From Corners Unknown Compilation Volume 1 is here! After three months of seemingly endless emails, we have finally pulled together our list of phenomenal artists and bands from across Bandcamp. To keep this brief, this compilation features 68 songs spread across 6 different genres. It should be noted that “genre” is used loosely here as so many of these artists transcend the confines of any particular genre descriptor.
The compilation is organized by genre; each one is assigned a letter A through F. Within each genre, the artists are listed alphabetically by project name. Below is a list of genres and their respective letter assignments:
A. Dark Ambient
B. Doom Metal
C. Black Metal
D. Grindcore
E. Drone, Experimental, Avant Garde
F. Hardcore
The tracks contained herein include a mix of songs from albums already released, unreleased material that never made it onto a final EP/LP, as well as some made exclusively for this compilation.
The compilation is set at “name your price” on Bandcamp. All proceeds will be donated to the Cascades Raptor Center in Eugene, OR—a non-profit organization that rehabilitates birds of prey.
A huge, immense, gargantuan thank you to every artist who contributed to this hefty compilation—it would not have been possible without your kindness and support. Thank you to Ryan Brady for the astounding and ethereal artwork. And thank you to everyone who listens to all (or some) of these tracks, supports the website, and most importantly, gives these bands their time and attention. The full list of the artists featured on this compilation can be perused below.
Side A is a brooding miasma of dark ambient.
A1. Code Neda
Song Contributed: Blood on Your Hands
From: Karlsruhe, Germany
Project Description: “CodeNeda is a project of Michel Götting that has resulted from outward circumstances. Violence, war and death to determine the age of enlightenment in our time. As regular visitors to interact with Markus Kropfreiter of Drape Excrements and Art Konkret.”
A2. <1
Song Contributed: Mycelium, Pt. 1
From: U.K.
Project Description:
- 1999-2003 Leeds – Leeds Music College & Vector Collective, releases on Fencing flatworm, OTO, Trademarkerd Industries & Evelyn Records.
- 2003-2006 London – Releases on Evelyn Records.
- 2006 – 2014 Hiatus
- 2014 – Present <1 et al. projects released via Bandcamp.
A3. Metalique
Song Contributed: Lamashtu
From: Portugal
Project Description: “I do experimental.”
A4. //mKnoise
Song Contributed: Everything Has Come Full Circle
From: Austria
Project Description: “Musique non concrète.
Experiments on electronic tunes.”
A5. Moloch Conspiracy
Song Contributed: Baal Sacrifice
From: France
Project Description: “Moloch Conspiracy is a dark ambient music project run since 2017.”
A6. Nadeshda
Song Contributed: Growling Low of Dark Secret Places
From: Linz, Austria
Project Description: “I do not limit this project to any genre… Life ends… Always…”
A7. NERATERRÆ
Song Contributed: Deeper Down
From: Italy
Project Description: “NERATERRÆ is an eerie and deep drone ambient / dark ambient music project run by Alessio Antoni. It was started back in 2009 under the former name NHART.”
A8. Niculta
Song Contributed: Cold Insomnia
From: Italy
Project Description: “The Niculta project was born at the end of 2014 from Nico Döring from Germany, an electronic musician since 1994. He was looking for a project, where he could put in all the darkness he was surrounded from. So the Niculta project became more and more a therapeutic way to stay balanced and calmed and being able to enjoy a simple and wonderful living. He often finds ways to express what’s in his mind through Dark Ambient soundscapes, haunting rhythms or simple 4 to 4 beats with driving atmospheres. His music is influenced by almost two decades of electronic music.”
A9. Noctilucant
Song Contributed: Threnody of the End
From: Milwaukee, WI
Project Description: “Noctilucant is a dark ambient project willed into this world by one J. Mlodik in July of 2015.
Originally initiated as a dark cinematic entity exploring themes of ruin, loss, and despair during an age of ruin; the project has also dove deep into the unknown ocean depths, meandered through unfathomable nightmares, dabbled in soundtrack work and taken listeners to completely unidentifiable realms.”
A10. Sana Obruent
Song Contributed: Sagami Bay
From: Somewhere in California
Project Description: “Verum musicum (by Erik Satie)
Qui proficit in sapientia … … clara est et didicit carere
sacrificia magna etparatus sit ad sacrificia ingenti … …
si dici potest sua industria … est ingenti …
… In certamen paratum est ad honestatem et ipse pugnabit is ...”
