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The adventure of the angel continues when he approaches a realm where time stands still, yet space shifts endlessly. In the center lies a glass castle, where truth and revelation wander around. It’s there where the seraph’s bride lies in eternal slumber, lifeless yet alive. To get there, Kasriel must face evil beings, vile creatures that cannot enter that heart-of-the fortress themselves, yet that will do anything to stop the protagonist of this story. Disappointment, pain, struggle and anger are on his path; so are hope, alleviation, persuasion.

A short one…

Dream My Life Away is the latest effort by Mister (bleak) under the Carrion moniker. The guy, as you might know, is active as Gold (now called Gold Membership), D¥$FUNCTion, Aspects & Fragments, and several others too, but Carrion might be his most productive outfit.

Militant Liturgy is a sub-label of Gates Of Hypnos, also based on different kinds of Electronic Music (from Dark Ambient over Ambient Noise Wall and Death Industrial to Harsh Noise), yet with a Christian character. Focusing on a connection with Higher Power, rather than blindly following any monotheistic deity, this label expanded into an aural institute of sonic creativity combined with philosophical, theological, introspective and faithful content.

…another chapter within the saga of the Emperor and the King… I ended my series of reviews with the two first releases of the U.T.R.Y.N. set; part three and four were prepared yet never finished because of a lack of [my] time, and the overwhelming productivity (an excellent given for sure, yet in the case of a reviewer it can be a disastrous venom) of Mister Ghafur, that held me back, and so on, and so on… But the story still goes on, through Greed (Vrozlyd), Cruel (Themis), Wound (Obsidian Mirror

Even-though this label, LOUDsilence (do you hear the whispering name, the soft whisper of this moniker?...), exists for a (limited) couple of years (I guess it was spawned from earthly mud and the intestines of our planet at the very beginning of 2024), it is way too underestimated, I think.

Darkened synth music for solitary wanderings through majestic forests, or for the journey into one's own mind with closed eyes and open portals... I think this description is a fitting definition for what the new (?) American project Nightweald stands for. Nightweald is the outfit of some C. Davis, debuting with the demonstrational four-track EP Skogstema. That title comes from Norse and means something like ‘forest theme’, referring to pristine wildlife, Mother Nature, and our affiliation, spiritually, with Earth.

I will keep it short and concise, as one uses to call it. So, first a word about the band, the label, the release and stuff, then an impression about the aural content of this second recording.

The last four-five years, Rojinski used to be one of the most productive projects on Mater Terra. The great(est) thing was that it wasn’t just about quantity, yet above all about quality. Despite the overwhelming number of releases, each of them, without exception, was of a very high standard.

Unfortunately, due to personal issues, the human entity behind the project needed to cease activities. It was understandable; it was comparable to the reason why I stopped writing reviews for almost a year, so I am judiciously understanding.

Depart from me, ye that work iniquity…

When I recently saw a new post by the handsome UK-born Peter B., it did draw my attention immediately. I consider myself a modest ‘fan’ of some of this crazy guy’s projects, such as Carrion, Utterblight and Gold. That post I was just referring to, did pertain the album Sinner, conceived by a new project, which is called Gold Membership.