Halloween special from MORGVE! "Samhain Rites" is a four-track collaborative EP released for the season of the witch, featuring tracks with Brazilian witch-trap producer KenoKult, French experimentalist [lyn] and German wild card Pepsy. On top of those, we're getting a brand new song "Take It Away", which is a-ma-zing, perfect for dancing in a trance around the graveyards.
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Morgve's EP "Feast" is an ultimate digestif released after their previous album "Symphony For Those In Pain". Both dropped in 2024 and they complement each other perfectly. Like its predecessor, "Feast" is a wide-ranging collection of tracks that span multiple styles, showcasing the band's flexibility and confidence in taking on any genre. Nadia is unstoppable on vocals, equally comfortable rapping or singing, and she owns every beat. Music-wise, I must say I'm most drawn to the big room/techno singles, with the opening "Cut The Throat" being my favourite.
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In celebration of WITCH-HOUSE.com's 15th anniversary, I released a new compilation titled "Beyond The Body", with tracks inspired by body horror movies. This latest release is a testament to the spirit and diversity of the witch house genre. The project features an incredible and eclectic lineup of artists - Ghost Mirror, Writhing, Tenderness of Wolves, Ourobonic Plague, Silence Embrace, Humanfobia, STRFLL, Cosmic Wildling, Voidscan, Zazie Productions, Textbeak, Skøgen, I††, MORGVE, ßęđŧīmĕ Šŧōŗĩėş, and Marth Daul - each contributing uniquely unsettling and atmospheric tracks, spanning a wide range of styles. With witch house at its core, the compilation pulses with elements of dark ambient, ghost drone, industrial, and noise, pushing the boundaries of experimental sound and genre fusion.
Download the compilation here, and stream the whole record down below.
"Symphony For Those In Pain" is Morgve's first record of 2024. Released in September, the album landed in my mailbox not long after it came out, but after my first stream, for some reason, I couldn't get into the right headspace to review it. While listening to it, I can’t shake the feeling that this project, in particular, sounds more like a compilation of singles rather than an album meant to tell a story, with a clear beginning, middle, and end. Instead, we get a collection of some of the duo’s strongest tracks, both in terms of vocal diversity and eclectic production. There’s melancholic witch house, rave-y breakbeats, post-trance bass, deconstructed club and gabber, spacious layered ambient soundscapes, and more! If you approach this record with the mindset that it’s a "best of" compilation, I believe the appreciation for its craft will be greater. "Black Tiger" is just... wow! Please support those two as much as you can!
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It struck me today that I have a backlog of three Morgve albums to blog about. These two are insanely prolific! "Seed of Dissension" came out towards the end of November last year, following "Indømito". While the previous record leaned towards the faster and more melodic end of their discography, "SOD" swings the pendulum to the opposite side of the mood spectrum. Heavy slabs of droning soundscapes are paired with gloomy synths, industrial sound design and hauntingly spellbinding vocals of Nadia, creating a mixture of oozing dark ambience, experimental witch house, and razor-sharp trap beats. On "Seed Of Dissension" Morgve are no longer audio terrorists, but rather heralds of darkness.
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Totally wild six-track single from French producer and singer [lyn] and Argentinian audio terrorists Morgve. On paper, the original version of "Innerside" sounds totally bizarre—hardcore beats and breakbeat percussion mixed with classical singing and witch-punk energy—but it works, especially with Nadia's vocals! There are also remixes from breakcore project Smeargle, a more balanced, low-tempo version by electronic duo Nouvelles Lectures Cosmopolites, an Italian hardtek edit by producer Ent1, as well as an early demo and a collage that blends all of the above.
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Morgve unveiled their new album today (another review coming up), but before I dig into that, let's delve into their preceding LP, "Indømito" which came out in August. And this record is definitely worth promoting more, being a natural culmination of their unquestionable reign as one of the best duos that ever came on the witch house-adjacent scene. While still retaining band's underground soul and sitting closely to the conceptual underground, "Indømito" could be perceived as their most accessible album, with a string of super catchy and melodic compositions. The duo's songwriting potential is just incredible, and production is better than ever, drawing from witch music, industrial, rave scene, electro, drone and bass, mixed into a dark and alluring cocktail. The excellent instrumentals are then amplified by Nadia's vocals, which oscillate between slow-paced rap and singing, giving the tracks an extra kick and character. With every successive album, I find myself repeating that it's Morgve's best, only to be proven wrong as they consistently surpass expectations and go one step further. Excellent album, do not miss this.
