If there's one band that I can always rely on to lift my spirits, it's Crown Of Asteria. It's been that way for a long, long time. (I feel so damn proud that I'm actually in a band with the incredible Meghan Wood, the woman behind this most prolific project!) Today, I'm sharing an awe… Continue reading Sound Of The Day : Crown Of Asteria
What's this now? A new post? Yes folks, I'm as surprised as you, but here we are. Before I treat (?) you to today's sound(s), I want to raise a cup of tea to Wyrd Words & Effigies sixth year floating in the blogosphere. Seventy-two full moons ago, I wrote the very first of the… Continue reading Sound(s) Of The Day : Cave Mouth
A bit headachy today, so I went down the dark folk route where I found Green Elder, an Appalachian ritualistic folk project that aims to 'paint forests in sound by giving their natural seasonal beauty aural life and their mythical lore an abstract presence.' I've been relaxing into the gorgeous track Winter's First Fire from… Continue reading Sound Of The Day : Green Elder
I'm not exactly sure what's happened in the past few months, but I've discovered hardly anything darkly brilliant enough to indulge my senses in. That was until I came across Völur today, after a brief visit to YouTube to see if they had anything in the way of offerings. Their folk inspired doom is so… Continue reading Sound Of The Day : Völur
I don't know how Yorkshire based project (how often have I featured something from Yorkshire?! This is a special occasion...) Darkher slipped through the net, but to be quite honest, I'm glad it did. I'm not entirely sure in which category to put Darkher into. I went with dark folk to begin with, but it's… Continue reading Sound Of The Day : Darkher
Fell upon this song by Graveyard Train today as I was browsing YouTube for some weird folk tunes. I fucking love it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj6Q0xRW5bQ&list=PL5193DCB4E190A54E&index=6
More mellow stuff. King Dude this time, with the exquisite track When my mother was the Moon.
This morning I am enjoying the creepy, dark folk of Ohio based musical project Splinterskin.
I needed something mellow today, so went for German Neo-Folk/Dark Folk band Empyrium. I've been listening to their haunting track The Days Before the Fall from their 2014 album The Turn of the Tides. I can't recommend it highly enough.
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 