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Her Menacing Pet – The Abyss Stares Back (Threateningly Melancholic Black Ambient)

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Her Menacing Pet – The Abyss Stares Back (Threateningly Melancholic Black Ambient)

  Well, I did it, I judged a band by their name, but to be fair sometimes that equals review gold, like the perennial classic, and arguably worst band name in history, Clouds Taste Satanic. Her Menacing Pet, by contrast, sounded at first read like an overwrought, melodramatic foray into the goth by a tween […]

Maris Anguis – Infernal Reign (Black Ambient Soul Purge)

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Maris Anguis – Infernal Reign (Black Ambient Soul Purge)

  There’s good ambient, and there’s bad ambient, regardless of subgenre. There is no middle. The reason is simple. The artist is either skilled at making music, or merely holds keys on a keyboard. I’ve said this a bagillkillion times. Here we have something even beyond the usual skill, though, something of darkly mythic potential. […]

Isolator – Culture & Principal of Anti​-​Human Exaltation

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Isolator – Culture & Principal of Anti​-​Human Exaltation

Loneliness, crushing loneliness.  If you’re not feeling that right now, stop right here, go no further.  For this is the kind of thing you can experience in only one context; in the middle of wretched solitude.  No feeling, numb, cold, and in complete darkness.  Without these elements you’ll completely misunderstand everything about this album.  There […]