REVIEW: Ak’Chamel, The Giver of Illness – The Man Who Drank God

I love this band lots, and this new release was no exception.  Review written for Heathen Harvest, and gingerly edited by the very decent Sage Weatherford.

"I find myself lost in a surreal fog of antique strangeness, lo-fi ritual, and occult chaos-magic, so far outside of the fickle trends of the now that it transcends anachronism and becomes something almost otherworldly."

Ak’Chamel, The Giver of Illness – The Man Who Drank God

REVIEW: Ak’Chamel, The Giver of Illness – My Form Has Been Extinguished

The most difficult review I have ever written.  Because I love this band so so much, and I liked their VHS cassette so very very little.  Written for Heathen Harvest, and barely edited by Sage Weatherford.

"In my heart of hearts, I honestly believe that this is just a collection of cool footage that was combined to look mysterious, without any real greater agenda than that: to seem cool and weird, and maybe trip someone out a little, as something for the eyes to do while the ears digest the music—music which, I insist, is still incredible."

Ak’Chamel, The Giver of Illness – My Form Has Been Extinguished

REVIEW: Ak'Chamel, The Giver of Illness - Pus Ch'en

A review of a wildly low-fi strange occultic band called 'Ak'Chamel, The Giver of Illness', written for Heathen Harvest, and gently edited by Sage Weatherford.

"Pus Ch’en takes that ghastly low-fi necro aesthetic and uses it to evoke tribal dances and ancient temple orgies, druidic glossolalia, and weird clashes of tikis and antlers.  It never quite makes sense."

Ak'Chamel, The Giver of Illness - Pus Ch'en