Mount Eerie (us)
Storytelling songs can't get any more fragile than the intimate gems by Mount Eerie, or: Phil Elverum. Call them the ultimate Duyster music, if you will. Yet: the spirit of black metal is never far removed. It's not without reason that he cites black metal legend Burzum as a relevant influence.

Mount Eerie released no less than two albums last year: ‘Clear Moon’ and the jet black ‘Ocean Roar’. Both only to be ordered via his site P. W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd. What's more, for folks with little time, there's the 7” ‘Clear Moon/Ocean Roar’ , on which all the songs from the respective albums are played at the same time(!). Welcome to the wonderful world of Mount Eerie, in which the spirit of David Lynch is supplied as freebie.

The Haxan Cloak (uk)
Ultra black. That's often how the project of Bobby Krlic – or: The Haxan Cloak – is described. His debut of the same name was already released in ’09 via Aurora Borealis, but its re-issue in ’12 really hit the spot and the world woke up. No coincidence that his second album - ‘Excavation’ - is soon to be released via the ultra-hip Tri▼Angle label. What's more: Tri▼Angle once came into being to smooth the way for micro genre witch house, and now just so happens to welcome ‘Haxan’ (Swedish for ... ‘witch’). Krlic, cites as further influences: Sunn O))) and Earth. Hence: Ultra black.