I love it, love it, love it when friends send me music recommendations. The particular friend who sent me today's sound always gets it right. I hadn't heard about John Moose before today, and ohhhh shit, I've been missing some magical stuff. While I thought at first that it was a solo outfit, it's actually… Continue reading Sound Of The Day : John Moose
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
Have I been living in a cave for the past several months or was Darkthrone's 16th album Arctic Thunder something of a monumental flop? (Though I have to admit I'm a sucker for the album title which was, for the record, the name of a Norwegian heavy metal band who were active from the mid… Continue reading Sound Of The Day : Darkthrone
Just discovered the magic of English folk musician/poet/visual artist Keaton Henson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0jsqPkzK2I
Not sure where NOÊTA have been MY ENTIRE LIFE, but I'm glad they're here now. This two piece dark ambient project from Sweden is exactly the sort of thing I've been hoping to find I started trembling literally moments into their song Beyond Life, the first track from their new album Beyond Life And Death.… Continue reading Sound Of The Day : NOÊTA
January, where oh fucking where did you go? Last time I blinked it was mid-December. Things were a little bit quiet over here for the first month of 2017. Much quieter than I would have liked, to be honest. Long timers will know I like to keep it busy. But I'm going to give January… Continue reading It Was A Wyrd January
I have just spent the past hour on Metal Archives with the intention of finding myself some new black metal - bands I've never encountered before - to indulge my senses in and to treat you to, but found myself at a horrible fucking loss after investigating several projects and being disappointed by every. single.… Continue reading Sound Of The Day : Elysian Fields
I went in search of the origins of the Atmospheric BM band Sadness after I'd been swept up by Tundra, the 18th release since the birth of the project in 2014. I was expecting to see a wealth of names attached to the Sadness Metal Archives page, and nearly spat out my tea to see… Continue reading Sound Of The Day : Sadness
I'm still trying to make up my mind about USBM project Howls Of Ebb... But they're intrigued me enough with this track from their 2016 album Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows (it was the album art which drew me to it initially) to want to check out the rest of their discography. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HB1xleU6Gc
Listened to Leonard Cohen's final album You Want It Darker today. Bowled. The fuck. Away. Here's my favourite track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0nmHymgM7Y
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 