BLACKDEATH – ALSO SPRACH DAS CHAOS LP (End All Life Productions)
Astoundingly, tenth full-length ‘Also Sprach Das Chaos’ showcases Blackdeath sounding as fresh and essential as they have at any time
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CLANDESTINE BLAZE – SECRETS OF LACERATION LP (Northern Heritage Records)
Without ever straying far from the path he first ventured down on ‘Fire Burns In Our Hearts’ all of 22
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PORTAL – AVOW LP (Profound Lore Records)
The swirling swarm of sweeping insanity that is ‘Avow’ arrives as a welcome, orphaned fillip in a time when banality
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“AUTOKRATOR IS BASED ON REALITY OR, MORE PRECISELY, ON OUR OWN VISION AND INTERPRETATION OF THE DARK SIDE OF HUMANITY” – LOÏC.F
Throughout history, the price paid for non-compliance with the diktats and decrees of authority has all too often been severe,
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NIGRUM TENEBRIS – I AM THE SERPENT (Sol Records)
Traversing a barren, abandoned landscape, Nigrum Tenebris delivers a bleak and desolate blast of negative, adversarial Black Metal on abhorrent
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AUTOKRATOR – PERSECUTION (Krucyator Productions)
Autokrator’s harrowing and horrific fourth full-length presents 34 minutes of suffocating Death / Black Metal (with scant traces of doom
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SERPENTRANCE – AKRA TAPEINOSIS (Godz Ov War Productions)
Of darkest decadence and sordid, subterranean decay, Russian abyss dwellers Serpentrance have conjured an otherworldly, oppressive and malodorous debut full-length
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“TO US, BLACK METAL SHOULDN’T TOLERATE CANCEL CULTURE” – IDIMMU (AZAZEL)
Decades-deep in an infamous reign of blasphemy, Satan’s sincere servants Azazel have with nun-defrocking, Christ-flagellating third full-length, ‘Aegrum Satanas Tecum’,
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VORTEX OF END – ABHORRENT FERVOR (Osmose Productions)
Vortex of End have streamlined and honed their attack on third full-length, ‘Abhorrent Fervor’, which delivers a more refined and
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AZAZEL – AEGRUM SATANAS TECUM (Primitive Reaction)
The creepy nocturnal woodland calling of ‘Invocation (Hail the Ancient Ones)’ sets the scene perfectly for Azazel’s Christ-crushing third full-length,
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RITUAL DEATH – LORD OF THE TOMB LP (Terratur Possessions)
‘Lord of the Tomb’ gathers together in chronological order all previously-released Ritual Death material, beginning with the self-titled 7” EP
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SUNWHEEL – IRON AGE OF STRIFE (Militant Zone)
Short instrumental ‘Clouds of War Gather’ ominously announces the return of Sunwheel and the belligerent demonstration of defiance that is
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SORGUINAZIA – NEGATION OF DELIRIUM (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Existentially warped and spiritually dislocated, ‘Negation of Delirium’, the debut full-length from obscure, unorthodox raw Black Metal deviants Sorguinazia is
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“WE’VE FOCUSSED MORE ON ASPECTS OF BLACK METAL THAT WE APPRECIATE AND THAT PROBABLY COMES THROUGH IN OUR FINAL PRODUCT” – ILLUGI (MANNVEIRA)
On their long-awaited debut full-length, Mannveira have embarked on an introspective and deeply personal journey to the heart of darkness
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QRIXKUOR – POISON PALINOPSIA (Dark Descent Records / Invictus Productions)
A statement that surely nobody could disagree with: Qrixkuor’s debut full-length has been more than worth the wait. In many
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