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Album & EP Reviews K 

Kimi Kärki ‘The Bone Of My Bones’ CD/LP 2013

7th January 20143rd September 2019 Calum Darroch 2013, Acoustic, Calum Darroch, CD, Dark, Folk, Kimi Kärki, LP, Review, Svart Records, The Bone Of My Bones

Here’s one for all those self-proclaimed aficionados and seekers of the esoteric: have you heard of Kimi Kärki? If so,

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Album & EP Reviews H 

Harm Wülf ‘There’s Honey In The Soil So We Wait For The Till’ LP/DD 2013

6th November 20133rd September 2019 Ross McKendrick 2013, Acoustic, Blacklisted, Dark, Deathwish Inc, Digital, Folk, G. Hirsch, Harm Wülf, LP, Review, Ross McKendrick, There’s Honey In The Soil So We Wait For The Till

In recent years there has been a glut of material released by members of various heavy music scenes who venture

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Stranger By Starlight ‘Chalk White Nights’ CD 2013

25th September 20133rd September 2019 Tiago Moreira 2013, Anthony Saggers, Atmospheric, Bad Paintings, CD, Chalk White Nights, Dark, Eugene S Robinson, Experimental, Jazz, Review, Stranger By Starlight, Tiago Moreira

Stranger By Starlight (SxS) is a project in a duo format, an American one to be more precise. On one

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Album & EP Reviews L 

Locrian ‘Return To Annihilation’ CD/LP/DD 2013

18th September 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2013, Atmospheric, Avant-Garde, CD, Dark, Digital, Doom, Drone, Industrial, Locrian, LP, Paul Robertson, Relapse Records, Return To Annihilation, Review

Locrian, the three-headed harbinger of the Ballardian apocalypse, return after what seems like an eternity by their usual standards of

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Album & EP Reviews W 

Wolvserpent ‘Perigaea Antahkarana’ CD/LP/DD 2013

18th September 20133rd September 2019 Ross McKendrick 2013, Ambient, CD, Dark, Digital, Doom, Drone, LP, Perigaea Antahkarana, Relapse Records, Review, Ross McKendrick, Wolvserpent

When Boise, Idaho duo Pussygutt reinvented themselves as Wolvserpent with the release of 2010’s incredible debut album Blood Seed, it

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Stevie Floyd / Aerial Ruin – Split LP/DD 2013

27th August 20133rd September 2019 Ross McKendrick 2013, Aerial Ruin, Dark, Digital, Erik Moggridge, Experimental, Folk, LP, Review, Ross McKendrick, Self Released, Split, Stevie Floyd

More than just a mere split LP, this release is more of a collaboration between Stevie Floyd and Aerial Ruin,

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Album & EP Reviews T 

True Widow ‘Circumambulation’ CD/LP/DD 2013

21st August 20133rd September 2019 Jamie Grimes 2013, Atmospheric, CD, Circumambulation, Dark, Digital, Jamie Grimes, LP, Relapse Records, Review, Rock, True Widow

Hearing that Relapse had picked up True Widow last year was a strange one. In one way, it made perfect

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Album & EP Reviews D 

Daniel Menche ‘Vilke’ LP/CS + DVD 2013

30th June 20133rd September 2019 Jamie Grimes 2013, Atmospheric, Cassette, Daniel Menche, Dark, DVD, Jamie Grimes, LP, Noise, Review, Sige Records, Soundscapes, Vilke

It’s as exhausting sometimes to listen to the work of Daniel Mench as it is to keep up with his

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Steve Von Till ‘As The Crow Flies’ Reissue CD/LP/DD 2013

1st May 20132nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2013, Acoustic, Ambient, As The Crow Flies, CD, Dark, Digital, Folk, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Neurot Recordings, Reissue, Review, Steve Von Till

Steve Von Till‘s body of work is well documented; since replacing Chad Salter in Oakland hardcore masters Neurosis in 1989

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Album & EP Reviews C 

Conny Ochs ‘Black Happy’ CD/LP/DD 2013

20th February 20133rd September 2019 Alex Varley 2013, Acoustic, Alex Varley, Black Happy, Blues, CD, Conny Ochs, Dark, Exile On Mainstream Records, Folk, LP, Review

German acoustic singer/songwriter Conny Ochs is not the typical style of music you’d find on The Sleeping Shaman but then

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Skarab – S/T – CD/DD 2012

27th January 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2012, Avant-Garde, CD, Dark, Digital, Heavy, Metal, Paul Robertson, Prog Rock, Review, Self Titled, Skarab, Zeitgeister Music

Does anyone else remember the days when you could always rely on certain record labels to consistently release music that

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