REVIEW: Drohtnung - In Dolorous Sights

Filthy disturbing sludgey blackened depressive metal atrocities from Western Australian band Drohtnung, who my ritual noise projects Grist and Haraam played with when they toured Melbourrne last year.  Review penned for Heathen Harvest, and minimally edited by the inexhaustible Mr Sage Weatherford.

"It’s a complete fucking mess, and it’s awesome.  A lot of the time, it’s nigh on impossible to discern the actual riffs and rhythms here, hidden and warped as they are behind grandly flat-lined drums and willfully anguished vocal screeches, the whole thing thoroughly abused into a solid crushing square-wave of hopeless texture and utter cacophony."

Drohtnung - In Dolorous Sights

REVIEW: Old Burial Temple – Inner Temple Mutilation

Dark primal neoshamanic drone-rituals from dark primal neoshamanic Western Australia, courtesy of the not-entirely-well Old Burial Temple.   Black audio magic at its very finest.  Review published by Heathen Harvest, somewhat edited by the power-mad but actually quite decent Sage Weatherford.

"Old Burial Temple spoke of absolute mental obliteration, hearing voices, fearing unseeable presences, and waking up and having no recollection of making some of the recordings at all.  This wasn’t mentioned to me as any sort of marketing trick or press-release schtick; it was stated matter-of-factly as we chatted over a beer, and from the look in his eyes as he recounted the stranger stories, I could tell he was still scared (and scarred) by what he’d been through."

 Old Burial Temple – Inner Temple Mutilation