Extreme Musical Contrasts from the Underground

Tomoroh Hidari: Black Star #7 (The Black Star Variations – laridae)
hvíldarlauss dauðr: into the dreams of the living (through the corpse door)
Whispers of Ghosts: Cloudy Memory of Rain (Simultaneous Silence - Black Drone records)
Inner Blast: Open Minds (Sleepless Monster EP – Infektion records)
Dolphins Into The Future: Fourth Possible Musics 2 (Various Artists: Space Keen - Keen)
Typhonic Age: Storm the Heavens (Storm the Heavens)
Tzii: La Lame Tiendra (Various Artists: Le Parfum De Jean – Earsheltering)
The Illusionary Contortionist: I Am The Lost Prophet (Euphoria)
Sonic Deadhorse: E.C.F.A. (Edacious China Fucking Asshole) (Everyone Can Beat a Deadhorse - Sociopath recordings)
Destruction From Within: Sacrifice (Shadows in the Mist)
i AM esper: A Drone For A Vast Ocean (A Drone For A Vast Ocean)
Wolfhorde: Shamanhunt (Deathknot EP)
TOBC: Heart of Darkness (Heart of Darkness - Darker Than Black records)
Bass Communion: Carrion (Cenotaph – Tonefloat records)

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Tomoroh Hidari - The Black Star Variations

hvíldarlauss dauðr - through the corpse door

Typhonic Age - Storm the Heavens

Various Artists - Le Parfum De Jean

The Illusionary Contortionist - Euphoria


Sonic Deadhorse - Everyone Can Beat a Deadhorse

Destruction From Within - Shadows in the Mist

i AM esper - A Drone For A Vast Ocean

Kicks was asked by the Austrian site gothic.at to send in a best of 2011… Gladly we tried to create a list, but being not so great at making those (it’s always an endless list when we try to put everything we like in it) it has worked out to be a list (in alphabetical order) of things that really stuck in our minds this year. Enjoy the list at http://www.gothic.at/artikel/stories/best-of-2011.html,651, there are some very fine best of’s contributed by others.

Descending Darkness: Leid (Seelenruhe - Ashen productions)
Swampwolf: Movement III: Pizza and Wings at Satan’s House, Part 1 (Demo 2011)
Brennendes Gehirn: Annihilation (Awakens New Life) (Epidemics of the Modern Age (2011 demo))
Ravanger: Hatred for Mankind (From the Depths…)
Comatose Vigil: Autophobia (Fuimus, Non Sumus - Solitude productions)
Basement Disharmonic Orchestra: First Movement (Ballad for Stockhausen)
Diablery: Vanity Of Darkness (The Eye)
Armblast: The Will To Power (Psilosoma)
Cameron Steele: Hestia (Orpheus - Black Square)
Rusting Sun: II (Behind the shadows - Black Devastation records)
Inferion: It began with blood (The Desolate)
Phantom Levers: Sea Of Tranquility (Let’s Meet The Control Group)
Antipope: A Carnal Ritual of Self-Asphyxiation (House of Harlot)
Sieghetnar: Die Asche Eines Geistes (Die Asche Eines Geistes – Ashen productions)

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Tonight is the first edition of ‘Retro Kicks’, a show that features old school music from long ago.
In this edition we go way back from the end of the sixties to the middle of the seventies, with Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Velvet Underground, Captain Beefheart, Pink Floyd, Black Widow, Deep Purple, Love, White Noise, The Soft Machine, Faust, Heldon, Thin Lizzy, Brian Eno, Pavlov’s Dog, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Residents, Magma, The Stooges and Henry Cow.

note: this show will not be available to stream on this web

Ignifer: L’éclat de la douleur (Le Jardin des supplices)
Zgard: Autumn buried the ground (Spirit of the Carpathian Sunset - Darker Than Black records)
Blindslaves: Rise To Fall (Against All – Infektion records)
Aspectee: bail a cerder (Jour Cinq – Black Drone)
THE DRIP: Fuck Yuppie Scum (THE DRIP - Torn Flesh records)
Ophyra: Ghosts (Post Mortem)
Animo Aeger: Schabe Und Kolkrabe (Fieber - Ashen productions)
Indu Mezu: Brian May (The Dark Clowd)
Feces On Display: Pepperoni Tits Pizza (Bizarre Devourment… Of A Virgin’s Cunt! - Dis-Organ-Ized records)
The Undergrave Experience: Mater Mortalis Tenebrarum (Macabre – Il Richiamo Delle Ombre - Solitude productions)
Crank sturgeon and Oso El roTo: La mémé whig remix (La Mémé - Los Emes Del Oso)

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