Ivan Tibos.

Nothing You Do Will Ever Matter. Nothing. Ever. Well, I do not agree, because my review matters. …and Music (muSICK) matters.

Five and a half years after the debut Dawn Of A New World (I think it was the last release for defunct Black Metal label Warfront Productions), Dark Ravage, hailing from Vilnius, the capital city of Lithuania, did return with the sophomore full length, The Fall Of Inner Sanctum. It was the second release for Vilnius-based label Forgotten Path Records, released in an edition limited to 300 copies only on compact disc.

After quite a long period of silence, Geneviève Pasquier returns with a ‘new’ recording, including older live material as bonus. Last decade she did release some highly acclaimed albums, especially via Ant-Zen or UMB (the latter being run by herself and Thorofon / The Musick Wreckers colleague Anton Knilpert (nowadays known as Dan Courtman, if I’m not mistaken).

In order to make people comprehend their insignificant existence, Ville ‘v-KhaoZ’ Pallonen started this self-called project quite recently. This Finnish artist, formerly or currently also known from well-known outfits like Azaghal (!), Oath (in a very near future I will write and upload the review for their newest album, once again released via Immortal Frost Productions), Hiisi or Hin Onde, recorded this material during last year’s summer under a black sun.

Black Whispers are a project from Costa Rica, formed in 2013 by José ‘S.S’ Fonseca, nowadays acting as JF or J.F. After a very limited split with Noldor, José recorded + released his debut under the Black Whispers moniker (Negative Ways Of Life) in early 2014 (Depressive Illusions Productions) with assistance of session musician Diego ‘Lwl’ Sanchez.

Radovan Milinkovič is a multi-disciplined artist from the former country of Yugoslavia, acting from the city of Prague (Czech Republic). This guy is active as from the seventies (!). He started working with others artists, initially in London, but as from 1990 he moved over to Prague.

Hailing from the city of Tcherkessk, close to the Georgian border, the Russian band Defiance Of Decease were formed in 2007. But if I’m not mistaken they did not release anything official until now. Suicide is this band’s first full length album, recorded, mixed and mastered at the Darknagar Records studio, and now available via Narcoleptica Prod. on both CD and tape. The result consists of eight tracks that last for thirty-nine minutes.

At the end of last decade, a new entity was born in the Netherlands: Styxian Industries. The aim was to destroy the last beliefs in mankind, and to brutally penetrate all organic structures by the post-apocalyptic industrial hammer (damn, I’m in a poetic mood tonight…). But seriously, this act created some stuff in between 2009 and 2010, with a highlight in 2012 by means of a split with Redreom, released via Total Death Records.

When I was looking for some additional information about Iconoclast’s past, I found out that this Russian band (yes, this review deals with the ‘iconoclast’ from Yaroslavl, Russia, and not with one of the hundred other bands with that very same name) was formed in 2003. It is remarkable but this album actually is the first one they did in ten years of existence. But it does not matter, it’s just an objective fact that did ‘absorb’ my attention.

Nidra are quite a young duo from the Russian city of Perm, more than 1,000 km East from Moscow, and 500 km North of the Kazakhstani border, for your geographical information.