“WHAT WE DO IS MORE AKIN TO A SERMON OF FIERY PRAISE AT THE MOUNTAIN OF MADNESS” – E (MALAKHIM)
Not alone antichristened with one of the most powerful, evocative and memorable album titles in the storied history of Black
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“EVEN THOUGH THE WORLD IS NOW OVERCROWDED, WE CAN STILL CHOOSE WHERE TO FIND INSPIRATION” – CHELMNO
As Dolomitic Black Metal standard-bearers Chelmno break a decade-and-a-half-long silence with their third full-length offering from the pale mountains, ‘Decadence
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“SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO BE DESTROYED TO COME BACK STRONGER AND BETTER” – LEPIDUS PLAGUE (KOMMODUS)
Consummately-crafted and expertly-executed third Kommodus full-length ‘A Foetal Wolf in Stained Glass’ showcases a dynamic, accomplished and utterly unorthodox underground
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“WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, YOU ARE ALWAYS ALONE IN A CERTAIN WAY” – SCHNEE (ARA)
Born from prolonged bouts of solitude, ARA is an obscure and intriguing novel entity that dares to be different and
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“SOUND, WORD AND WILL CONVERGE AS ONE ACT OF INVOCATION, EACH COMPOSITION A MIRROR TURNED INWARD UNTIL IT REFLECTS WHAT LIES BEYOND” – ZD (LVTHN)
Nine years on from their debut full-length descent, the serpentine seducers of LVTHN return, ablaze with adversarial intent, inviting, nay
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“IT’S VERY DIFFICULT TO PENETRATE THE 3D-BUBBLE INTO REALITY SINCE THERE’S A CONSTANT WAR BEING WAGED AGAINST HUMANITY TO KEEP US DUMBED DOWN WITH INDOCTRINATION, CHEMICALS AND LIES” – STEFAN SANDSTRÖM (LIK / EHLDER / Armagedda)
As tormented and prodigiously-gifted young upstart Graav, he was in a former life pivotal to one of Black Metal’s most
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KOMMODUS – A FOETAL WOLF IN STAINED GLASS (GoatowaRex)
And now for something completely different… Well, for sure Kommodus is not your everyday Black Metal act. And let’s be
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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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