OLDOWAN GASH – HUBRIS UNCHAINED LP (Drakkar Productions)
Packed with pride, passion, defiance and contempt aimed towards pitiful, weak humanity (“specks who defile the land, a wretched disease”),
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Author: Gerald Robinson
CRYPTAE – NIGHTMARE TRAVERSAL (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
Swarming, crushing, encircling, suffocating, ‘Nightmare Traversal’ – the demented debut full-length from eccentric Dutch duo Cryptae – presents 30-odd minutes
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“WITH ALL THE SUFFERING, PAIN AND EMOTIONAL AGONY WE’VE TO ENDURE ON THE JOURNEY, IT’S BETTER TO FIND SOMETHING THAT BRINGS YOU JOY AND JUST DO THAT OVER AND OVER AGAIN TO THE BEST OF YOUR ABLITIES UNTIL YOU’RE GONE” – BLOODSOAKED NECROVOID
A nightmare conceived of the darkest cosmos, Bloodsoaked Necrovoid’s debut full-length, ‘Expelled Into The Unknown Depths Of The Unfathomable’, is
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VERMISST – ZMIERZCH STALOWEJ CIEMNOŚCI LP (Signal Rex)
Bolstered by the inclusion of three outstanding bonus tracks on Side B, which bring proceedings boldly into full-length territory at
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VOID PRAYER – THE GRANDIOSE RETURN TO THE VOID LP (Black Gangrene Productions / Altare Productions)
For the countless webzines that are out there – with new ones popping up every week – purporting to promote
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SEPTAGE – SEPTIC DECADENCE (Me Saco Un Ojo Records / Extremely Rotten Productions)
Comprising four steaming regurgitations splattered across twelve contagious minutes, ‘Septic Decadence’ is the debut demo EP from sick Danish upstarts
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STRIGES – VERUM VETERUM (Blut & Eisen Productions)
It came from nowhere and it’s wholly apt that Striges’ debut full-length should arrive like a bolt from the black
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HORNA – KUOLEMAN KIRJO (World Terror Committee)
Brandishing the black flame for more than a quarter of a century, Horna are firmly established as one of the
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FÖRGJORD – UHRIPUU LP (Werewolf Records)
Originally unveiled in 2017, Förgjord’s fourth full-length, ‘Uhripuu’ has been given the long-overdue vinyl treatment by their compatriot and in-form
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SKÁPHE – SKÁPHE³ (Iron Bonehead Productions / Mystískaos)
New Skáphe material is always to be welcomed … perhaps even more so during these unprecedented times of absolute misery
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“I SUPPOSE IT’S A METAPHOR FOR LIVING WITH A MENTAL ILLNESS, FOR LOSING PART OF ONESELF AND COMING FACE TO FACE WITH THE DARKNESS THAT REMAINS IN ITS PLACE” – PNEUMA HAGION
With ‘Voidgazer’, Pneuma Hagion has delivered a truly harrowing and ghastly debut full-length that bleeds bleakness, despair and alienation. I
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“I DON’T CONSIDER MYSELF A VERY SPIRITUAL OR RELIGIOUS PERSON, SO IN MY MIND IT’S PRETTY ABSURD TO THINK THAT WE’RE NOT OF THE COSMOS” – GARÐAR S. JÓNSSON / ALMYRKVI
A deeply-personal exploration of awe-inspiring, cosmic Black Metal, Almyrkvi represents the singular, interstellar vision of Sinmara guitarist Garðar S. Jónsson,
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PNEUMA HAGION – VOIDGAZER (Nuclear War Now! Productions)
An ancient evil is contemptuously unleashed on Pneuma Hagion’s disturbing and devastating debut full-length, ‘Voidgazer’, a nightmarish creation which summons
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CULTUM INTERITUM – POISON OF BEING (Godz Ov War Productions)
More bleak, nihilistic negation emanates from the underground courtesy of Polish trio Cultum Interitum, whose debut full-length, ‘Poison Of Being’,
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HABORYM – THE SUN HAS FALLEN LP (Werewolf Records)
Originally released in 2013, Haborym’s little-known sophomore full-length, ‘The Sun Has Fallen’, has been given the long-overdue vinyl treatment by
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