Messa play evoking doom metal with a dark jazz twist. Deliciously haunting female vocals, rhodes piano and 70’s fuzz guitars combine to conjure a sound that is all of their own. With influences as diverse as Windhand, Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore, The Devil’s Blood, Jex Thoth, Angelo Badalamenti, Bellwitch, Urfaust, John Coltrane and Aluk Todolo, the band has moved from the droning occult doom of their first LP ‘Belfry’ to a new, darker and more atmospheric approach clearly showcased in their new record ‘Feast for Water’, a concept album centered on the introspective, symbolic and ritual features of the liquid element.
https://messa.bandcamp.com/album/feast-for-water
Tracklist:
A1. Naunet
A2. Snakeskin Drape
A3. Leah
A4. The Seer
B1. She Knows
B2. Tulsi
B3. White Stains
B4. Da Tariki Tariqat

Messa play obscure and evoking doom with deliciously haunting female vocals, influenced by Pentagram, Bellwitch, Windhand, Jex Thoth, Sabbath Assembly, Bathory. Their debut album titled „Belfry“ mix dark ambient drones with vintage heavy occult doom and mesmerizing female vocals that will drive you through a scarlet velvet trip.
https://messa.bandcamp.com/album/belfry
Tracklist:
A1. Alba
A2. Babalon
A3. Fårö
A4. The Hour Of The Wolf
B1. Blood
B2. Tomba
B3. New Horns
C1. Bell Tower
C2. Outermost
C3. Confess

Space is the place. After their vinyl debut Modul 12 (2019), -270°C is Kombynat Robotrons second release through Tonzonen Records. The album contains four mostly improvised tracks, each named after a space-telescope. Compton, Chandra, Spitzer and Hubble are four different
perspectives on space, four deep looks into the universe.
While the band’s live performances are always a unique experience of longform-jams that slowly evolve, Kombynat Robotron take a different approach on this record. The music is still improvised, yet there’s clearly a different vibe in these tracks than in the band’s earlier records.
The clean artwork, which was again made by Anton Ohlow, who also created the artwork for Modul 12, shows the direction towards which the Kombynat is heading. The clarity and transparency in the artwork can also be found in the sound of this record.
The album was recorded at Dickfehler Studio in east frisia by Hanno Janßen, who also recorded the band’s last LP Dickfehler Studio Treffen I (Dronerock Records, 2020). The well-balanced sound makes it
easy to discover something new with each spin of the record, almost like looking up to the stars through a telescope.
https://kombynatrobotron.bandcamp.com/album/270-c
Tracklist:
A1. Compton
A2. Chandra
A3. Spitzer
B. Hubble

West Mata is the 6th studio record by Kiel/Germany based
Psych/Krautrockband Kombynat Robotron. The release of
this album is the result of a cooperation between
Clostridium Records (Germany), Cardinal Fuzz Records
(UK) and Little Cloud Records (USA)

West Mata was recorded in May 2023 at ZFML by Kio Krabbenhöft.
Mix and Master: Felix Margraf
Artwork: Anton Ohlow
https://kombynatrobotron.bandcamp.com/album/west-mata
Tracklist:
A. Jason II
B1. Vasa
B2. Trieste

With driving rhythms, repetitive riffs and spherical soundscapes, Kombynat Robotron create a hypnotic sound that blurs the boundaries between krautrock, psychedelic and noise rock. The Kiel-based trio has been an integral part of the European psychedelic rock scene since its formation in 2018 and stands for raw energy, musical freedom and rampant improvisation. With six studio albums acclaimed by fans and critics, as well as various tape and split releases and shows with bands such as Elder, Verstärker and Kungens Män, Kombynat Robotron has made a name for itself as an uncompromising (live) band that carries the spirit of Krautrock into the present day.

On ‘AANK’, their seventh studio album in as many years and first on Fuzz Club, the trio work with vocals and song structures for the first time, moving away from their musical beginnings as an instrumental jam band. Kraut and psychedelic rock can still be found deeply rooted on ‘AANK’, but more focused and delivered with much more heaviness than in the past. The flowing psychedelic soundscapes of the band’s previous records give way to the asphalt of the Autobahn. Between opening track ‘Staub’ and closer ‘Finsternis’, the Kombynat races, noises and rages across a total of eight tracks.

https://kombynatrobotron.bandcamp.com/album/aank

Tracklist:

A1. Staub

A2. Morast

A3. Schnee

A4. AANK

B1. Ikarus

B2. Unbehagen

B3. Sauerstoff

B4. Finsternis

The natural beauty of a land forever blasphemed by beasts and bastards alike, ignited through Mythic Western Black Metal; destined to scalp and crucify the legacy of America.
https://iconoclasmconquest.bandcamp.com/album/dark-watcher-frontier
Tracklist:
A1. Scalp Hunter.
A2. Garroters.
A3. Outriders.
A4. Buffalo.
B1. Farewell To The Old West.
B2. Orb.
B3. A Devil On Yonder Ridge

Dark Watcher return with their debut full length of Western/Americana Black Metal entitled “The Law of Bone and Sinew”, an ouroboric epic laid across the nightmarish canvas of the American Western Frontier.

