Today, Iron Bonehead Productions sets May 15th as the international release date for the highly anticipated eighth album of Germany’s Horn, Mohngang, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Today, Iron Bonehead Productions sets April 24th as the international release date for White Nights’ striking debut EP, Into the Lap of the Ancient Mother, on CD, 12″ vinyl, and cassette tape formats.
White Nights are as sonically bewildering as their moniker. Strange
and unorthodox but unapologetically so, this mysterious entity create
warped, literally sun-damaged dirges of abstract black metal deviated
further by undertones of shimmering deathrock. Lysergic and languorous,
there’s nevertheless a haunting undercurrent of stifled violence across
Into the Lap of the Ancient Mother, the band’s first public recording.
Whether this sort of ambling strangeness was created spur of the moment
or was simmering in the mind of its creator(s) for years is anyone’s
guess, but on evidence of these 17 minutes of fried-frequency despair,
White Nights are fucking potent and hallucinatory.
Just trip out on the cover artwork – the CD and vinyl feature different
artwork, each equally fucked – and partake of these nuclear-powered
mushrooms…oblivion awaits as you head Into the Lap of the Ancient
Mother with White Nights as your guide.