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God Of Frogs is a 2026 anthology with a rather distinctive/ original focus. The stories featured are told over a near eighty-year period, with the interlocking theme of frog & human hybrids. It’s certainly a curious and original venture- blending elements of horror, sci-fi, and dark comedy. Here from Miracle Media/MVD is a bare-bones release of the film.
Released in the early 70s, Pink Narcissus is both an important and daring art film, as well as an impactful piece of homoeroticism. It charts the daydreams/ fantasy of a male prostitute, the seventy-one-minute film utilising an otherworldly colour palette, a hazy, hallucinogenic, though at times rewarding, unfolding, and a general air of lush & sensual unpredictability. Here, rather surprisingly, from the BFI is a Blu-ray release of the film. It features a new 4k scan, a new introduction, a few archive extras, and for this first edition Illustrated booklet- with new & old essays, etc.
Formed in 2021 by Ian Lynch (Lankum), One Leg One Eye has been the side project that allows him to experiment and explore different musical paths. Rooted in the sound of second-wave black metal, And Take The Black Worm With Me is a massive departure from what Lynch has previously recorded with Lankum. Merging found sounds and field recordings with drones and black metal vocals, And Take the Black Worm With Me is a unique-sounding record. The album features Ian on hurdy gurdy, uillean pipes, synth, vocals shruti box, concertina, guitar, found sounds and tapes, alongside Laurie Sue Shanaman on vocals and Ruth Clinton on church organ
Scottish composer and sound artist J. Quimby has created a new project, Rhins, to reassess the musical focus and emotion of his earlier years and bands, and give them new life and direction through analog synthesis, destruction, reconstruction, and other varied means of production. His second release, The Invisible, has seven tracks based in ambient, venturing out into harsher and more experimental areas through layering and destruction. The resulting album is an engaging ebb and flow of emotion and sound, with Rhins able to better communicate with the world through music than with words.
Across..In Grief And Detail features three pieces by American composer Michael Hersch. His work here is a tense, searing, and often jarring take on modern classical composition, with brief flurries of grace & grander. Two of the works feature uneasy to intense soprano, but all three highlight a composer who likes to create jarring and unpredictable work.
Timothy McCormack is an American modern classical composer who creates very textural, often noisy/ non-harmonic work. The Hand Is A Ear is a perfect title for this two-track collection, as McCormack's compositions often focus on the physical relationship between the performer and their instruments, with often very lengthy dwells of repetitive/ droning tones.
Harbinger (2026) is a British occult horror directed by James Crow, with a screenplay by Simon Cluett, produced by Shogun Films and Miracle Media.
Beasts Unleashed is a Blu-ray set from Eureka bringing together two American sci-fi films from the 50's, which sit in the alien invasion and creature feature sub-genres. There’s The Beast with a Million Eyes-which focuses on an isolated farm where a craft crash-lands and starts altering first the behaviour of the animals, then the humans. The second film is The Beast of Hollow Mountain, which sold itself as a western dino-focused creature feature – but is in reality much more of just a traditional western, with dino action tacked on.
Originally released in the year 1980, as a cassette on Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records, White Souls In Black Suits was the first sonic fruit from Sheffield’s Clock DVA. The band, who later became known/ respected for their work in the genres of post-punk and EBM, offered up their first release as a jam-focused blend of old school industrial, avant-jazz, and experimental jam rock. Here from Mute, as either a double vinyl or CD, is the first release of the album in thirty-five years, with the remastered original fifty-minute/ nine track album being joined by four bonus tracks.
Now here we have a release with a perfectly fitting title… as this just over fourteen-minute ‘wall’ literally sounds like a mass of bone-white squirminess, just about to burst, ready to fill your nostrils with sour decay and your vision with a mass of white, seething wriggle.
Lynchian Injury is an hour-long slab of staring-into-the-void wall noise from this relatively new Oregon-based project. The single track is a simple yet effective blend of rolling drone-heavy bleakness, with a thin crackling static edge.
A Circle Of Skin is the third album from The Fields Of Hay, which is the solo project of Stuart Carter (Splintered, Theme, Sarcasm). What we have here is a three-track instrumental affair- mixing guitars, electronics, found sound, etc. The feel throughout is decidedly glumly moody- blending building dark folk/ drone rock, atmospheric noise elements, psycho ambience, and uneasy electronica.
