Hey! Everywhere I turn, the whole internet is buzzing about Venom Prison.
So let’s talk about Venom Prison.
Venom Prison – Primeval (Prosthetic Records, 09 October 2020)
Venom Prison – Erebos (Century Media Records, 04 February 2022)
Category Archives: New Releases
Lys – Silent Woods (2021); Negativa – 04 (2022)
Hey, Happy Monday and Happy Last Day of January to you!
If you’ve got a few moments to spare, I’d like to share a couple albums — the first of which was released near the end of last year (and was the first solo record by a member of Italian ambient black metal band Enisum), while the second was just released at the end of last week by a single-member black metal project from Spain.
Lys – Silent Woods (Avantgarde Music, 29 October 2021)
Negativa – 04 (vinyl Mystískaos / Dissociative Visions, CD Nebular Carcoma, 28 January 2022 – US, 11 February EU)
Cosmic Order – Inner Temple; Mur – Cut the Rivers Vein (2022)
Good afternoon! We’ve reached the middle of another week, and I don’t know about you but I’ve been feeling groggy as hell. Stupid allergies.
My to-do list tells me I’ve got two albums to share with you, which are very different from each other sound-wise, but which are both scheduled to come out this Friday. So let’s dive in.
Describing the advance single from their album, the first band said “The main idea was to suggest a dualism and a complementarity between Eros and Thanatos from the atomic perspective: is the narrator talking about cell fusion or nuclear fission? The radiant and bright chorus opposes and supports the abrasive and obscure verses. This dual osmosis is what everyone has in their own Inner Temple”
And then the second musical entity shared the following: “The vision for, and the writing process for this next Mur album has been an absurdist wind. Conquest and transformation. Plotting particle and light into wisdom and thought. Is there real knowledge in flowing water? Can intent organize the stars into action?”
One thing I can say for sure, I am not awake enough for this shit. But let’s give these a listen anyhow…
Cosmic Order – Inner Temple (Argonauta Records, 28 January 2022)
Mur – Cut the Rivers Vein (self-released, 28 January 2022)
Bog Wizard – From the Mire (2020), Miasmic Purple Smoke (2021)
Ok y’all, it’s Monday… time for some nerd shit.
Dungeons & Dragons has been called the most effective introduction to the occult in the history of Man.
It is a fantasy role-playing game that teaches demonology, witchcraft, voodoo, murder, blasphemy, suicide, assassination, insanity, sex, perversion, homosexuality, prostitution, Satan worship, gambling, barbarism, cannibalism, sadism, desecration, demon summoning, necromantics, divination, and many other occultic themes… all in living color.
Ready to get started? Roll for initiative…
Bog Wizard – From the Mire (self-released, 03 July 2020)
Bog Wizard – Miasmic Purple Smoke (self-released, 03 December 2021)
Swarm of Spheres – Invest in Your Death (2013), Brother Take Five (2021); Cell Press – S/T (2020)
It’s Friday, and we’re firing up the way-back machine. Got a lot of ground to cover, so there’s no time to waste… Here we go!
Swarm of Spheres – Invest in Your Death (self-released, 18 October 2013)
Swarm of Spheres – Brother, Take Five (No Why Records, 15 October 2021)
Cell Press – Cell Press (Ancient Temple Recordings / No Funeral, 27 November 2020)
Stone Machine Electric – Inexplicable Vibrations (2020); Mud Spencer – Fuzz Soup (2022)
Happy New Year! As promised, we’re finally starting to dive into some new releases that are coming out. Today I also wanted to catch up on a slightly older release that I missed writing about the first time around, because — well, because 2020. Time to get fuzzy…
Stone Machine Electric – The Inexplicable Vibrations of Frequencies Within the Cosmic Netherworld (Desert Records, 04 December 2020)
Mud Spencer – Fuzz Soup (Argonauta Records, 21 January 2022)
Kite – Currents; So Hideous – None But a Pure Heart Can Sing (2021)
Good afternoon, friends; Happy Monday and Happy New Year to you all!
Now that my Top 21 of 2021 list is complete (it was published right as the clock struck midnight on New Years Eve, so, I’m proud to say, this has been the first time in quite a long time — maybe like nine years? — that the year-end list was ready AT the actual end of the year!), I’m setting my sights on checking out all the new 2022 releases that have been pouring in, so I can start sharing them with all you lovely people.
But as always, there’s still a bunch of cleanup to do, plenty of releases from last year (as well as from years past) that we’ve missed discussing, and I’d like to start today by offering two of those for your listening pleasure.
Kite – Currents (Majestic Mountain Records, 08 October 2021)
So Hideous – None But a Pure Heart Can Sing (Silent Pendulum Records, 03 December 2021)
Devoid of Thought – Outer World Graves; Ad Infinitum – Hypnagogic Conveyance (2021)
Hello out there, readers! Today our mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly grab our headphones and listen to some cosmic death metal and cosmic black metal!
Devoid of Thought – Outer World Graves (Everlasting Spew Records, 27 August 2021)
Ad Infinitum – Hypnagogic Conveyance (self-released, 13 December 2021)
Superlynx – New Moon (2019), Electric Temple + Solstice (2021)
Hello there! Just in time for Christmas — well, the eve of Christmas Eve — I’d like to gift your ears with some carols performed by a MacBethan trio of weyward musicians…
Superlynx – New Moon (Dark Essence Records, 15 March 2019)
Superlynx – Electric Temple (Dark Essence Records, 16 April 2021)
Superlynx – Solstice (Dark Essence Records, 08 December 2021)
Prehistoric Pigs – Everything is Good (2015), The Fourth Moon (2021)
All right, y’all — today I’ll be treating you to two heaping helpings of fuzzed-out instrumental goodness, courtesy of la famiglia italiana who constitute the trio Prehistoric Pigs.
Prehistoric Pigs – Everything is Good (The Smoking Goat Records, 26 April 2015)
Prehistoric Pigs – The Fourth Moon (Go Down Records, 26 November 2021)
Valley of Steel 