2024 struck me as a weird year and the music that saw the light of day mostly reflected that. Extreme metal seemed to dip into the cosmic horror aspect quite a bit while inroads were made in post-industrial, martial industrial, and pagan style rock/folk. Although my list here features several more straightforward goth/techno and post-punk/death rock releases I think many of them are quite outside more traditional genres and that’s something that I feel reflects a year that didn’t really know what it wanted to be.
So here it is: my …
Held annually on deepest Olympian soil, hosting endeavors whose roots reach back through the lineage of ritual performative arts to those ancestors who strove by drum and rattle to something starborne, Cascadian Yule gathers acts of sacral intent from along the west coast spanning the genres of folk, black metal, EDM, soundscape, dance, mythtelling, theater, and beyond—amidst feasting and the jovial reunions of distant tribes of artists, all in honor of the sun who gives all.
A new official video for the title track Victory & Defeat!
The valiant people of the Great White North have deemed Victory & Defeat worthy of the cassette format
Join us for a night of dark electronic music, martial industrial, ritual ambient, and rhythmic industrial.
November 9th, 2024
8PM – @ The Mortuary – Olympia, WA
Donations $5-$15
Xiphoid Dementia
Sataray
Rising Plague Incinerator
Behalf