These bands draw on occult themes and horror film motifs to make distinctly unsettling rock.
The Lady of Haschisch I've been a fan of Santiago Caruso's work for more than a decade now. I came across his work for the first time when I was 22 years old and, to witness such a talent on a guy my age (we were both born in 1982) was devastating. Completely heartbreaking. I'm 35 now, and I make a
From animist drone collectives to cowled choirs, the artists in this list take dark journeys to the spirit realm.
Nicola Samorì works in a world of dark Baroque influenced drama. His paintings are gouged, distorted, melted, skinned and destroyed before reaching their final state. This act of destruction is so deliberate and contrasting to the works of painterly skill affected - it can almost be seen as violent.
Expect life to test you, and give you lessons to learn from. By practicing mindfulness and awareness you can anticipate what’s to come. Universal tests and lessons are designed to strengthen your…
Since their 2008 debut Ritual IX, the ensemble known as Dark Buddha Rising has mastered it's craft album by album, show by show. Ominous riffing, colossal doom, swirling psychedelia, repetition, repetition, repetition. The recipe is carved in stone, yet it leads to different endings-or bottomless shafts. Tension, tension, tension, lunacy. Inversum, their fifth studio full-length, is the opening of the Third Cycle of Dark Buddha Rising. It acts as an initiation for the new members V. Vatanen (guitar, vocals) and J. Saarivuori (keyboards), and is the first release through Neurot Recordings. Most of all, Inversum is the first album recorded, produced and mixed by the band themselves in the depths of the Wastement, the asylum of eternal feedback. The process that led to the manifestation of the Inversum, heavily guided by both intuition and determination, takes the band's musick further down it's chosen path. Inversum is a monument built upon the foundation of their past work and is sculpted with the initial principles of Dark Buddha Rising to celebrate the Black Arts of Psychedelia. Hold tight. The winds are gathering.
