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Ben Nash - The Seventh Goodbye

May 5 2008 at 09:01:03 AM

Youngin’ Ben Nash busts out a lengthy program of fevered and warbled aura that alternately evokes the acid-folk of Fresh Maggots and Gastr del Sol in its least cerebral moments. more here... 

Silbernacht - Liebe und Verfall

April 13 2008 at 06:29:16 AM

Not entirely dissimilar from Morton Feldman's Music for Samuel Beckett, Silbernacht give the listener four different pieces of music that behave in strikingly similar ways. more here... 

Two new Boris releases released

April 12 2008 at 06:44:57 AM

Maybe it's me, but if I never hear the name Boris again, it'll be too soon. more here... 

Asva - What You Don't Know Is Frontier

April 11 2008 at 05:18:53 AM

As luck would have it, I’ve never met Stuart Dahlquist. more here... 

Brown Jenkins - Dagonite

March 24 2008 at 07:01:31 AM

Like Lovecraft aficionados Portal and Catacombs, Texas-based Brown Jenkins stresses the continuation rather than adaptation of the author’s nightmare themes. more here... 

Ride for Revenge - King of Snakes

March 24 2008 at 06:58:28 AM

Finland’s Ride for Revenge is another one of those obscure bands often mentioned due to like, how so totally “unique” they are compared to everyone else (or in some cases, how they sound EXACTLY like everything else, only not really). more here... 

Label Profile: Profound Lore

March 23 2008 at 07:35:16 PM

Begun in 2004 by former metal scribes Chris Bruni and Adrian Bromley, Missasauga, Ontario’s Profound Lore started off as a small, independent enterprise releasing only limited quantities of vinyl. Still small and still fiercely independent since being taken over completely by Bruni, the label has grown in stature ever since, providing an outlet for those listeners ready to be weaned off the same-old metal sound, as well those listeners ready to try new and more lethal poison. Recently, LHP caught up with Bruni to query him on the label’s recent success and its somewhat controversial role in bringing together musical directions once thought of as polar opposites. more here... 

Aural Holograms - Aural Holograms

March 23 2008 at 07:11:37 PM

Compiled into three tracks, recorded in three separate countries and by several musicians with ties to both the Finnish electronic and metal underground—including Anti Haapapuro (Dolorian, Aeoga, Halo Manash) and Jussi Saivo (F, Tiermes)—Aural Holograms begins its auspicious triangular engagement in dented, imperfect tones, inky trails, and shrieks of uncertain materials directed toward a frightful communion of sound and perception. more here... 

Pulsefear - Perichoresis

March 23 2008 at 09:49:55 AM

Christened prior to co-writers Michael Blenkarn and Brooke Johnson becoming the better known Axis of Perdition, Pulsefear's first and only public record arrives in five tracks set down between 2001-2006 more here... 

Spektr - The Near Death Experience

March 20 2008 at 11:58:03 PM

Two-man outfit Spektr is a collaboration between the members of French Black Metal groups Haemoth and Batthlehorns, suitably titled and acted out on behalf of the invisible and sinister energies purported to surround us all. more here...