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“THE HOPES OF YOUTH HAVE BEEN DROWNED IN THE TEDIOUS, DISCOURAGING AND UNSURPRISING EVOLUTION OF HUMAN LIVESTOCK” – OUTRE-TOMBE (AKITSA)

December 5, 2022 Gerald Robinson Akitsa, Sang Nordique, Akitsa interview, Outre-Tombe interview

A score of spirit-sapping, soul-destroying years has passed since Outre-Tombe audaciously lit the touchpaper for Québécois Black Metal by issuing

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“LIKE A STRIKE OF LIGHTNING, IT AWAKENED AND OPENED SOMETHING IN ME” – WRAATH (RITUAL DEATH)

November 30, 2022December 3, 2022 Gerald Robinson Ritual Death, Ritual Death interview, Wraath, Wraath interview

Celebrating and evoking the inevitable fate that awaits us all, Ritual Death’s deliriously-decadent and predictably-self-titled debut full-length reeks of necromancy

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“BLACK METAL IS ABOUT SPIRITUAL LIBERATION FROM THE SHACKLES OF THE DEMIURGE” – SEMJAZA (THY DARKENED SHADE)

November 28, 2022November 28, 2022 Gerald Robinson Thy Darkened Shade, SamaeLilith: A Conjunction of the Fireborn, Thy Darkened Shade interview, Semjaza interview, Liber Lvcifer II: Mahapralaya

Profusing promethean fire, channelling chaos and advocating adversary in His name, inimitable initiates Thy Darkened Shade deliver epic, elevated third

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“SOME HAVE FEAR, OTHERS EMBRACE IT WHEN IT COMES, SOME ARE AT PEACE, SOME WILL PRAY FOR MORE TIME” – MkM (ANTAEUS)

October 5, 2022October 7, 2022 Gerald Robinson Antaeus, Antaeus interview, MkM interview

Like some surreal viciously-pulsing severed artery of sonic excess, Antaeus sprayed forth from the gushing sewers of Paris a bloodletting

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“I SEE ‘REDEMPTIO’ AS THE GREAT BEAST THAT ARISES ABOVE EVERYTHING WITH DIFFERENT VOICES AND FACES IN ONLY ONE FURY” – LORD NATHAS (FUNERAL HARVEST)

October 12, 2022October 12, 2022 Gerald Robinson Redemptio, Funeral Harvest, Funeral Harvest interview, Lord Nathas interview

How apt in these days of spiritual destitution that Funeral Harvest should strike vengefully with debut full-length, ‘Redemptio’, swinging their

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“SINCE WHEN SHOULD BLACK METAL BE SMOOTH AND HARMLESS MUSIC, A ‘SAFE SPACE’ FOR WEAK PEOPLE?” – NOKTURN (AUTARCIE)

October 3, 2022October 3, 2022 Gerald Robinson Autarcie, Autarcie interview, Apogée. Ivresse. Agonie.

Evoking a uniquely rich cultural heritage by revisiting glorious bygone epochs from France’s illustrious history, Autarcie’s powerfully nostalgic and emotive

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“TO EXIST AMONG THESE MENDACIOUS MASSES IS THE REAL HELL” – GRÀNT (GRÀB)

October 8, 2022 Gerald Robinson Gràb interview, Gràb, Grànt interview, Zeitlang

Transfused with an importation of Ingvaeonic blood, Gràb returns from its temporary resting place in the silent, peaceful Bavarian grave

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“LIGHT IS THERE TO SHINE, BUT WITHOUT IMMENSE DARKNESS IT CANNOT BE SEEN” – DEACON D (HETROERTZEN)

September 11, 2022September 11, 2022 Gerald Robinson Hetroertzen, Phosphorus Vol I, Deacon D interview, Hetroertzen interview

All-consuming darkness permeates ‘Phosphorus Vol I’, the seventh full-length sacrament of Hetroertzen, wherein this mystical and mysterious vampiric coven also