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First of all, and because it cannot be said often enough: нет войны | ні війні | No War How to help the people in Ukraine ______________________________________________________ Cover photo by  Steffen Albrecht;  Cover parts by  Engin Aykurt  and  Vino Li;  Cover composition by  Eric McQueen The Mountain King - Tsunami of Hope Release Date: July 01, 2022 Label: Analog Scum Recordings Format: Cassette/USB-Stick/Digital Duration: 19:46 Genre: LoFi / Ambient Origin: Mainz , Germany The Mountain King from Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate keeps releasing new music on high frequency. Only five months after the release of the last Drone Doom opus and celebration of palindromes " WolloW ", the latest release "Tsunami of Hope" is here. If you are acquainted with Eric McQueen  and his music, you know that The Mountain King's releases can roughly be categorized in two spheres: the Drone, Doom or Metal releases on the one hand, and the more experimental outpu...

Picture Credit: The Mountain King Artwork: Agromira   The Mountain King - C.A.O.S.D. Release Date: May 01, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format: CD / Digital Length: 25:31 Genre: EDM / Nintendocore / Electro Punk Origin: Mainz , Germany And now, something completely different, or: Wouldn't it be nice if the police had cooked asparagus instead of tonfas, tazers, and guns? Labour Day 2021 was the release date of the third The Mountain King release in 2021 alone. After the artist from Rhineland-Palatia has recently provided us with Space Doom , and Black Metal , this eight-track album is the most electronic release by Eric McQueen  since "Super Dead Isle 2" . C. A. O. S. D. by The Mountain King The limited special edition of this CD comes with an (empty) molotov cocktail and a USB drive by the way. You might want to have one of those 10 pieces. "C.A.O.S.D." is an instrumental albu except for the voice samples of the skits. The music is defined by minimalist but atmosp...

Picture Credit: The Mountain King Artwork: Emil Underbjerg The Mountain King - The Smell of Stars and Vomit Release Date: February 28, 2021 Label: Cursed Monk Records Format: CD / Cassette / USB / Digital Length: 95:11 Genre: Space Doom Origin: Mainz , Germany In my first shared flat I had a room mate who had a relative working for the ESA . Hence, he had a shirt saying "Space is cool", probably the best garment I have ever seen ( Tobi , if you read this, hey mate, hope you're fine!). And yes, space is cool! Buy why is it so cool? Well, space is fascinating. But in our times, it is predominantly an opportunity for a getaway, regarding how much we have screwed up our own planet. And this is one of the main aspects, the new album by Mainz' The Mountain King is about - leaving Earth and conquering new frontiers. "The Smell of Stars and Vomit" is a 95-minute one-track release. Several plots about a fantastic odyssey away from our home planet merge into each othe...

Picture Credit: Black Autumn / The Mountain King Artwork: Steffen Albrecht Black Autumn / The Mountain King - Rauhnacht MMXX Release Date: February 14, 2021 Label: Cursed Monk Records Format: CD / Digital Length: 24:53 Genre: Doom Metal / Post Metal This year, we can enjoy a very special Valentine's Day gift. It is the "Rauhnacht MMXX" Split EP by Dortmund's Black Autumn and Mainz' The Mountain King - two one-person armies of atmospheric, dark and intense music. "Rauhnacht" is a German word that could be translated to "harsh night", but actually the "Rauhnacht" (or "Rauhnächte" in plural) describes the twelve nights from December 25 to January 6. Those stormy and cold nights allegedly forecast the weather of the following year, as the legend says. Black Autumn has released four "Rauhnacht" EPs since 2014, which you can listen to on Bandcamp (you can find the link below). This year's release is the first "...

Photo Credit: Steffen Albrecht  / The Mountain King The Mountain King - Wicked Zen Release: June 06, 2020 Label: selfrelease -- (Special Edition will appear on Cursed Monk Records soon) -- Format: Tape/CD/Digital Length: 70:05 Genre: Drone Doom / Psychedelic Doom Origin: Mainz , Germany First things first. I have also written a review on this album in German . It was published via Betreutes Proggen - a site that frequently features articles by me. Big shoutouts to Betreutes Proggen ! All you Prog Rock / Prog Metal / Post Rock / Avantgarde etc fans, I recommend you to follow this awesome online mag! Nevertheless, this is not a translation of the German review but an autonomous text. Now, The Mountain King appears on my site for the second time. Half a year ago I wrote a review on their album " Mind Deny Undo ". Since that release five years have passed and TMK mastermind Eric McQueen  has published a ton of amazing experimental and unorthodox musi...