Qual — Sable
Review of a debut album by Qual, the side project of Lebanon Hanover's William Maybelline.
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Peder Mannerfelt — The Swedish Congo Record
Peder Mannerfelt is offering a creative insight to the early Congolese music with his collage album “The Swedish Congo Record” on Archives Intérieures label.
O/H (Ontario Hospital) — Future Ready
“Future Ready” is the instinctively brutal first EP by Ontario Hospital.
The Body — I Shall Die Here
The purely dark album „I Shall Die Here“ by The Body is a powerful fusion of the rigorous metal and electronic music.
Trepaneringsritualen — Perfection & Permanence
Trepaneringsritualen’s “Perfection & Permanence” is a dark industrial ode to atheism, occultism and magic.
Grey Branches — Lower Bounds
Grey Branches’ “Lower Bounds” is an excellent and intense cross-genre EP.
OAKE — Auferstehung
“Auferstehung” is OAKE’s superb and magnificently dark debut album.
Gábor Lázár — EP16
Gábor Lázár’s compelling record “EP16” explores the future of rave music.
Franck Vigroux — Centaure EP
Franck Vigroux’s superb EP “Centaure” inaugurates Cosmo Rhythmatic label.
Broken Bone — Willowbrook
Broken Bone’s “Willowbrook”: noise and distortion for a truly distorted — and rotten — system.
AnD — Cosmic Microwave Background
AnD’s debut album moves between industrial techno, fragmented rhythm and deep-space atmospheres.
Album Covers with Skulls
A skull moves between mortality, ritual, humour and provocation across these album covers.