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Album Review: The Mountain King - Tsunami of Hope (2022)

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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...

Album Review: Guest of Rapture - EGoR6: Scream (2021)

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Picture Credit: Guest of Rapture   Guest of Rapture - EGoR6: Scream Release Date: August 03, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 51:52 Genre: Dubstep / Horror / Metalcore Origin:  Los Angeles ,  CA ,  USA Measured by how rarely the genres EDM and Dubstep are featured on MangoWave, you can assume that only certain pearls and special works manage to convince me. One of those exceptional pieces is "Scream", the sixth part of Guest of Rapture's "EGoR" series. The artist from LA provides us with genre-merging innovative energy, a pitch-black horror story, and sonic narrative techniques that are absolutely unique. Guest of Rapture · Terrified (sOuNdS) "Scream" is a fifty-minute journey through the darkest and most horrifying chasms of our reality. Blood, gore, murder, violence, damnation, and fear spat out straight from infernal depths are bound in sound and noise. Mastermind Tom Berry  uses samples from horror movies, and creates a violent so...

News: Salt House Lavish - Alley Cat (2021)

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Picture Credit: Salt House Lavish   Salt House Lavish - Alley Cat Release Date: April 23, 2021 Length: 03:33 Genre: Alternative Pop / EDM Origin: Stockton-on-Tees , England Multi-instrumentalist and producer Salt House Lavish has released one album and three EPs within the last two years. Before COVID and the lockdowns, the artist from Durham County has also toured and played with plenty of other musicians and producers. Currently, Salt House Lavish is working on their second full-length album which shall be out later in 2021. As a pretaste, the single "Alley Cat" gives us a first impression on what to expect from "Fraternise-Collaborate". Salt House Lavish works with samples and thereby creates thrilling electronic music. In the case of "Alley Cat", a bass-driven mix of EDM, Alternative Pop, some breakbeats, and a certain Alternative Rock atmosphere makes the audience's body move. It is a colourful mix that creates flickering lights and a psychedelic...