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So in four days we will get a brand new album from the kvlt duo MORGVE. In the meantime they premiered an official video to their single from the previous LP "Bestiary". Enjoy.
I still haven't got bored of the amazing "Rise Rise Rise" LP that dropped in July, and in the final weeks of December MORGVE unleashed their follow-up album "Bestiary". And what a record it is! Only five tracks long, but packs a punch like there's no tomorrow. Futuristic witch-rap record, from the gutters of Buenos Aires 2099. Nadia is killing it with the vocals, and Gonzo is on the next level with his productions.
Purchase the album here, stream in full below.
New video for a double single from MORGVE, lifted from their new album "Bestiary" that was released just a week ago. Youtube is being a dick and doesn't let me properly embed it, so head over you the band's channel here to check it out.
Last year's "Halveksiva" took me by storm upon its release in the last days of December, and eventually ended up on my top 20 list for 2021. After teasing the next album for a while, yesterday Morgve finally unleashed "Rise Rise Rise", a 10-track continutation and expansion of the trajectory set on its predecessor. The opener "Bad Cocaine" hits the same sweet spot "Halveksiva" managed to define - it's an underground rave anthem that serves as a natural follow-up to the previous LP, but also a portal to darker territories that lie ahead. While last year album's source material was heavily rooted in post-trap, trance and techno mutations, "Rise Rise Rise" feels more experimental and willing to challenge some of those club music traces by delving deeper into industrial sound design and deconstructed electronica territories (check "Garden Of Zillion Roses" for example). It's a subtle but noticeable shift, which reminds me of IC3PEAK's progression a few years back. That being said, fans of Morgve's more witchy productions shouldn't feel excluded, the last three tracks will satisfy anyone hungry for gloomier and grittier witch house beats. With "Rise Rise Rise" the duo continues to craft their own mini-universe in this post-witch house world, occupying it with sounds that will define the Argentinian (and South American) underground for years to come. Do not miss it and support if you can.
The new LP can be purchased here, and streamed in full below.
MORGVE are Gonza and Nadia, two audio terrorists from Buenos Aires who have been steadily putting out witch-house/rave-punk releases over the last six years. Today is the premiere of their third LP "Halveksiva", without a doubt their most mature and cohesive album to date. Neatly balancing between dark witchy sound and more euphoric big club vibes, MORGVE managed to crystalise their identity while reaching out to new sonic territories for influence. Compared to their "Contra" EP from June this year, there's less distortion and noise, and more melodies, and it works perfectly. Big suprise for the end of 2021, make sure to give this one a spin.
Buy "Halveksiva" here, and stream it below.
You can stream the album after the jump.
"Kosmische Musik" is a new soundtrack from Mater Suspiria Vision, scoring Cosmotropia de Xam's latest movie feature "The House That Eats The Rabbit". Released last month, it takes the listener on a trippy journey through vast and bleak sonic wastelands of ghostly synths, selectively scattered with guest vocals and shrouded with droning serenity. The album sits somewhere between Emeralds' analog kosmik sound and more desolate works of Drug Machine on "Amnesia" (the latter being one of many side-projects of Cosmotropia de Xam). With "Kosmische Musik" MSV crafted a captivating and transcendental listening experience, working equally well both on and off screen, that can be recommended to any lovers of dystopian electronic music.
You can order the album on a limited to 33 copies CD here, or as a deluxe edition package with an art book here.
Alongside the main album, Mater Suspiria Vision has also just dropped a compilation "Acid in the Rabbit Hole", with a great array of edits and remixes of the opening track "Säure im Kaninchenbau". Boasting an amazing and diverse line-up, including Monomorte, Morgve, Voodoo Crystals and Churchterror among many others, the album is a brilliant addition to "Kosmische Musik", interpreting it through rave, techno, post-industrial and old school witchhouse lenses. Make sure you grab the CD here, because it'll be available in physical form only for the next 2 days.