A11. Scattered Lodges
A12. Urs Wild
Song Contributed: The Sound of the Void
From: Switzerland
Project Description: “Urs Wild is a swiss producer, of mainly electronic music, for over twenty years. His passion includes all variations of Ambient music and further Techno, Electronica and Drum’n’Bass. On July 22nd 2017, his first Dark Ambient album “Hidden Universe” was released by Eighth Tower Records. It received positive critique through reviews and listeners alike.”
A13. Zalys
Song Contributed: Out of Time
From: France
Project Description: “Electronic / Dark Ambient / Drone
Highly influenced by futuristic, sci-fi, space and post- apocalyptic themes.
All the releases are concept albums with a unique atmosphere. It can be dark, orchestral or electronic. You will always be stuck in the coldness and wonders of space.”
Side B harbors a myriad of doom metal and its bleak variants.
B1. Abysmal Growls of Despair
B2. Ancestral Vision
Song Contributed: Anšar Kišar
From: Italy
Project Description: “Ancestral Vision is a newborn project of Warrior (Aisna, Stige). It is a mixture of experimental death metal, doom metal, noise and atmospheric music. The first full length, Akitu, is a death/doomish noise metal with vocals and lyrics written in ancient Babylonian/Cccadian language, taken from the ancient Enuma Elish text, the oldest story concerning the birth of the gods and the creation of the universe. The title of the album is the ancient new year festival in Mesopotamia, where it was recited the ancient poem. The project is influenced by themes of ancient cultures, religions, and prehistoric behaviours.”
B3. Apotelesma
Song Contributed: Remnants
From: Netherlands
Project Description: “Apotelesma (formerly known as Monuments) is a doom metal band from the Netherlands. Formed in January 2012, we are a five-headed formation exploring the darker regions of metal, without a fixed style in mind. Our lyrical concepts revolve around nature and esotericism.”
B4. Gaul
Song Contributed: Passages
From: Gainesville, FL
Project Description: “Blackened doom.”
B5. Goryl
Song Contributed: Snakes
From: Tennessee
Project Description: “A line of poetry written with a splash of blood – a sonic reminder that you will suffer many hardships and adversities, but you will not die until the day appointed for you doom. Through the light of shaman’s torch, the snake and this sonic reminder seem to be your only signs for survival.”
B6. L.o.W
Song Contributed: Tear Me Open
From: Szczecin, Poland
Project Description: “Doom/Stoner/Sludge Metal band from Poland.”
B7. LaColpa
Song Contributed: Scars
From: Alessandria, Italy
Project Description: “Acting against moral norms. Sin. No limitations. No restrictions. No atonement. Guilty. All.”
B8. Midmourner
Song Contributed: A Year We’ve Filled With Empty
From: Birmingham, AL
Project Description: “Subterranean Dopesick Blues.”
B9. Plague of Carcosa
Song Contributed: Rats In The Walls
From: Chicago, IL
Project Description: “The plague will spread throughout this realm. Starting within the darkest corners of Chicago, the cult began to write invocations of the Old Ones in the summer of 2016, and as more members have joined, the sound changed from ethereal drone to dark, fuzz soaked doom. Nods to Lovecraft, Chambers, pour out through the amplifiers and tug at the minds of mortals. This disease, this Plague of Carcosa, is spreading beyond your world.”
B10. REA
Song Contributed: Odos-Ou
From: Terni, Italy
Project Description: “REA is an italian slow-core band from Terni, Italy. Formed in 2017, the band was founded by
Luca Bagnara (lead vocals, bass), Federico D’isanto (lead guitar), Simone Camiciola (drums). Their music is noisy dissonant melodies and obssessive rythms:
screaming uncomfortable and unpopular issues,
with references to classical and modern culture.”
B11. Talsur
Song Contributed: Barely Breathing
From: Russia
Project Description: “One-man doom metal band. Formed in October 2015. Lyrical themes – loneliness, despair, hopelessness. Each album is different from the previous one. The first two – atmospheric doom, the third – stoner doom, the fourth is funeral doom. And the fifth may be anything else, who knows. Talsur has no any videoclips or concerts. Just music, just doom. One man against the world.”
Side C contains wintry and unrelenting howls of black metal.
