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Srogi Mroczek

Srogi Mroczek
Album art featuring a bear carrying a human leg in its mouth

Review

Hunters beware.

Temporada de Homínidos EP | artist: Animals Revenge — Tight songwriting, driving d-beat, and lots of shouting made this an enormously exciting release. It is the soundtrack to getting chased by a bear. Crunchy guitars, over-driven bass, killer trash drums... and did I mention lots of shouting? Maybe there is a more

By Srogi Mroczek 23 May 2025
The TeeCollage of parts of churches, fish, and other shapes including either a hornets nest or innards of a beehive and perhaps bits of brain or nervous system forming a skull-like shape

Review

The territory crumbles.

The Teeth of Time | artist: Drouth — There is a wrenching tremolo pull that uproots an electric guitar chord at about the 5:10 mark of the track that opens this five song set by Drouth which sort of sums up the project. It is akin to a jaw being suddenly

By Srogi Mroczek 22 May 2025
Wings Beneath Krynn's Moonlight album cover — a dragon hovers before a castle on a hill

Review

Hi, High Sorcery.

Wings Beneath Krynn's Moonlight | artist: Mythráen — I imagine there will be plenty of listeners who speak to the fantastical lyricism and moody rhythms of Mythráen's latest release. While, on the surface, the compositions fall into the general occupations of Dark Dungeon and Fantasy Synth music writ

By Srogi Mroczek 21 May 2025
Album cover for Burden by Obsidian Urn

Review

No burden to listen to this one.

Burden | artist: Obsidian Urn — The big sludgey riffs hang around like overtaxed storm clouds casting slowly shifting shadows on whatever is below. The drums swing back and forth. There is space — as in a spatial physical place — imbued in these recordings. One feels as if in the midst of it

By Srogi Mroczek 20 May 2025
Las cuerdas rebosan magia | by maximucho2 | artwork of a Stratocaster wearing a wizard's hat

Review

Bury the lede with maximucho2.

Las cuerdas rebosan magia | artist: maximucho2 — You know the sound. The moderately fast, harmonically sloppy, repetitive (until a weird change happens — like sudden triumphant cartoon horns) sound. Distorted vocals through a practice amp. The trebly hot mess Grime Stone sound. Started out listening to this one and immediately found myself

By Srogi Mroczek 20 May 2025
secret histories | by Henry Winter | artwork features a cupid with bow and arrow

Review

Let's get right to it. Beauty is terror.

secret histories | artist: Henry Winter – I was hooked by the time the first song abruptly cut out. Sometimes what's not there (or what has ceased to be there) is exactly what is there. Mave Goren lives under the same moon as me. Under the moon where some people

By Srogi Mroczek 19 May 2025
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