PAIMON GATE – ADVANCED SATANIC WITCHCRAFT LP (Nuclear War Now! Productions)
Both the aesthetics and – more importantly – the sound are evil as fuck so that’s a pretty good foundation
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“WITH THE CONSTANT ASSAULT OF THE MODERN WORLD AND ITS EVER-SHIFTING GOALPOSTS, IT FEELS AS THOUGH WE CAN’T MAKE HEAD NOR TAIL OF OUR EXISTENCE BUT IT’S ENJOYABLE IN ITS ABSURDITY, SO WHY NOT? I’M NOT DOING ANYTHING ELSE…” – MB (MALTHUSIAN)
Existential dread abounds across Malthusian’s deathly-dark and deeply-unsettling second full-length invocation, ‘The Summoning Bell’ – a depraved and delirious Death
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“THE REAL WORLD IS DARK ENOUGH, GRIM ENOUGH, AND TWISTED ENOUGH TO SATISFY OUR MORBID DESIRES WITH RELATIVE EASE” – DANIEL ROSTÉN (MARDUK)
Has it dawned on you yet? Have you begun to grasp that life is not a clock, but an hourglass?
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“THIS RECORD WAS BUILT LIKE AN ANCIENT TEMPLE OF DEVOTED WORSHIP: THROUGH SHEER PATIENCE, PERSEVERANCE, AND PROSELYTISM OF THE HIGHEST ORDER” – SADISTIK FORNICATOR (NECROMANIAC)
NECROMANIAC is the living dying embodiment of a band that does things its own way and unapologetically exhibits its heart
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KAEVUM – ULTRA (Darker than Black Records)
Propagating prime Norwegian Black Metal of the truest essence, much to the chagrin of many, Kaevum passionately, poignantly, unapologetically take
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BLACK CURSE – BURNING IN CELESTIAL POISON LP (Sepulchral Voice Records)
‘Burning in Celestial Poison’ drowns the world in darkness, death and depravity. Now is not a time for fucking around
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LIFVSLEDA – EVANGELII HÄROLD LP (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
Pickings are so painfully thin that it’s back almost a full year we go to locate a release worthy of
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“DARKNESS ALLOWS YOU TO EXPERIENCE THINGS COMPLETELY DIFFERENTLY” – A. (CHAOS INVOCATION)
For 21 sacrificial years and counting, Chaos Invocation’s singular, spellbinding strain of adversarial Black Metal art has been presented venerably
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RITUAL ASCENSION – PROFANATION OF THE ADAMIC COVENANT LP (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
When times are tough, there’s nothing quite like the foreboding, ominous rumble and tremor of a good Death / Doom
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TEITANBLOOD – FROM THE VISCERAL ABYSS (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
The inimitable (many have tried, all have failed…) maniacal magnificence of Teitanblood teems with tremendous vigour and savagery through every
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