Ecstatically disturbed.

Ecstatically disturbed.
Concise ramblings of some relatively fresh tracks and EPs: sloppy punk, planet-demolishing sludge, a synthwave cover, plus a litany of other timbres.
Accursed black metal, the sound of anathema.
Briefer album reviews of the latest albums from Beneath the Massacre (Fearmonger), Benighted (Obscene Repressed), Black Curse (Endless Wound), and DVT (To the Great Monolith II).
“Oh, come with old Khayyám, and leave the Wise
To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies;
One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies;
The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.”
Peering behind the veil of loss.
An album review podcast of Hallucinogen, an amethyst-hued, psychedelic trip from Blut Aus Nord.
An uncanny mosaic of emotions from a glacial dreamworld.
Dissections of sounds arcane and apoplectic.
What sets Les Grandes Compagnies apart is its timbre. The sonic quality of the music, its overall texture, is so much more welcoming than the slicing distortion and overpowering drums (and sometimes terrible mixing) that are generally indicative of a traditional black metal album.
In episode twenty-seven, we vacate the halls of bone and flesh to journey to the quirky, synth-laden krautrock mountain of worms on Return to Worm Mountain’s eponymous LP. We get doused in the effervescent ambient energy of FOUDRE!’s Kami 神 and we get smoked out by the delectably hefty stoner doom crunch of Azimuth from Summoned by Giants.
An in-depth discussion of the 1960 French horror film, Eyes Without a Face, directed by Georges Franju and scored by Maurice Jarre.