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Picture Credit: Horte   Horte - Maa Antaa Yön Vaientaa Release Date: August 27, 2021 Label: Pelagic Records Format: Vinyl / CD / Digital Length: 36:06 Genre: Experimental / Psychedelic Post Rock Origin: Finland Four years after the release of their selftitled debut , Finland's Horte are back with their new longplayer "Maa Antaa Yön Vaientaa". The Finnish title can be translated to "The Earth lets the Night silence" and thus speaks volumes about the deep and melancholic soundscapes that are contained on the album. The seven tracks also have titles in Finnish language, and a brief look at the songlist reveals that Horte are continuing the narrative of their debut release. The track ' Konttaa, ne konttaa ' from 2017 album "Horte" receives a second part on the new release. "Maa Antaa Yön Vaientaa" is an album to get lost in. And it furthermore is an album in one piece. The Finnish quartet presents deep, dark, and cold soundscapes full of...

Picture Credit: Year Of No Light   Year Of No Light - Consolamentum Release Date: July 02, 2021 Label: Pelagic Records Format: Vinyl / CD / Digital Length: 55:17 Genre: Post Metal / Drone Doom Origin: Bordeaux , France "Consolamentum" is not only the fifth full-length release by Bordeaux' Post Metal giants Year Of No Light. With this album, the band also celebrates their 20th anniversary. And therefore, a special bundle is available in the webshop of German label Pelagic Records . The wooden box contains all five studio albums, several Split EPs, a recording from the Roadburn Festival together with composer Dirk Serries , and several other goodies. You can either get a CD bundle or a vinyl bundle. With "Consolamentum", Year Of No Light prove once more that they belong to the crème de la crème of heavy and atmospheric music. Masterfully, the band merges coldly waving Drone sounds with the vast atmosphere of Post Metal and the massive brachiality of Sludge. The f...

Picture Credit: Oslo Tapes   Oslo Tapes -  Ør Release Date: June 04, 2021 Label: Pelagic Records Format: Digital Length: 42:49 Genre: Krautrock Origin: Italy With a band name reffering to the capital of Norway, and an album title that means "dizzy" or "confusing" in Norwegian, one could assume that Oslo Tapes are a band fro that very Skandinavian country. Instead, the band was founded by Southern Italian artist Marco Campitelli  after he returned from a trip to Oslo. The original idea was to musick the melancholic atmosphere of the Northern metropolis. Since the formation of Oslo Tapes, two full-length releases have been published which are now followed by album number three: "Ør". With support by Mauro Spada  (bass) and Davide Di Virgilio  (drums and percussions), Marco Campitelli  takes us on a colourful sonic journey. Psychedelic, atmospheric and somewhat dreamy, the soundscapes on "Ør" create a shiny calleidoscope of mesmerizing Krautrock. Th...

Picture Credit: Pelagic Records   Psychonaut / Sâver - Emerald Release Date: May 14, 2021 Label: Pelagic Records Format: Vinyl / Digital Length: 35:40 (16:30 + 19:10) Genre: Doom Metal / Post Metal Origin: Mechelen , Belgium / Oslo , Norway Wrapped in luscious green, this Split EP is huge - not only since with 35 minutes of duration, this is EP is longer than many full-length full-length releases. Nevertheless, if you know the featured artists, you have encountered how likely they are to produce musical pieces that last at least ten minutes. And thus here we are, exploring the atmospheric sonic journey lead by Mechelen's Psychonaut and Oslo's Sâver. A-Side: Psychonaut - The Great Realisation Emerald Split EP by PSYCHONAUT The Belgian band provides us with a sixteen-minute opus of minimalism, apocalyptic scenery, and various moods. The Psychedelic Doom narrative consists of five chapters. A nameless protagonist awakens from their self-righteous dream, realizing that humankind ...