Grausamkeit – Stardust (1999)

October 16, 2024

Stardust contains everything that you could want from a Grausamkeit or BSOD-adjacent project of any kind (well, except maybe the noisecore stuff maybe). Shaky yet endearing “dungeon synth” (it always feels weird referring to stuff that predates this genre name as such) gives way to barely audible black metal lost in a thousand layers of distortion and tape hiss. Audio fidelity you shall not find here, but atmosphere is instead brought to you by the bucketfull.