The natural beauty of a land forever blasphemed by beasts and bastards alike, ignited through eight new tracks of Mythic Western Black Metal destined to scalp and crucify the legacy of America.
https://iconoclasmconquest.bandcamp.com/album/dark-watcher-the-law-of-bone-and-sinew
Tracklist:
A1. . Trial Of Davis Kid
A2. . War Is God
A3. . The Dakota War of 1862
A4. . Damned By Proxy
B1. . The Lawman
B2. . Filth of Man
B3. . Ritual Of Self Slaughter
B4. . The Spirit Of Black Hand Brandon

God Was Never on Your Side: original song by Motörhead, composition and performance by Murderbait, additional guitar and background vocals by Matt Pike (Sleep/High on Fire)

Recorded at Toadhouse with Adam Pike
Mastered by Adam Gonsalves at Telegraph Mastering
https://iconoclasmconquest.bandcamp.com/album/carrion-empire-to-feel-anything-at-all
Tracklist:
A1. Carrion Empire – Go
A2. Carrion Empire – Now is as Good as It Gets
B1. Murderbait – God Was Never On Your Side
B2. Carrion Empire – Silent

It is the creation of Black Infestation, who is also responsible for the Japanese War Metal project Hanzaisha.

Unlike Hanzaisha’s unhinged BestialBlackDeathWarCrust Assault, with Sabulturath Black Infestation takes a completely different road to darkness taking influences from European, Russian and US Black Metal from the 1990’s/early 2000’s as Darkthrone, Burzum, Ildjarn Mütiilation, Judas Iscariot, Xasthur, Leviathan, Old Wainds, Paysage d’Hiver & Lurker of Chalice resulting in Black Metal that is thoroughly lofi and monotonous whilst melancholic and athmospheric with eerie melodies that linger through each of the songs, none of them falling below the 10-minute mark.
https://iconoclasmconquest.bandcamp.com/album/sabulturath-demo-mmxxv-2
Tracklist:
A1. Sweet Witches Await
A2. Everlasting Melancholy
B1. Gates Of Mary’s Grief
B2. Mourning The Fallen Mother

After the success of Unholy Emperor as the debut for a true Japanese war metal band, Hanzaisha successfully proved that the style of war metal can be mixed with specific punk influences to create a unique, catchy, thrashy, but still punishing listen. After Hanzaisha’s only show opening for Deiphago, the band released Judas Hell, a demo which featured much of the same style as Unholy Emperor, despite differences in songwriting between the two releases.

It didn’t take long for Hanzaisha to rise up from the depths of the Biwako Street rituals mere months later, to finally give us their new full-length “Antichrist Supremacy Violations”. Here, the band refined the War-Crust style they created on Unholy Emperor, using a combination of songwriting variety, new stylistic influences, and a production that although cleaner, keeps a lot of the bass-heavy filth associated with war metal.

The band has gotten more varied in executing their crust-influenced approach to war metal, adding thrash metal elements from the war metal progenitors Sarcófago and Sodom, and arguably including a few more elements of death metal and D-Beat, as well as in certain songs, using manic tempo changes for noisy effect. One song in particular, “The Goats Of Hell”, also shows the new influences Hanzaisha picked up from the old days of death metal (in particular Incantation and Napalm Death), as the overall vibe of the track is heavier, denser, and slower-paced compared to the other songs.

The production is also worth noting; whereas Unholy Emperor used a production style that was bass-heavy in a similar way to bands like Archgoat and Blasphemy, the album goes for a more manic and violent-sounding storm of sonic chaos. Although the individual elements in the songs like guitar, drums, and vocals are heard much more clearly, the piercing power is not abandoned, resulting in a violent, and arguably more intense sound for the band’s standards.

Antichrist Supremacy Violations is not only just a simple mixture of war metal and crust punk from an East Asian scene; it is a celebration of the unique chaotic approaches of both genres in general. Hanzaisha once again decided to violently swing their nuclear weapons in a fashion that would help set in motion the roots of war metal for the modern Japanese extreme metal scene. As the submissive hobos of Jesus destroy the West, the east is saved by the presence of Satan’s might and power, protecting them from any kind of religious attack. Are you for the Antichrist supremacy of Japan to violate the Western frauds?
https://iconoclasmconquest.bandcamp.com/album/hanzaisha-antichrist-supremacy-violations
Tracklist:
A1. Intro – The Inevitable Sunrise Of Asia
A2. Satanic Commands
A3. War Alastor
A4. Invasion Of The Kingdom
A5. Terminal Conflict
A6. Heavens Evaporate
A7. Unholy Antichrist
B1. Interlude – Glorified Christianity
B2. Overlord Of Darkness
B3. Ritual Of Immortality
B4. Bloodlust
B5. The Goats Of Hell
B6. Destruction Of Heathens