal’s divergent history, few styles have remained true to the obscurity of their roots while managing to add something new to a conservative genre. Often new advances (for good or ill)...
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Plurals – Bugenès Melissae
My first introduction to Plurals was on Glass Crocodile Medicine, the collaborative release with Aidan Baker of Nadja fame, a release that I gave a very positive review. It turns out, that in some...
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Romain de Ferron – Couvent de la Tourette
A few weeks ago, I was chatting with Romain Barbot, one of the three heads behind the French tape label BLWBCK, about one of their releases, namely Romain de Ferron’s Couvent de la Tourette – an album...
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Strom Noir – Urban Blues
Drone music is an unwieldy beast. In less skilled hands, it meanders aimlessly, smacks of self-indulgence, and prompts listeners not ordinarily considered a drone fan (myself included) to reach for the...
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Heirdrain – Forsaken
Heirdrain is truly an enigmatic artist. With a complete lack of biographical information readily available online, and despite a discography as large as some individual’s music collections, one would...
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Heathen Harvest’s Best of 2014
2014 seemed to be the most challenging year for our journalists to select albums from. Much discussion and consideration was given to choosing just three works to showcase what represented 2014 for...
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