C1. Aisna
Song Contributed: La Via degli Dei
From: Italy
Project Description: “Aisna is a black metal one-man band influenced by Etruscan culture. It was originally a neofolk project based on natural themes and released two demos recorded in a natural environment on vinyl CDr in 2015 and 2017. In 2017 Aisna absorbed the black metal project Februus, which released a demo called “Sacnisa” on Masked Dead Records (on MCD) and Defiled Light (on tape). “Sacnisa” was re-released on Xenoglossy Productions under the Aisna moniker in July 2017. In October 2017, Aisna released a split CD with the black metal noise band, Batrakos. They lyrics are written in Italian and ancient Etruscan language.”
C2. Astrum Malum
Song Contributed: Curia Sancti Sepulcri
From: Helsinki, Finland
Project Description: “Astrum Malum is my Doom-oriented and slightly Industrial influenced Blackened band, with lyrics dealing with the pitfalls of Western civilization on a personal and societal level, with themes of philosophy, psychology, religions and myths in there as well. The lyrics are translated from my English into classical Latin by my good Polish friend Andy, who also does some of the vocals.”
C3. Bloodbark
Song Contributed: Eyeless Winter
From: Unknown
Project Description: “Atmospheric black metal.”
C4. Erebos
Song Contributed: Halls of Mandos
From: Poland
Project Description: “Solo project of Erebos (Srogość, Narrenshyff) which was born in the winter of 2016. It’s a tribute to John R. R. Tolkien life’s work of which Erebos is a long-time enthusiast.”
C5. Huszar
Song Contributed: Providencia IV – De Los Cometas En Llamas Hicimos Vuestro Culto
From: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Project Description: “One-man Post Black Metal/Blackgaze band from Buenos Aires, Argentina, formed in 2015.”
C6. Inner Suffering
Song Contributed: Forever Pessimist
From: Ukraine
Project Description: “Endless suffering.”
C7. Lóstregos
C8. Manharana
C9. Sguaguarahchristis
Song Contributed: Visionary Wanderer
From: Italy
Project Description: “Arcane sidereal black metal.”
C10. Terrestrial Chaos
Song Contributed: Sanity Counterpart
From: Bratislava, Slovakia
Project Description: “Once upon a time when dark clouds flooded the heavens and skies started to bleed, the depths of pure chaos spit out four demons to bring their empire to this world.”
C11. Tired Lord
Side D features mounds of filthy riffs and unhinged vocals.
D1. Barren of Shape
Song Contributed: Solipsism
From: Belgium
Project Description: “Bringing the funk back to sludge.”
D2. Bled To Submission
Song Contributed: Of Blood And Bile
From: Nashville, TN
Project Description: “Experimental Sludge Grind from middle TN. Bringing together the blistering speed and filth of grindcore with the thick march of sludge and doom, creating one of the most unique metal bands in the South.”
D3. Decline
D4. Fentanyl Surprise
Song Contributed: Contaminated Drinking Water
From: U.S.
Project Description: “TWO-PIECE GORE.”
D5. Hacksaw
D6. MouthBreather
Song Contributed: Tourniquet
From: Lowell, MA
Project Description: “MouthBreather is an Experimental Hardcore band formed in December of 2015. Based out of Lowell, MA, the group is comprised of Ryan (age 26, Guitars), Anthony (age 24, Vocals), Nick (age 26, Percussion). They have released a sample of their music on Pig, available on all streaming platforms and Bandcamp.”
D7. Shroud
Song Contributed: Lung Roast
From: Massachusetts
Project Description: “At some point you became a husk, you realized you are unimportant. Life is advertisements and complaints from everything and everyone that means nothing to you,interrupted occasionally with fleeting moments of relief and release. They are never enough. Constantly stuck in the tug of war between logic and emotion, pulled as if you were roped between two horses. You are always stretched too thin and never in the right place. There is nothing worthwhile except shedding your humanity and baring your inner wretch for the world to see.
Always speak your mind. Never settle.”
D8. SLAB
Song Contributed: Mosquito Massacre
From: Imola, Italy
Project Description: “Rumore 100% D.I.Y.”
