HARALD GROSSKOPF - Synthesist LP doom Ordeal is his latest solo

Ordeal is his latest solo output

it pairs familiar genre signifiers like pedal steel and guitar strums with warbled synths

Depressive post Black Metal shoegaze from New Zealand with elements of post rock & atmospheric doom

memorable lyrics of Joseph Talbot delivered with all of the spite and wry humor he puts across on the stage

HARALD GROSSKOPF - Synthesist LP doom Ordeal is his latest solo"Harald Grosskopf was in his early twenties when LSD 'blew [his] reality away,' as he recalls. Born in Hildesheim in 1949, he had previously drummed in fairly conventional rock bands, most recently for Wallenstein. Their label boss Rolf Ulrich Kaiser was fond of facilitating jam sessions for musicians on his Ohr und Pilz label, often supplying his 'cosmic couriers' with LSD (unbeknown to them, on occasion). In one such session, the drug inspired