Three Radikal Rekerds #25 [ Mave Goren's/Entropy Deity's Music Special ]

Today I'm doing something slightly different from what I'd normally do. It pleases me greatly to present you with three records from a creative force-in-human-form that aficionados of anti-fascist black metal and just avid followers of unusual underground music in general. I speak of a person named Mave Goren (AKA "Entropy Deity") who is a veritable font of chimerical musical experimentation. 

My written showboating aside, I genuinely have a vast amount of respect for Mave and her absolute commitment crafting wholly individualistic and often refreshingly eccentric music in fields too often marred by brinkmanship and "sound-a-likes", the kind of thing that she and she alone could have released unto my unworthy and ignoble ears. 

Juggling various pseudonyms such as Poppet (a dungeon synth/dub crossover concept), Sybil Disobedience (not even sure how to describe this, "electronic" will have to suffice ;p) and Zebulon (a synth-drenched noisy doom metal project) there are recurring hints of progressive politics and scholarly religious themes across all her work.  

So you could imagine how chuffed-to-bits I was to find out she signed up for this site :D Consider this update to TRR an extension of my embarrassing fanboying. If nothing else, please do send Mave a friend request and make her feel welcome. Without further-ado, here's three of my favourite records wrought by her hands.  

The bandcamp page sums this up perfectly with the slogan "Trans rights and trance rites." An RABM (that's "red and anarchist black metal") project with an emphasis on what I believe to be pre-Christian female spirituality. If I seemed to be dithering on the genre segment of this review, it's because an almost silly amount of diversity is cranked into the four tracks of this demo, as it's veers from anachro-medievalist electronica, raw up-tempo strains of metal to more avant-garde digitally manipulated strains, right through to a closing old school trance music anthem!  

Undeniably lo-fi , yet boasting a jagged crystalline sound, this record was my introduction to Mave's work. At first taking it to be a highly unusual "unblack metal" release ("unblack" often a substitute tag for Christian black metal projects) subsequent listens and an increasing awareness of projects-adjacent to Gelassenheit cemented this as a favourite in my mind.

This is rather different from prior work I've listened to, but might become one of my favourites in due time. Admitting that making this record saw Mave "going outside [her] comfort zone", it's a weird and hoary concoction of outsider freak folk with whispered and snarled vocals, and the utilization of rather hefty sounding drum machine on a couple of tracks. Anyone familiar with the likes of Wolfmangler and Dead Raven Choir will most likely gel well with this too. Audio folk horror at it's finest!