EVAPORATED SORES – ULCEROUS DIMENSIONS LP (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
It would be no exaggeration to describe Evaporated Sores’ challenging debut full-length as a hideous maelstrom of unforgiving auditory chaos,
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Author: Gerald Robinson
MARE – SPHERES LIKE DEATH / THRONE OF THE THIRTEENTH WITCH LP (Terratur Possessions)
An essential document for those who cherish ritualistic, occult Black Metal, this release collates the two iconic, trailblazing EPs which
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SVARTSYN – REQUIEM (Carnal Records)
With nary a glimmer of light nor salvation, Svartsyn’s harrowing and unholy tenth full-length, ‘Requiem’, unceremoniously flings open the floodgates
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ONDSKAPT – GRIMOIRE ORDO DEVUS (Osmose Productions)
A wicked, malevolent prelude introduces the fourth Ondskapt curse before ‘Semita Sinistram’ guides us contemptuously towards the left-hand path and
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OMINOUS RESURRECTION – JUDGEMENT LP (Terratur Possessions)
Having enjoyed Ominous Resurrection’s 2014 debut full-length, ‘Omniscient’, albeit without quite being blown away, I had sort of forgotten about
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“MAY EVERYONE LIVE ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN WILL AND DESIRES” – TYRANT (MALUM)
As blasphemous Finnish sect Malum prepare to flagellate the flesh of the shamed fraudster once more with six new spells
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SERAPHIC ENTOMBMENT – QUELLED (Morbid Chapel Records)
A dose of decay and decadence reverberating through the speakers leaving a stench of death and disease lingering in the
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AKHLYS – MELINOË (Debemur Morti Productions)
The disorientating, debilitating nightmare resumes five years on as Akhlys returns with third full-length ‘Melinoë’, a terrifyingly lucid and lurid
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SATANIZE – BAPHOMET ALTAR WORSHIP (Helter Skelter Productions)
They may have migrated onto a new label but precious little else has changed in the Satanize camp. Sonically, the
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INTHYFLESH – CRAWL BENEATH OUR SHADOW LP (Drakkar Productions)
Beginning with the venomous, contemptuous ‘Worship Darkness Rising’, Inthyflesh pour scorn and ridicule on religion (“all meaningless creeds”) and celebrate
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THY FUNERAL – THE END OF LIFE (Subterranean Aftersounds / Total Därkness Propaganda)
This long-since defunct Hungarian one-man entity is about as obscure and underground as they come. Recorded some 15 years ago,
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PAGAN HELLFIRE – AT THE RESTING DEPTHS ETERNAL LP (Tour De Garde)
A couple of years have passed already since Pagan Hellfire’s majestic sixth and most-recent full-length, ‘At The Resting Depths Eternal’,
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“INSIDE THE FINNISH MAN LIVES THIS DEMON, THE PERKELE, WHO IS JUST WAITING TO GET OUT” – VALGRINDER (FÖRGJORD)
Immortalising in timeless Black Metal malevolence the victims of some of the most appalling atrocities in their nation’s cruel history,
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UNDERGANG – ALDRIG I LIVET (Me Saco Un Ojo Records / Dark Descent Records)
From the foulest sewers of Copenhagen arrives Undergang’s compellingly gross and captivating fifth full-length, ‘Aldrig I Livet’. A decade on
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“I WOULD’VE WELCOMED A MANDATORY EXPOSURE FOR EVERYONE AND ALL OF THIS WOULD’VE BEEN OVER AND DEALT WITH” – SHATRAUG (HORNA)
A quarter of a century on from their maiden recording, the expansive new Horna full-length, ‘Kuoleman Kirjo’, arrives as a
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