Heed the guru-ājñā, flexing freely with a painterly intuition — Evocation alone is not enough when mental images […]
atmospheric metal
A singular, lens-void observatory in the deepest reaches of the Sierra Nevada mountains persists its gloom-attuned peering into […]
A natural philosopher pinned behind glass with ear cupped against the cold pane, listening for the sound of […]
Prognosticated by way of angled mirror and only moonlight, the fate of the afflicted reflects a bloodied ghast […]
Throughout life, or whatever version of it I have been living, it has always been events of great […]
While so many naturalist painters dripped toward the Hague School of art to become fixtures beyond the inspired […]
Conceived of the fourth consciousness that’d endure through waking action, dream-states, and peaceful sleep Turia represents the very […]
Back in 2018 Valparaíso, Chile based ritualistic and maddeningly hypnotic black/death metal band Invocation made it clear that […]
From the valley of armageddon sinks a vortex of black and graying sighs from the cart-pusher, his rig […]
Two of the biggest highlights for death metal in 2018 return in unholy unison for this brilliant split […]
Roused ev’ry blurry morning to climb the stairs toward the Sun’s rising in sorrowful Orphic penance, seek an […]
A PENANCE TO HEED, a yearly feature in the form of a list devoted to grouping together albums […]
The bronze seer, an augur and haruspex attuned to so diligently to grand-father Apollo that he could divine […]
Is a long and willfully clenched dread in service of an imagined threat mankind’s greatest physiological achievement? Could […]
Aging, or perhaps more directly ‘maturing’ is akin to space-faring in referencing the experience of the outsider. The […]
Only a damned fool would accept any consensus of the ego-death as a calculable, repeatable experience often portrayed […]
A closed system that’d loop unpredictably until quietly homogeneous in atmosphere yet requires a reconcilable byproduct of its […]
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
Thousands more eyes set their gaze upon the works of Swartadauþuz as 2019 has brought into broader view […]
The artist that would reinvent and experiment by their own free will yet nonetheless set only to tape […]
