Vampiric Militant Legions is a new label from Transylvanian soil, focusing on Black Metal in the first place. The first release was 2025’s Quintaescensia Nocturna by Chilean horde Umbrío (unfortunately I haven’t had the time to write a review about this recording; maybe I still will in the future), and with Vampiric Oath’s Doctrines Of Withering Nature, this promising label comes up with a second sonic monster.
A short introduction about this project… Hiemis is the name of a musical outfit by Juan Carlos Toledo, who runs the young yet fabulous Ominous Sounds label too, known for releases by e.g. Rune Clausen, Monotone Murk and Altum, and for some excellent ‘various artists’ releases that deal with the history, psychology and philosophy of magic, ceremony and belief in ancient times.
[PR: Anubi Press]
[older release, never too late to be highlighted…]
A secret to share, a promise to be kept…
Even though the album The Erosion Of Innocence will soon celebrate its first anniversary, I still feel the urge to write down my (in-depth / interesting / innocent / naïve / necessary / clumsy - cross out what does not apply) thoughts about it…
Once again, several members of the Centipede Abyss community join forces under a new constellation; this time under the moniker Dandelion. The band’s name comes from a genus of plants, the taraxacum, characterized by their multiple petals, mainly white, yellow or orange colored. But this isn’t an essay about the beauty of nature, but about the beauty of sonic delirium.
Can you imagine my excitement? Quite recently, Monsieur Stu from Aesthetic Death informed me about a new Goatpsalm release. Hurray! Seriously, it had been way too long, for this act’s latest official recording (Downstream) was released in 2016 – with exception of Ash, the (unique) work with side-project Horthodox (which I have not reviewed, apparently??? – I feel ashamed).
Züüd is (or was? I’m not sure whether this project is still active???) an outfit by Portugal-born sweetie Nuno Laurenço, based in Brazil.
Ominous Sounds is a young label from Iberian soil, run by Hiemis chieftain Juan Carlos Toledo, and specialized in the more ritualistic niche of Dark Ambient material and related Music. Beside releases from ‘individual’ projects (Monotone Murk, Rune Clausen, Altum), the label also focuses on compiled releases, i.e. so-called ‘various artists’ albums, compilations with projects that sort of wander around in comparable dimensions of archaic ritualism.
Short introduction… ElectronicDeathBlackDogs, aka Electronic Death Black Dogs, are a productive project from Scotland, UK, run by Roddy Graham. Once again, Roddy wrote and performed everything himself, and he took care of the production too.
Almost two years ago (at this moment of posting), Brotherhood Of Sleep released their first album, Devotional Hymns To A Brilliant Flaming Sun (via the mighty Dutch label Winter-Light). I was enormously impressed by the result, which I labeled in my personal files as ‘obscure and hypnotic Deep Trance / Ceremonial Drone / Dark Ritual Ambient’ (I can’t help it that my autistic alter-ego adores making lists of different things, hehe). Earlier this year, this project came up with the sophomore album, called Enter The Nuummite Cosmos.