D9. Slund
D10. SOUNDING
Song Contributed: Gonzo at the Bohemian Grove
From: New Orleans, LA
Project Description: “The title of SOUNDING’s debut record is most apt in what you will receive when you listen to it: a massive fucking burr hole in your skull. Trepanation is fifteen minutes of hardcore punk, chaotic grindcore; a gravel blast of noise. The vocals screech at frequencies so loud, words become static. Through the fusillade of double kicks and blast beats, the wails of distortion, the mucky bass, you will remain forever disoriented in your understanding of harsh music. These guys transcend the sonic limits of brutality.”
D11. Throat Breach
Song Contributed: Shattered Orbital Bones
From: Kansas City, MO
Project Description: “Boiling, tar soaked, sludgy grindcore from the Midwest cesspool.”
D12. TUER
D13. Whelm
Song Contributed: Penitence
From: Los Angeles, CA
Project Description: “Los Angeles. Heavy band.”
D14. YATTAÏ
Song Contributed: Spazz Isn’t Dead
From: Angoulême, France
Project Description: “The band was created in 2004/2005 with the aim of doing grinding stuff, that’s it! YATTAÏ plays hard-boiled grindcore : fast and furious stuff with lot of influences taken from crust and death metal, to post-core and doom.”
Side E is an all-consuming tide of drone and avant-garde soundscapes.
E1. Ad Marginem
E2. Bleach For The Stars
Song Contributed: Slugs Aren’t Dangerous
From: Harwich, U.K.
Project Description: “Grotesque rhythmic industrial. Avant-garde noise-poetry. Harrowing psychobiographical dark ambient. Life, and the times in between.”
E3. Catacombed
E4. Children of the Greyscale Rainbow
Song Contributed: DAWN
From: Otago, New Zealand
Project Description: “???”
E5. Draconian Temple
E6. Evolverman
Song Contributed: Vigilant for the Dawn of Signs
From: Dublin, Ireland
Project Description: “Evolverman is a solo project launched early 2016. In parts ambient, post-rock and neoclassical.
Evolverman is also a member of the Mangled Music Collective.”
E7. Horned Goddess
Song Contributed: Vinterns gudinna
From: Svensgöl, Sweden
Project Description: “Northern drone doom.”
E8. Leonard Donat
Song Contributed: Escarpment Fells
From: Königs Wusterhausen, Germany
Project Description: “Drone/ambient project from the mind of Alexander Donat (Vlimmer, Fir Cone Children, Blackjack Illuminist Records).”
E9. phonux
E10. Woony Hax
Song Contributed: In the Back Field
From: Edmonton, Alberta
Project Description: “Having been introduced at a very young age to the groundbreaking music of the greats Jimi Hendrix, Kraftwerk, Emerson Lake and Palmer Woony Hax wasted no time in developing an penchant for cutting edge sounds. He has never shied away from the adoption of new tech. to accomplish his creative ends. His work displays a proficiency in sound sculpting matched with a penchant for intricate structure.”
Side F unleashes a slough of sludge, crust and abrasive hardcore.
F1. American Standards
F2. Filthy Hate
F3. GEIST
F4. Goshen
Song Contributed: Cost of Life
From: Corona, CA
Project Description: “Noisy hardcore from the Inland Empire.”
F5. Iron Worzel
Song Contributed: Controlled Clusterfuck
From: Adelaide, South Australia
Project Description: “Sludge stoner violence and Gummridge rock.”
F6. Mourning
F7. Pilori
Song Contributed: Le Baiser
From: Rouen, France
Project Description: “Pilori was formed in Rouen (Normandy) during the summer of 2015 at the instigation of members (or former members) of Nuisible, The Birds End, Venosa, Elephants, Sutter Cane, Kansas City Shuffle or Toboggan, eager to set up a mix of crust, grind, hardcore, powerviolence, and black metal influences.”
F8. Robot
Song Contributed: Never Alone
From: Scarborough, Ontario
Project Description: “SCARBOROUGH HARDCORE.”
F9. STUNTMAN
Song Contributed: The Scourge
From: Sète, France
Project Description: “Born on Autumn 2002, from Sète (south of France). Many line up changes. More than 200 shows and 7 tours in Europe; some with Coalesce, Nails, Russian Circles, Jucifer, Genghis Tron, Child Abuse, Kongh or Mumakil.“
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Thank you again for reading or least glancing at the list of bands/artists that contributed to this compilation. There are many more interviews and conversations to come in the following months from these artists.
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