A mysterious holiday snap for you

I took loads of photos of recent tapes so I could post them while I’m away, in lieu of video uploads I also tidied up my phone, deleting old photos off to make space for holiday snaps bcz it was full. You know what I’m going to say next. Why does Apple put new photos into the old folders?!!!

I am on holidays but I’ve still got a few bangers queued up on the channel Today, the synapse-frying new album of j-horror black metal from Saidan - Fangdriller: Scars Beneath Memory's Wrist youtu.be/kn1MonXDHi0

Completed it mate For now

New Saidan hyyyyyype!! It’s goddam great. Full album stream coming to the channel on Friday.

Second (of two) features of DS Sunday is this foray into the grim and oppressive twilight realms of dungeon doom, from Star Mace - Meandering Dreams Of Forgotten Times youtu.be/d-i61WrZvQM

Spopielony - Z Podziemi Starting DS Sunday with an album of live-recorded hypnagogic dark ambient youtu.be/mhYLc2ltsuU

by some strange coincidence, as well as Lycan Castle on Phatom Lure, today I have listened to Wolven on Phantom Order and that is not the last wolfy thing for today.... phantomorder.bandcamp.com/album/wolven

I am honoured to have contributed liner notes to this new Lycan Castle collection. Awesome work by @phantomlure.bsky.social compiling five of the most lupine-centric demos from this primal Myst project, into a cool VHS box, with short, patch and.....words by me. www.phantomlure.com/products/lyc...

ohh, is Instagram broken?

new Harifa album out today on @matriarchrecords.bsky.social raw wiccan atmospherics from the Devonshire wilds harifa.bandcamp.com/album/alexit...

got distracted from what I'm supposed to be listening to by revisiting this masterpiece of cavernous lo-fidelity from the Pembrokeshire Black Circle pembrokeshireblackcircle.bandcamp.com/album/full-m...

I guess I'll just listen to the new Saidan again then. tape is in transit....so close! album is an absolute ripper, as you'd hope. The soundtrack to the Summer is nearly here.

Have some new raw ritualistic black metal from the subterranea of Indonesia youtu.be/V7GnKO0rJFA

Posted this for DS Sunday yesterday. A marvellously inspired release from Foglord that pits Appalachian folk finger picking acoustic music against an eerie backdrop of dungeon ambience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DexV...

Been so busy this week I haven't actually collected many new things to listen to. Going to have to dig into the dusty crates of last month! not played the new Svrm yet, so here we go svrm.bandcamp.com/album/--16

What a stacked day of releases!

Happy new Boards of Canada day to you all By strange coincidence, suitably titled for the weather we are having here. boardsofcanada.bandcamp.com/album/inferno

Four ancient lore-steeped tracks invoking druidic ritual depravity and astral descent into the void. youtu.be/xkSiD8kqkjg

Nice, finally. Playlists in Bandcamp on desktop. I never really bothered to make any on my phone, other than these two little test ones. Will I make anything with these now? I dunno. Possibly.

new Mystiskaos project is, as you'd expect, all consuming blackened psychedelia of the highest order auzawandils.bandcamp.com/album/laste-...

Today I have the latest album of ecological experimental blackened doom from Escaping Agartha An odyssey into the lives of eels through aquatic perils - natural and man-made - in a grand opera of epic soundscaping. released via @fiadh.bsky.social & Hypnotic Dirge youtu.be/IAQq4-LP50c

New Mirror Revelations album out today fuzz-heavy overdriven motorik psych hypnotism if yr into that kind of thing mirrorrevelations.bandcamp.com/album/gnea

Vihurienkeli - self titled album on the channel now Raw mystical black metal from the Pacific Northwest US collective Hidden Dawn. This one comes by way of Finland, following a split last year with Kaikkivaltias. youtu.be/YrhXyNdyfeU

this track has such a badass mood. lunar-amulet.bandcamp.com/track/yoke-o...

It is the case that I get so many messages and emails that I can't reply to them all, but what kills me is I can't even reply to all of the ones I WANT to reply to. I probably overthink my replies and build them up to have to be more than they need to be. I dunno. feels bad tho

OK!

