Even though the album The Erosion Of Innocence will soon celebrate its first anniversary, I still feel the urge to write down my (in-depth / interesting / innocent / naïve / necessary / clumsy - cross out what does not apply) thoughts about it…
What is told here, is the truth within you, me, all of us; which no one can see, or hear, but deep inside, one can feel that it’s breathing, watching every minute we walk this earth in darkness.
First a personal manifest. As mentioned a six hundred and sixty five times before, and I’ll repeat it once more: Concreteweb focuses on dark-edged Aural Art in the first place. It’s an independent webzine that writes about sonic efforts, not about politics.
Once again, several members of the Centipede Abyss community join forces under a new constellation; this time under the moniker Dandelion. The band’s name comes from a genus of plants, the taraxacum, characterized by their multiple petals, mainly white, yellow or orange colored. But this isn’t an essay about the beauty of nature, but about the beauty of sonic delirium.
Can you imagine my excitement? Quite recently, Monsieur Stu from Aesthetic Death informed me about a new Goatpsalm release. Hurray! Seriously, it had been way too long, for this act’s latest official recording (Downstream) was released in 2016 – with exception of Ash, the (unique) work with side-project Horthodox (which I have not reviewed, apparently??? – I feel ashamed).
Behold! A secrecy, an enigmatic moment in the near future, a diamond in the rough yet to come…
I admit: a dramatic introduction, but hey, there’s a new Idylls Of The Last King album coming up soon, now in its finishing phase, erelong available for the audience. The working title will be A Year At The End Of Time, and probably it will be released via Heimat Der Katastrophe from Italy. It is supposed to be a reflection of earthly time, a narration around our natural cycle, a proclamation of seasons that come and go.
Züüd is (or was? I’m not sure whether this project is still active???) an outfit by Portugal-born sweetie Nuno Laurenço, based in Brazil.
I admit; this is an ‘older’ release, but it is in support of Cold Spring Records (and because I want to greet the label’s chieftain Justin politely). Cheers!
Ominous Sounds is a young label from Iberian soil, run by Hiemis chieftain Juan Carlos Toledo, and specialized in the more ritualistic niche of Dark Ambient material and related Music. Beside releases from ‘individual’ projects (Monotone Murk, Rune Clausen, Altum), the label also focuses on compiled releases, i.e. so-called ‘various artists’ albums, compilations with projects that sort of wander around in comparable dimensions of archaic ritualism.
Short introduction… ElectronicDeathBlackDogs, aka Electronic Death Black Dogs, are a productive project from Scotland, UK, run by Roddy Graham. Once again, Roddy wrote and performed everything himself, and he took care of the production too.
Almost two years ago (at this moment of posting), Brotherhood Of Sleep released their first album, Devotional Hymns To A Brilliant Flaming Sun (via the mighty Dutch label Winter-Light). I was enormously impressed by the result, which I labeled in my personal files as ‘obscure and hypnotic Deep Trance / Ceremonial Drone / Dark Ritual Ambient’ (I can’t help it that my autistic alter-ego adores making lists of different things, hehe). Earlier this year, this project came up with the sophomore album, called Enter The Nuummite Cosmos.
