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Review: Cold Therapy - The Darkest Hour

Dec 4, 2018
2 min

Review: Cold Therapy - The Darkest Hour

Cold Therapy, a unique Industrial influenced one-man project from Poland, has returned with a haunting new album called The Darkest Hour. Living up to it's gloomy name, the release provides a captivating album equally inspired by Bach as it does :wumpscut:. Steadily moving forward in a Gothic funeral march, the entire release is an extremely moody, brooding, and atmospheric affair. Delightfully devilish it'll certainly appeal to your gothic tendencies by providing your favori

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Review: Burial Grid - Where We Go

Apr 30, 2018
1 min

Review: Burial Grid - Where We Go

Starting with a fluttery and bubbly intro track that walks the lines in between Vaporwave and Electronica in a smooth abstract ambient presentation, it's confusing array of sounds slowly builds up into a strange blending of delayed and detuned synthetics. Haunting repetitive vocal samples and huge saw-pads draw in for a final crescendo over a delayed and glitchy sounding drum beat. Quite the entrance for this short, but engaging IDM release created by Northampton based Dark E

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Review: God In A Cone - Earth My Prison

Apr 28, 2018
3 min

Review: God In A Cone - Earth My Prison

Ah yes, God In A Cone, your favorite "rock" band from Greece, that as usual remains prolific and defying real boundaries or definition, is back again with another epic album entitled "Earth My Prison". Shaking things up and really embracing their most diverse sound to date, every song on this album truly shines as it's own, and that's why I love these guys. Even though some of the lyrical references getting lost on me due to cultural difference, the power and diversity of the

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Esoteric Review #5: G. D. Laval - Sacerdotium Umbrae Mortis & The Explicit Name Of Lucifer

Apr 1, 2018
6 min

Esoteric Review #5: G. D. Laval - Sacerdotium Umbrae Mortis & The Explicit Name Of Lucifer

G. D. Laval's, who you may be familiar with through my previous review for his excellent Grimoire "Black Magick Evocation Of The Shem Ha Mephorash", has several other books that he has had published (also through Aeon Sophia Press) that act as both solo grimoires and companion volumes to Black Magick Evocation (BME). They contain a great deal of workable information that can be used on their own, with each book having it's own full system of workable magic and entities to con

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Review: Zwaremachine - Be A Light

Mar 28, 2018
2 min

Review: Zwaremachine - Be A Light

Moving along with a steady march, the pulsing mechanical sounds of Zwaremachine latest release "Be A Light", will be a familiar one to anyone who kept up with the modern old-school EBM revival movement. Keeping things stripped back and simple, most of the tracks have a focus on thick as hell basslines, crisp and pounding drum machine supplemented percussion, and some mildly distorted border-line spoken word lyricism. Despite their condensed and on-point formula, that may be a

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Esoteric Review #4: Patrick J. Larabee - Whisperings From The Void

Mar 18, 2018
4 min

Esoteric Review #4: Patrick J. Larabee - Whisperings From The Void

"Whisperings From The Void" by Patrick J. Larabee is as much a meditative experience through a multitude of forms of media as it is a book of literature. A trifecta of prose, poetry, and art, interlaced within each other to create an reading experience which is enveloping to say the least. The book is internally divided into three major sections. The first (entitled Book I: Hermitus Pathos) is a series of essays approaching the subject of perception through a multitude of dif

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Esoteric Review #3: J. T. Kirkbride - Saturn Rising

Mar 11, 2018
5 min

Esoteric Review #3: J. T. Kirkbride - Saturn Rising

Saturn Rising by J. T. Kirkbride, is a grimoire of the truest of kinds, more so then you normally see in this modern time. Featuring a good mixture of experiential and researched knowledge, all filtered through years of practice and analysis, one comes out of reading it feeling like they were brought along an authentic voyage of academia, personal Gnosticism, and a perfect amount of synthesis between the two. Much like grimoires of the old times, this isn't a book that you ca

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Review: Cardinal Noire - Deluge

Mar 1, 2018
2 min

Review: Cardinal Noire - Deluge

Are you ready for the sounds of the apocalypse? Sounding like a slow death march in the pits of the abyss, dark choirs, static layered haunting ambiences, and huge crashing percussion drive forward this short intro track, setting a perfect mood for Cardinal Noire's 2018 release "Deluge". Short, fat, and saturated electro-basslines pound quickly across a distorted and reverb drenched cacophony of maddening pounding drums and percussion (which never let up for a second) as the

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Review: Suture Messiah - Suture Messiah

Nov 27, 2017
2 min

Review: Suture Messiah - Suture Messiah

Beginning with a strange psychedelic electronica piece that slowly devolves into an more bizarre soundtracky type piece that sounds like it was written by aliens trying to write a horror movie, this release certainly gives you an interesting start. Deep resonant brooding pianos powerfully entrance the first full track, "Tongue" on Suture Messiah's debut self titled release. Lurking around the haunting pianos, answering in accompaniment with solemn siren screeches and gritty d

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Esoteric Review #02: A. D. Mercer - Liber Coronzom

Nov 17, 2017
6 min

Esoteric Review #02: A. D. Mercer - Liber Coronzom

Enochian magick is one of those elusive things that has been written on many times, but who's actual working mechanics have always been shifty. Many have had their crack at interpretation, but an actual pathworking guiding you through it in a workable system isn't something you'll find easy. Works that have attempted to do such things in the past, usually either are heavy handed on history and academia, draw far to strongly from the Golden Dawn, Thelema and/or elaborate and c

