Konjuro’s Keep is the final post in my little Malfortune Discs tetrad. Like the previously reviewed Frogzard, Konjuro’s Keep is another project by Andrew Oliver of Chaucerian Myth fame. Also similar is the style, with a very video-game-soundtrack feel, which is only amplified by the 8-bit-ish blocky image of a knight on the cover. The […]
Month: January 2024
Frogzard – “Frogzard” (2022)
I’m back with another one from the Malfortune Discs label. Frogzard is a one-off project by artist Andrew Oliver, who is much better known for his excellent and highly regarded work as Chaucerian Myth. The four-song EP is his personal tribute to the Adventure Quest video game, the Frogzard being one of the game’s monsters. […]
Rusty Iron Spear – “Rusty Iron Spear” (2022)
This is my second foray into the Malfortune Discs catalog, the first being the previously reviewed Desolation. Rusty Iron Spear can be considered a compilation, as it includes all five songs previously released by the artist on Bandcamp between 2019 and 2020. On their Bandcamp page Rusty Iron Spear describes their songs as both dungeon […]
Desolation – “Desolation” (2022)
Malfortune Discs is a DIY label based just a few hours down the highway from me, in Portland, Oregon. It first came to my attention with the release of the 12 CDr box set The Chronicle of the Order of the Weeping Willow, a collection of all 14 releases by Order of the Weeping Willow, […]
Hewkii – “Ecstasy Juice From God” (2024)
One of my Top 5 albums in 2020 was IndiaBoy & Pesí B’s The Rise of India, which was released by an Icelandic micro-label called Top Cool Records. Top Cool is a subsidiary of the IndiaBoy Media Group, as is another label called Bulb Mind Records. This got me poking around in the Bulb Mind […]