Mute Records has just announced a box set with 50 acts ‘performing’ John Cage’s infamous 1952 avant-garde composition 4’33” – which directs musicians not to play any instruments. It’s just the kind of high-concept piece […]
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Longform industrial dread on Vatican Shadow – Opium Crop Airstrikes
Musicians often talk about random flashes of inspiration, or ‘a sign’ – but Dominick Fernow was compelled into his latest Vatican Shadow project by a moment of almost supernatural gravity. After hearing of the serious […]
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement’s Digital field ecologies
Dominick Fernow hits the jungle once more in his ritual ambient dub form as Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement – this time with a more ecological message than the usual voodoo undertones. He says it’s “a turning […]
‘Black medieval grind’ on this Prurient / Autoerotichrist split – Blizzard
January is bleak enough, without its soundtrack oozing from the mind of Dominick Fernow, the prolific New Yorker behind some of the most arresting productions of the last two decades – from dark, ritualistic ambience […]
Hibernate with Elizabeth Veldon’s 16-hour minimal drone piece, A Night In Winter
Elizabeth Veldon is a sound artist who works in “long form drone, minimalism and improvisation” according to her Bandcamp bio – and she’s taking the long form aspect to new levels in her latest project. […]
Kirkis channels Bowie and MJ, but mostly the fear on Dead Nightclub
Here’s a new brain-wrong video from Melbourne artist Kirkis, who’s got plenty more weirdness where that come from. Dead Nightclub is the first track from his second album Kirkis 2 and follows his debut Vide […]
‘Defining mortality’ on new Dopplereffekt EP Athanatos
Electronic conceptualists Dopplereffekt have just announced details of a new EP, which seems to be another exploration of their later period science themes. Athanatos apparently build on the concepts of 2017’s Cellular Automata (Moo Kid’s […]
Get more Cure for your buck
The worst kept secret in Irish goth land was finally let out today, as the venue for The Cure’s return to Dublin was announced. After teasing the date on social media last week, Robert Smith […]
Premiere: Blackened industrial dread on Gruth’s Befallen
Gruth’s blackened electronics have been festering in the underground over a few releases now, with his roles listed as “black arts, misanthropy and abhorrence” on his Bandcamp profile. Brazil-based finnish producer Juha Puuperä has released […]
‘Loving atonal shards’ on new PLOM EP
The latest release on Danish label FLUF is another unwavering dispatch from the outskirts of electronic music, this time from PLOM, aka Barcelona-based producer Pau Magrané Figuera. Actual bio details are sketchy enough, but PLOM’s website […]
From the club to inner space: Objekt – Secret Snake
Even when he’s banging out club cuts, Berlin-based producer Objekt’s electronic creations always hit the head as much as the gut, with tracks sound designed to the nth degree, while still keeping a nervy vigour. […]
$hit and $hine’s weirdo jazz-funk glitch EP, Very High
Considering $hit and $hine 2017’s album Total $hit came with a website that was just a an interactive silvery, spinning poo emoji with hyper electronics gushing forth as you clicked the bluebottle cursor, head $hit-master Craig […]
The hills are alive with the sound of Laibach
Laibach have been triggering sensibilities way before warnings became a thing, and their new video is another masterstroke of performance art trolling. In 2015, the Slovenian industrial act became the first Western band to be […]
‘Such magical violence’: Glitchy brain-fry from Tokyo hip-hop trio Dos Monos
Outlier hip-hop/noise label Deathbomb Arc have been “freaking out” over their new signing Dos Monos – a Japanese/Korean hip-hop trio – and here’s the video that’ll explain why. With an initial manifesto to “hijack your […]
Never Reigns but it pours: Slayer going down fighting on last tour
Metal fans have recently been wearing extra black for mourning after thrash gods Slayer announced their retirement — but they’re going out with a hell of a headbang on their final tour. After 37 years […]
