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Mount Eerie’s last album, Clear Moon, definitely took drone and repetition to the forefront for the longtime musical project of singer-songwriter Phil Elverum. Phil is now gearing up to release his second album of 2012, Ocean Roar, and “Pale Lights” is the first song to drop from it. The
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On their latest album, Wreck and Reference unapologetically combines elements of noise, drone, black metal, and industrial as well. WATCH THE REVIEW
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The Messianic Downfall by GNAW THEIR TONGUES “The Messianic Downfall” is a sickeningly dark piece of vile, noisy, and lo-fi black metal from this project’s recently released Eschatological Scatology. Nice title. This LP was recorded back in ’09, but hasn’t had any sort of official release until this
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Some serene sounds and strange visuals coming through on this new Kyle Bobby Dunn video for “An Evening With Dusty.” The track comes from this ambient music enthusiast’s forthcoming album, Bring Me the Head of Kyle Bobby Dunn, which will be out on Low Point in June. More info
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On Mount Eerie’s latest effort, Phil Elverum managest to transform is usual sounds and emotions into a repetitive, drone-y, and sometimes ambient musical experience. Mostly, it’s beautiful, but a few moments felt a bit overlong to me. Plus, despite being well over 40 minutes, I didn’t come
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AETERNA (2012) by Black Swan To those of you who prefer their ambient music as dark and eerie as possible, allow me to direct your attention to the experimental drone project Black Swan. I’ve heard plenty of artists toy with “dark ambient” music with underwhelming results, mostly at the
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After the release of its debut album, I Missed You Black Diamond, experimental music project Thee Source ov Fawnation is following things up with a new, 21-minute EP of dissonant drones, gritty beats, and ominous tones. This “3EP” seems to work as a trilogy, with one track segueing into another
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Stream / Download: Big Blood- Old Time Primitives Prior to Big Blood, Woods was the only band I knew of that wrote folk tunes with a style that chilled me to the bone. The band’s last album, Dark Country Magic, didn’t amaze me throughout, but the band had too
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Fisting – unmastered by Bongripper Chicago metal outfit Bongripper deals in all things heavy. If it’s a style of rock that features heavy riffs, and tons of bass, the band has probably indulged in it at some point across the five albums its released since ’06. The group has just
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Projection by biblo Combining ambient textures and mind-numbing drones with dub rhythms, the new Biblo album, Falls Silent, creates a pretty vast soundscape. If it weren’t for the percussion, it might even sound like standing in the middle of the desert at night with no signs of civilization for