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Review!: Wasted Potency - Wasted Time EP

Nov 7, 2017
2 min

Review!: Wasted Potency - Wasted Time EP

Laid-back flow bouncing to slow to midtempo grooves make up the basic rhythm you'll find on this chill release of drugged out tongue in cheek (quite cheeky at that!) rhymes. Continually making mention of his weed use, the size of his manhood, various millennial troupes (such as fast food, video game, and pop culture references), and a seemingly satirical mixture of eccentric bravado and self-deprecatory potty humor, he keeps his release entertaining from party beginnings to s

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Esoteric Review #01: G. D. Laval - Black Magick Evocation of the Shem Ha Mephorash

Oct 25, 2017
5 min

Esoteric Review #01: G. D. Laval - Black Magick Evocation of the Shem Ha Mephorash

G. D. Laval's "Black Magick Evocation of the Shem Ha Mephorash" is quite the exquisite modern Grimoire, which packs a complete system of Goetic magick which can be used to summon the fractured disembodied intelligences that make up the greater Shem Ha Mephorash system. The Shem Ha Mephorash itself is the supposed sacred name of god embodied within a particular passage of the Bible. Derived from the text using advanced Gematria (a Hebrew practice of using numerology to find es

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Review: Droid Sector Decay - National Union Of World Murders EP

Oct 18, 2017
2 min

Review: Droid Sector Decay - National Union Of World Murders EP

Staring off with a thick dull blast of a beat, only to move to a far more frantic and aggressive monster filled with a variety of different distortion scrapes, overdriven percussion, and low pulsing synth basslines, the intensity never subsides in the early moments of this release. Keeping the rhythmic noise formula consistent throughout most of this release, but adding a variety of different paces (ranging from mid-tempo noisy and groovy beats to rather quick and violent sou

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Review: Schwefelgelb - Den Umgekehrten Atem

Oct 13, 2017
1 min

Review: Schwefelgelb - Den Umgekehrten Atem

Hard hitting leaving you ready to rock your head and stomp your feet, "Den Umgekehrten Atem" is a perfect example of how to craft some excellent old school sounding Industrial Techno grooves. Packed into this short release is nothing but high energy electronics meant to keep the pace moving. This small but powerful extended play is packed from beginning to end with stylistic grace, crisp mixing, and a solid balance between repetition and transition. Rhythm and bass dominate t

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Review: klack - Do You Klack?

Oct 12, 2017
2 min

Review: klack - Do You Klack?

Old school through and through, this short but sweet EP of electronic body music manages to fuse two sides of the 80s that walked similar lines but had different attitudes and approaches. Bringing the sweet serene sounds of new wave, filled with sparkling leads and huge tom rolls that'll get your heart beating, to the dancefloor smashing hard edged grooves of EBM, pounding with thick and juicy arpeggiators and four to the floor crashing and pounding drums, klack does the rene

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Review: Trevor Something - Death Dream

Oct 11, 2017
2 min

Review: Trevor Something - Death Dream

Moody and groovy, this slick washed out affair of tranquil indietronica is an excellent presentation of what the best of the many genres it touches upon has to offer. Moving through the echoey chambers of warehouse electronic music, only to dance through the halls of indie rock, finishing with a somber saunter through the dark atmospheres of industrial synthwave, this eclectic artist manages to keep the album cohesive with consistently smooth and reverbent vocals that just oo

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Review: PERTURBATOR - New Model

Oct 10, 2017
2 min

Review: PERTURBATOR - New Model

Glittering and bubbling it's way into a smooth crescendo, the deceptively serene atmospheres that start the album don't adequately prepare you for the dark and heavy sonic expressions that present themselves throughout the majority of the album. Fusing nostalgically crisp and crunchy analog sounds of Synthwave with the aggression and intensity found in modern Industrial Dance music, PERTURBATOR truly have expertly synthesized an amalgamation of sounds I've been searching to h

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Oct 5, 2017
1 min

Review: Dissonance - Void

Emotive, haunting, and beautiful, the voice of Cat Hall echoes through the mechanical soundtrack of Dissonance's "Void". Her voice, stacked together usually with layers of contrasting effects and harmony, illuminate and contrast the cold chambers of the minimalist melodies found throughout. Embodying loneliness, loss, and hurt, this sorrowful soundtrack is a poetic Gothic musical outpouring, an album that stands on it's strengths of passion and honesty. Enough cannot be said

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Sep 25, 2017
2 min

Review: God In A Cone - Shark Was A Boy

Mostly shedding their previous skin as an avant-garde industrial metal act, this daring and prolific band God In A Cone has done it again and provided another expert collection of musical expressions. This time delivering with an extremely concise concept album, "Shark Was A Boy", presented in the form of folk metal album, it is quite like I would expect from an artist like Folk Earth or Wintersun. With a wide variety of ethnic and medieval instrumentation, drawing from the W

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Review: Dtour - Brothers

Sep 19, 2017
1 min

Review: Dtour - Brothers

Whether reflecting upon the broken neighborhood he's resided in, and the dark thoughts which such situations breed, or upon his dedication and drive which causes an endless pursuit of growth, creativity, and success, Dtour speaks from the heart. Coming across with cool confidence, focused and pronounced expressive lyricism, and on point rhythmic structure he truly show his mastery of the mic on his latest album, "Brothers". Collecting a diverse set of lyrical subjects and bea

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