Category: Dark

31 January 2023 / Dark

Ropes Inside a Hole – A Man and His Nature

Ropes Inside a Hole (RIAH) presented their debut album in 2019 and followed it with a split record in 2020 with Postvorta. The two years since were some of the…

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24 January 2023 / Dark

Phal:Angst – Whiteout

Austrian collective, Phal:Angst, don’t write songs. They create moods. For their fifth album, they aim to compose cinematic pieces for a film you will never see but might think you’ve…

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20 January 2023 / Dark

Dismal – Via Entis

Neo-classical darkwave unit, Dismal, might have the most inaccurate name of all time to describe the mood of their art. Their music is anything but dismal. Formed in Italy in…

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31 December 2022 / Dark

Katharos XIII – Cthonian Transmissions

Are Romania’s Katharos XIII the best-kept secret in the metal underground? Their music is not available on the major streaming platforms, and you’ll need Bandcamp if you want to listen…

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2 November 2022 / Dark

Black Math Horseman – Black Math Horseman

Black Math Horseman astonished the underground with their 2009 debut record, Wyllt. No other music collective sounded like this – mystical, transcendent, troubled, unsettled, beautiful. How could a band with…

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30 August 2022 / Dark

Dawnwalker – House of Sand

You should be worried when a metal band stop listening to their Black Sabbath records in favour of The Beatles. Dawnwalker produced one of the finest progressive/post-metal albums of 2020…

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8 July 2022 / Dark

Final Light – Final Light

What do you get when you pair up James Kent of Perturbator with Johannes Persson of Cult of Luna? The answer is a one-time project commissioned by Roadburn Festival that…

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20 June 2022 / Dark

Deathwhite – Grey Everlasting

Does anybody write funereal rock music like Pennsylvania’s Deathwhite? As with Katatonia, their roots as a gothic-tinged doom band help them to produce a forlorn musical concoction that could appeal…

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30 May 2022 / Dark

Blut Aus Nord – Disharmonium – Undreamable Abysses

French visionaries, Blut Aus Nord, are an icon of black metal and one of the most innovative artists in dark experimental music. Who can deny the extreme metal brilliance of…

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18 May 2022 / Dark

Christian Death – Evil Becomes Rule

Depending on your loyalties, Christian Death have eighteen albums to their name if you count the three issued between 1992 and 1994 under the rival moniker, Christian Death Featuring Rozz…

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