PSYCHONAUT 4: “…OF MOURNING”

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Oct 302024
 

(We present Didrik Mešiček‘s review of the newest album by Psychonaut 4, which was released on October 25th by Immortal Frost Productions.)

Georgia (or Sakartvelo as the Georgians call it) is the country you may know as the birthplace of Stalin or as the country that invented wine. You win some, you lose some, I suppose.

Personally, I’m not a fan of either but it is a country I’m definitely going to at some point, as it looks absolutely beautiful with its lovely mix of high Caucasus mountains and the shores of the Black sea. But because that makes Georgian life look too positive here’s another Georgian export – the depressive suicidal black metal band, Psychonaut 4, whose new album was released on the 25th of October. Continue reading »

SHADES OF BLACK: SORDIDE, PSYCHONAUT 4, AMYSTERY, ALTA ROSSA, APOTHECARY, CELEPATHY, ANCESTRAL CÂNTICO, SILHOUETTE, PAYSAGE D’HIVER

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Oct 132024
 


Sordide, photo by Jeremy Tiercelin

(written by Islander)

Over the past week I added an even 30 new songs or complete releases to my list of black and blackish metal that I wanted to check out in building today’s column. That was on top of how the list stood a week ago, already wobbly from its ungainly height.

As usual, I didn’t have time to check out all 30. In a handful of instances, I defaulted to previously proven names. For others, I had dependable recommendations. And for others, I went exploring, based on glimpses of one thing or another (artwork, lineup, location, conceptual framework) that I thought were interesting.

Here’s what came out at the end of the sifting, with the choices due in part to how the music fit together in my head, sometimes complementing and sometimes contrasting. Continue reading »