Artwork of the year on this, without question. Ghost Tears - Endless Turmoil, and the Cold Chain ov Damnation Phantasmal ambient black metal, from the US. Released to 12" though Jems Label today. The only stream available is the channel. youtu.be/Ke4EBwDdnQ8

I must be having an incredibly senior moment. I feel like I have never seen this island/s before in my life. Italy, Sicily, Mallorca, Manoirca, yeah all good. This massive island?? What is it called? wtf? I feel like I'm losing my mind. lmao

Starting the day with the new album of noise ambient from Tomb Mold drummer Death Kneel lifeofsensation.bandcamp.com/album/rememb...

Today I bring you a recently recently unsettling susurration from the depths of the Centipede Abyss. Lux Sine Lumine’s minimally titled third album offers two long-form tracks of unspooling dread and contorted disturbances from the swirling chaos of the warp. youtu.be/6LPkGtEksoE

Busy day today, almost didn’t get to mention my DS Sunday features! First, a split release of grim folkloric ambience and dark, carnivorous dungeon synth from Stake of Hawthorn and Strigidae - Silent Wings Upon a Forlorn Forest youtu.be/4gXr9Hd69G8

The long awaited dungeon synth photography book from @peterbeste.bsky.social has been revealed. Looks fantastic. pre-orders up now hatandbeard.com/products/dun...

The latest EP from Luna Pythonissam is another intoxicating spell of the duo’s signature gloomy blackgaze. youtu.be/eeDk3rSFfR0

The fourth release from the unearthly spirit realm of the Nocturnal Necromantic Order. Kärnėolrîîng’s Tenebrous Manifestations of Medieval Cruelty is a 27 minute demo tape of the darkest Dungeon Synth, written under deep trance and recorded in complete solitude by .:.B.V.W.:. youtu.be/up_jQ_Bk_34

On the channel today, advance stream of the debut full length album of doomy post-black walls of noise, from Italian band Ivoire. youtu.be/M3GSzADID2c

Cast my vote in the Welsh elections this morning. I prefer to view it constructively, for party policies, and feel it is unfortunate albeit inevitable much campaiging has been framed as stopping Reform....but sometimes far too simplistically so.....that said....

Today I bring you eight tracks of feral lo-fi guerrilla black metal from the northern woods of Maine, by the artist known as He Who Wields the Blade in their incarnation as Corrughadh. youtu.be/JP934pcA8IE

Day out at Skomer Island

Feels like an especially big and busy bandcamp Friday today. Quite overwhelming, more than usual. Amongst it all, on the channel today, I have the new Ysbrydnos album - named, and sounding like 'Welsh Mythical Darkness' An album of ancient magicks and naturalistic energies youtu.be/dveaUjTObJg

Got a great one for you today. The debut demo from Noja. An Icelandic band playing a feral form of psychedelic black metal that exhumes the sleeping spirits of the ancient tundra to a séance with their primeval visions. Or as they call it; ‘death metal on acid‘ youtu.be/a2ga_Qcjbb4

damn, this is badass. filthy dirgey blackened noise punk, like some horrific cross between Cruel Master, Bone Awl, DeafKids and WOLD fleckentarn.bandcamp.com/album/feu-du...

Telikekh Hektakht - Ihmisten Ikuinen Kärsimys (NNO-002) The sound of crumbling tombs and decaying bones The second release from the Nocturnal Necromantic Order youtu.be/XEibmIC1y6A

this is sad news. sorry to hear this. Dolphins Into the Future especially got a lot of playtime from me.

Slow motion tar-dense groove-grinding death doom from Jared Moran, irrupted through the corrupted chthonic void of the Centipede Abyss.  youtu.be/QTTwiUUUnE4

New Blood Countess is out today too. killer vampyric malevolence,as always. Will have it on the channel in a week or so, but for now, the source: bloodcountess.bandcamp.com/album/impera...

Ohhhhh. new Scimitar today. Smashing! on Crypt of the Wizard cryptofthewizard.bandcamp.com/album/scimit...

Tonight I post the first release from the Nocturnal Necromantic Order as I begin to upload their entire catalogue, at the label's request. First is Lëkhtrekh Tëlkoth. A name with a lineage descended from the LLN and a sound that shares dungeon doom vibrations of Ghoëst youtu.be/hyrZ8RZx5tE

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a resolutely merciless and fiercely executed rush of old school black metal from Primordial Serpent one of the most consistently sharp bands around, particularly among those one-man bands that give off full band energy youtu.be/xjxHsOZr_xY