Tag: industrial
HIMUKALT transgresses into depravity to reveal traumatic truths
The future is now. We are living in the epoch that past generations and science fiction authors have speculated on with hope and wonder, only ours is lacking the gloss of sentimentality and narrative structure. …
XIPHOID DEMENTIA plumbs a pulsating hellscape with new single “Essence Concussion”
In a time of despair, uncertainly, illness, and death, Covenant is proud to present the first single from soundscape mastermind Xiphoid Dementia’s latest offering Prison of Hope; out now on Boston based label Divergent Series. …
HISSING disavows catharsis to embrace suffering
Modern death metal has gone through yet another resurgence of heightened invigoration in the last few years, with a particular concentration of perpetuating and reimagining ‘old school’ elements, and to magnificent effect. When death metal …
BLACK EARTH deliver a Pandora’s Box of torturous perfection on “Gnarled Ritual of Self Annihilation”
Fans of Abruptum and Gnaw Their Tongues take note! Black Earth present us with their sophomore release that can only be described as schizophrenia given form. Densely layered waves of noise, chaos, and pure black …
TREPANERINGSRITUALEN turns back towards primal urges with “ᛉᛦ — Algir; eller Algir i Merkstave”
Trepaneringsritualen, for anyone who’s been following the darkest corners of the post-industrial underground over the last fifteen years or so, needs no introduction. Building up a reputation for their punishing live performances, pounding rhythms, heavy-as-fuck …
SATURN’S CROSS EP ‘Possession’ unleashed now on Covenant Records – Listen to the full stream
Covenant Records is proud to debut the digital release of Saturn’s Cross EP Possession (CVNNT007). Written and recorded across the winter and spring of this year, the EP represents an enormous step-up in songwriting and …
LINGUA IGNOTA fuses the sacred & profane into a tragic statement of triumph with “Caligula”
Ask the average music listener to define “heavy”. Perhaps chugging riffs, breakneck speed, grotesque and offensive lyrics gurgled through a phlegm lined throat that seems to only despise and hate? Yes, that is heavy. To …
SENTIENT RUIN Roundup: Miscarriage, Sutekh Hexen, and Suspiral intent
A trio of mind-bending tape releases has emerged from the Bay Area’s Sentient Ruin in recent months, with Miscarriage, Sutekh Hexen and Suspiral intent on royally ruining your evening. As the hideous musical propaganda arm …
GRIDFAILURE moans of a thousand encroaching illnesses with “Sixth Mass Extinction Skulduggery I”
Gridfailure is sickness given aural form as the experimental project of madman Dave Brenner (ex-Theologian), and marks a departure from his death industrial treatments in favor of hallucinogenic sound collages bringing to mind legends like …
DEAFKIDS defies Brazilian political brutality with pounding energetic chaos on “Metaprogramação”
Nearing the beginning of a new decade, 2020, a year once shrouded in myth, the essence of underground music has been unfaltering in the face of its adversaries; but even as we reach the homogenization …