Occult Vibe Haven (OVH)
Some records announce themselves. Others emerge – already cracked at the edges, warm with the weight of time, familiar in the way a long-unseen friend can be. Lorquin’s Admiral, the debut from the band of the same name, is one of those records. Not a debut in spirit, but in name only. This is a […]
There’s something perversely satisfying about music that sounds like it’s decomposing as you listen – fibrous, overgrown, festering with weight and mood. Colonize, the sophomore full-length from Belgian post-industrial mystics MoldEra, doesn’t so much play as it expands, seeps, and then collapses into itself. It’s the sound of fertile decay, a sonic loam fed by […]
Twenty-five years in, Witchcraft no longer needs to prove anything to anyone. They never really did. But IDAG isn’t a victory lap – it’s a weathered, cracked-mirror self-portrait, a record that stares its own history down and dares it to blink. The album title means “today” in Swedish, but this is less about the fleeting […]
There’s something about this record that feels like it’s falling apart as it’s being built – like scaffolding collapsing in slow motion while someone’s still welding new beams onto it. That’s not a criticism. It’s the point. THRÆDS aren’t new, but Impermanence feels like a debut in the truest, ugliest, most ambitious sense – like […]
This record doesn’t ask if you’re ready. It doesn’t care. In the Dawn of November kicks the door open slow, with the weight of years behind it—the kind of record that feels like a reckoning, not a release. Goya aren’t here to impress you. They never have been. They came crawling out of the desert […]