Siôn Orgon is a Cardiff-based sound designer, experimental composer and multimedia artist with a career spanning over two decades. He is a long-time collaborator of Thighpaulsandra (Coil and Julian Cope) and a full-time member of the band, Rocketgoldstar. He has also collaborated with Damo Suzuki (Can), The Waterboys, Peter Christopherson and a host of other artists along the way.
3 For HNW! Is a three-way noise split, bringing together two US projects and one rather mysterious project. The tracks featured run between five minutes and just over half an hour.
Released in the early 1970’s, Forest Of Beastly Desire (aka Juyoku No Mori) was the second of six roman porno films filmed in Sweden by Japanese studio Nikkatsu. The film blends moodily shot softcore with drama and tragedy- it is relatively well acted (for this type of thing), and the whole thing is well shot, with some great use of lighting & colour. The plot revolves around the loves and losses of blond haired/ twenty something Mamy- played by centrefold model Lisbeth Lindeborg. Its soundtrack features music from key krautrock band Amon Düül II
Forty years after its initial release, industrial legend Z'EV's Schönste Muziek is finally given a state-of-the-art remaster. Metallic, booming percussion fills the air, generating the thick atmosphere for the five album tracks, as well as the newly included "Titan Night," which has been unavailable since 1984! Loaded with banging steel and metal that is the lifeblood of heavy industrial percussion, Schönste Muziek feels like more of a treatise than an album, but I cannot remove my forty-year-thick lens. With that, it is an interesting work, but it tends to be a bit monotonous
Shuji Terayama’s The Boxer treads some familiar lines as a tale of sporting endurance and personal redemption, but the director’s experimental impulse and counterculture tendencies couldn’t resist adding some fascinatingly experimental moments to what appears to be, on the face of it, one of his more conventional films.
71226 is a new release from this bleak and atmospheric wall noise project. This digital self-released affair finds this Wisconsin venture serving up a single/ dead on forty five minute wall that has a decidedly weather-bound/ battering ‘n’ baying feel.
Greeted by birds and warmly filtered loops of voice, the album immediately establishes a lush, euphoric soundscape. As the opening titular piece "Soñador" progresses, deep sub-bass sines swell in volume, indicating this is likely an album of electronic dub or downtempo with its implied chord progression.
Recorded in late 1977, this seven-track live album found space rockers Hawkwind trying out a new name, Dave Brock’s Sonic Assassins, a new line-up, and a more spacy, bounding, and at points punked take on their sound. Here from Atomhenge, one of Cherry Red Sub labels, is either a CD or vinyl reissue of this key/ important release in the band's history.
From the late 1970’s The Music Machine is an entertaining and rather charming slice of British disco-exploitation. It’s set around a north London disco competition, and focuses on Gerry, a wide-eyed, strawberry-blond twenties-something, who wants to break out of unemployment drudgery. The film features a likeable cast, lots of pulsing lights, sparking suits, disco ball spinning tunes, and groovy dance moves, plus some very British touches. Here from Severin is a recent Blu-ray release of the film, featuring a sparkling new 4k scan and a good selection of all-new extras.
Now here’s one of the more creative/orginal takes on the sharkploitation genre. A half-man/ half-shark serial killer, set in a genre blend of unsettling slasher & criminal-on-the-run thriller with touches of demented creature feature, action, and, of course, Jaws send-up. Here from SRS Cinema is a new Blu-ray of this 2026 film, taking in a director's commentary & trailer.
If you didn’t know any better, you might guess that Jana Irmert’s latest release is meant to accompany something — an installation, a perambulatory exploration of some subterranean environment, or, more prosaically, a film.
Percussion ensemble HIIIT returns with the third instalment in their collaborative electronic series, SIIIX. As the name would imply, HIIIT worked with six other artists to come up with the tracks for this latest volume, each sharing/manipulating material in a two-way exchange, unlike many compilations of this sort. In this way, both artists have a say at how the other's is shaped and moulded, and the interplay/interweaving is stronger and more intense. This leads to tracks that have more rigid intent and feel more like compositions instead of improvisations. But, at the heart of it all is the percussion, and fans of putting on headphones and zoning out to an ambulatory beat should take note, as all six pieces move fluidly and effortlessly.