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David Thièrrèe \ melodic black metal \ plague-ridden black metal \ russia \ Saturnal Records
Hymnr – Far Beyond Insanity (Plague-Ridden Melodic Black Metal)
Usually I see some “insanity” reference and I want to cry. It’s like late works of Gothic literature that tried to creep with “scary” mental illness. Honestly, it’s not that scary. Really it’s not. So to see the same trope with black metal of the melodic variety? Come on now. That’s what I thought. […]
Aural Music \ dark folk \ Italy \ Paola Erre \ russia
kariti – Covered Mirrors (A Dark Folk Emotional Purge through Loss)
To be honest I simply reworded kariti’s own Bandcamp blurb for my subtitle of this one because her words were so poignant alone but I didn’t want to seem totally incapable of thought. But thoughts are lacking today, as a rule. I’m at a total loss for thoughts and words, or better to say […]
Chadwick St. John \ Inferna Profundus Records \ Ingrian Black Metal \ Inkshadows \ like get with it \ russia \ St. Petersburg \ Ulvdalir
Ulvdalir – Hunger for the Cursed Knowledge (Ingrian Black Metal Duh)
Did you even, like, know what “Ingrian Black Metal” was before this review? I know I didn’t, lol. I had heard something of the region of Ingria, but I didn’t realize there was this thing with black metal there until I heard Ulvdalir. I won’t even get into the complex ethnic background of it […]
dark electronic \ dark pop \ electronica \ no annoying ASCII symbols \ russia \ witch house
Sobranie 8 18 – S/T (No Annoying ASCII Symbols Witch House)
Yeah I needed some witchery in my lifedeath and this just happened to pop in the promos only a few days before it officially drops. Good. You metal, punk, death thrash, and whatever else clowns need to lose your lucidity once in awhile and melt away. Sit back, listen, brain bleed, absorb. Get the […]
Anastasia Rodina \ languid shit \ Moscow \ post-black metal \ russia
L’Homme Absurde – Belong (Past-Black Metal)
I’m trying to figure out why it’s so easy to like post-black metal. It seems the morphing of classic aesthetic into a dreary, introspective void just works somehow. But this type of direction has been around so long can we even call it post anymore? It’s like past-black metal now. Therein is the current […]
ambient \ black metal \ blackened death metal \ Bloodsoaked Records \ cassette \ Cassette Assault \ Cerecloth \ death industrial \ death metal \ Divergent Series \ doom metal \ drone \ experimental \ Iron Noose \ No Visible Scars \ noise \ One Master \ RID \ russia \ sludge metal \ stoner metal \ Sunmask \ Sweden \ Swedish death metal \ The Death Wheelers \ UIS \ Witchstone
CASSETTE ASSAULT (Stuff I’ve Been Sitting Upon)
It’s been a long time since I’ve done one of these, and that’s primarily because of a special app I’m seriously working on for the site where I can give some press to stuff I don’t review on in this way anymore. Bad art, or just ehhh releases, will all have their due eventually. Sometimes this […]
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Quick Reviews – September 2017
In case you missed it, we do special, short reviews now of stuff that’s not up to the standards I set for full reviews. Meaning, the cover art sucks. This doesn’t mean the music isn’t any good, of course, but as you know, at least 1/4 of an album’s presence is in its art, a […]
art \ artwork \ just awesome \ russia \ underground art \ Viktoria Polikarpova \ Visionis Phosphorescent
Artist Unmasked: Viktoria Polikarpova of Visionis Phosphorescent
As some of you know, I’ve been developing new ideas behind the scenes for the future of Deaf Sparrow, one of which was the plan to highlight different underground artists, including a showcase of their most recent art, like a digital gallery viewing. The reason behind this is I noticed a serious lack of support […]
dark ambient \ Infinite Fog Productions \ Ksenza Records \ russia \ Stuzha \ totally cold beyond belief
Stuzha – Butugichag
Perfect timing for this, what with all of the cold creeping in and killing everything. Today the temperature dropped low enough to freeze puddles, and the pleasant sound of fracturing earth was welcome, but still, it’s not cold enough. We need cold that anything living dreads, cold you can feel in your bone marrow. Stop […]
dark folk \ folk \ Goth \ Infinite Fog Productions \ occult \ occult rock \ post-punk \ russia \ so Russian you'll with you were Russian \ Srub \ Сруб
Сруб (Srub) – Топь (Bog)
Here’s one that takes careful consideration, due primarily to the cultural background behind it, of which few would be aware outside of its home country. Eastern Europe often receives a great of the west’s insensitivity, primarily because so few understand anything of its history. Remember World War I? Yeah, read about Apis and learn a […]
