Shabda was formed in 2012 in northern Italy by Anna Airoldi, Marco Castagnetto and Riccardo Fassone, who had previously worked together in Thee Maldoror Kollective. With the inception of Shabda, the trio has started crafting meditative, repetitive sounds, with the aim to fuse Indian music, doom metal and minimalist[…]
U.S. sludge monsters HOLLOW LEG re-release their album “Instinct” under the flag of ARGONAUTA Records. The band, a duo now quartet, is an enormously toned groove engine hailing from the highways between Deland and Jacksonville, Florida. Their first full length, Instinct, as a duo of guitar and drums from late 2010[…]
My Grande Finale started as a diy solo project by Markus Grönfors, soon after doing some touring with a great instrumental act Kokomo. The original vision was to create simple, atmospheric songs which could be played live with just one guitar and a looper, by adding some new layers[…]
Beneath the Storm came to life in the cold and long winter of 2012. It awoke on ruins of several underground death metal and sludge bands. The dark and eerie ideas were building up in the founder’s mind for several years and it was the right time for them[…]
A raw and caustically honed brute of a consuming and oppressive encounter, their previously sold out first album Instinct returns to fill in the blanks of where the acclaimed Florida band began for those missing out the first time. ringmasterreview
Thanks to Argonauta Records for making this more widely available because these guys deserve to accolades. Simply heavy, simply grooving, simply sludge. metal-observer.com
Markus has composed a work full of discoveries connected to the immense spaces of Finland. iyezine.com
Temples Of Doom is definitely the creepiest album I have heard this year. It’s full of top-notch scary moments which is quite rare for a Doom/Sludge Metal album. thesludgelord
MY GRANDE FINALE – Ocean Heart Digisleeve CD ltd 300 copies cat. #: REX05 Release date: 11th November 2013
BENEATH THE STORM – Temples of Doom Digisleeve CD ltd 300 copies cat. #: REX04 Release date: 11th November 2013