Saturday, August 31, 2019

Romokon - "Dripnön" [2019]

Artist: Romokon
Title: Dripnön
Genre: Ritual Ambient
Country: Hungary
Year: 2019

Track List:
  1. Nüpa
  2. Dorje
  3. Döchak
  4. Kyewa
It's not often when my readers suggest me anything interesting, but here's one: a Hungarian ritual ambient project with a Tibetan theme (out of all the stuff posted on here before, it can be compared to Raksha Mancham), that was primarily active during 2006-2009 but released the debut EP entitled "Dripnön" only in May 2019. All the tracks are minimalistic and instrumental (with the exception of "Оṃ Vajrapāṇi Hūṃ" mantra used in the second track):


Friday, August 30, 2019

Pierre Noir - "Licantropia is the relationship of the barbarized mankind" [2019]

Artist: Pierre Noir
Title: Licantropia is the relationship of the barbarized mankind
Genre: Industrial/Techno, Black Metal
Country: Spain
Year: 2019

Track List:
  1. Licantropia is the relationship
  2. Barbarization of mankind
Pierre Noir is an anonymous project from Spain (apparently somehow connected to Yunclas), that's producing a rather strange kind of industrial techno with black metal overtones. Surely it's not for everyone's taste, but it's original. At least I can't name any acts that sound similar to Pierre Noir, although "Esplendor Geométrico meets black metal" would be a fairly accurate description. The comparison with EG is quite obvious since they're the only classic industrial act in Spain that has influenced a lot of industrial/rhythmic noise artists, spanish and non-Spanish alike.

The name of the project may sound like a parody of Peste Noire, but it's actually a reference to the black stones (like the well-known one in Mecca) that were worshipped in many pagan cultures (that's also probably what the Candlemass song "Black Stone Wielder" was inspired by). The apparent parallel in northwestern Russia is the worship of "blue stones" which is probably of Meryan origin ultimately.

Saturday, August 17, 2019

V/A - "Lavana III" [2019]

Title: Heliophagia 06
Genre: Dark Ambient, Post-Rock, Post-Industrial
Country: Russia
Year: 2019

Track List:
  1. Futiliteit - August
  2. Res Magnifica - Orange Sky Aglow
  3. Непрерывные Города & Всполохи Ржавчины - Серповница
  4. Accasari (ex-System Morgue) - Devoratio
  5. Refraction Reel Lily - MoRr-Oko-Lahr
  6. Circle Of Unexisted - Bloodhail (Have a Nice Life cover) (feat. Anguish)
Good to see that Heliophagia are back again to work after a long hiatus. According to their description, "The Lavana III compilation is dedicated to the Summer Harvest 2019, as well as to our noonday demons". The first two compilations in these series, Lavana I and Lavana II: Hardest Harvest, also were dedicated to the traditional day of summer harvest, as well as to the death of everything old and the beginning of everything new. Overall, these ones aren't as good as Lavana III, but at least the Casa Ukrania track on Lavana I is one of their best. As for this complilation, it's certainly recommended for all fans of hypnotic and slightly noisy post-rock sound. Not sure if the band Futiliteit on there is the same as Futiliteit Orchestra on the earlier compilations by Heliophagia, but they surely sound very different.