FROM THE SWAMPS

While we're on the topic of death/doom, here's a little something for you.....Brulvahnatu from Canada. A solo project of Kib Sreng, a former member of Antediluvian and black metal cult AMSG, Brulvahnatu warps the formula set by diSEMBOWELMENT by bringing the already quite slow brew to a nauseating churn, not unlike Portal on Outre. Mix that with some saxophone and other ineffable fuckery, and that's what this album is. Yet another unique, extremely imaginative project that has slipped down the endless chasms of Bandcamp, and is more than deserving of being brought to the light. I also love that the album title definitely sounds like you're in for some slam if you put this thing on, ooh how wrong one would be to assume so... Menstrual Extraction Ceremony

Dark and dreamy Byzantian music that evokes the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Look within your inner abyss to this tape... Aporea

Grand Mutation is the result of an hour-long jam session between noise artist Lasse Marhaug and accomplished organist Nils Asheim. Accurate words to describe this album would be (of course) dark...atonal...commanding...hypnotic...and these artists achieve a synergy that works very well.  Another great installment in Marhaug's staggeringly prolific discography. Organ music is perfect for Halloween time, no? Grand Mutation

The Body Lovers were a group of experimental musicians led by Michael Gira following the dissolution of Swans. This album was recently reissued including a previously unreleased track on the second "Body Haters" CD. Below is a description provided by the label (Young God) that is a certainly more apt description than anything I could ever come up with, i.e. 'some pretty dark experimental shit.' " THE BODY LOVERS DEBUT NUMBER ONE OF THREE, IS THE FIRST INSTALLMENT IN THIS "PSYCHOAMBIENT" INSTRUMENTAL "SOUNDTRACK-WITH-OUT-A-FILM" PROJECT. ESSENTIALLY ONE SHIFTING AND RADICALLY MORPHING STREAM OF SOUNDS AND TEXTURES (WITH ID POINTS PROVIDED FOR THE LISTENER'S CONVENIENCE), THE MUSIC ON THIS CD IS IN GIRA'S WORDS, "A METASTASIZING SONIC FLOWER GARDEN", CHARACTERISTICALLY, THIS IS NOT PASSIVE AMBIENT MUSIC. SENSUAL ONE MOMENT, TURNING BRUTAL AND CATACLYSMIC THE NEXT. SOUND SOURCES INCLUDE EVERYTHING FROM ELECTRONIC & SYN...