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Finnish masters of psychedelic drone and doom Dark Buddha Rising are returning to the Svart Records label to release their next album!

2 highly interesting Finnish bands merged into a new entity that will bring a captivating release out in this world in 2019!

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Album Reviews

‘Ashes Coalesce’ is full of these mysterious moments that make the sophomore strange yet beautiful.

In 2018 The hellish intronauts of Oranssi Pazuzu and Dark Buddha Rising came together for a one off event, commissioned for the Roadburn Festival, ingeniously monikered The Waste of Space Orchestra. Syntheosis is the studio interpretation of that psychotropic interdimensional journey.

Convocation exemplifies the ambient parts of Desolate Shrine more profoundly.

Gig Reports

We crossed the Great Plains of the Old West in search of enlightenment, but instead ended up in orbit around Jupiter with a bunch of freaky Fins. No Peyote, just musical highs at Het Bos.

Festival Reports

The best of the doom, sludge, stoner and even industrial scene showed up for one weekend in Helsinki at a wonderful small underground festival. Check out our report!

Photo Reports

When the line-up of the 2018 edition of Blow-Up festival got released bit by bit, we decided that we couldn’t let this event pass us by. With some of the biggest names in the sludge and doom scene and a few really special and rather rare sights on a stage over here, it’s something we’ve […]

Previews

An underground festival filled with doom, sludge, stoner and the likes in a musically hazy and dark weekend…