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PALE SPEKTRE – BEREFT OF XEROTIC LAYERS LP (Amor Fati Productions / Nuclear War Now! Productions)

March 26, 2023March 26, 2023 Gerald Robinson Nuclear War Now, Amor Fati Productions, Bereft of Xerotic Layers, Pale Spektre

Stellar drumming is just one of the many outstanding attributes that enable Pale Spektre’s highly-charged opening full-length shot, ‘Bereft of

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Black Metal Reviews 

SODALITY – BENEDICTION PART 1 LP (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)

March 21, 2023March 21, 2023 Gerald Robinson Norma Evangelium Diaboli, Sodality, Benediction Part 1

The inimitably-evil enunciation of Mark of the Devil dovetails demonically with the macabre musicianship of T. Kaos to startling, inspirational

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Interviews 

“HUMANITY NO LONGER ACTS ACCORDING TO LOGIC, BUT TO WHAT THE AUTHORITIES AND THE MEDIA SAY” – ADRASTOS (TOTAL HATE)

March 14, 2023March 14, 2023 Gerald Robinson Total Hate, Total Hate interview, Adrastos interview, Marching Towards Humanicide

With their ferocious fifth full-length offensive, ‘Marching Towards Humanicide’, unforgiving Franconian Black Metal insurgents Total Hate deliver a trademark incendiary

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Interviews 

“THIS IS WHERE WE BELONG AND WE’RE NOT GOING TO PRETEND TO BE SOMEONE WE’RE NOT” – GRINDAK (ETERNAL ROT)

March 11, 2023March 11, 2023 Gerald Robinson Eternal Rot, Eternal Rot interview, Grindak interview

Lurking undead within the foulest cesspools of the underground, the contaminated cadavers of Eternal Rot have refreshingly regurgitated a noxious

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Black Metal Reviews 

DØDSENGEL – BAB AL ON 2LP (Debemur Morti Productions)

March 5, 2023March 5, 2023 Gerald Robinson Dødsengel, Debemur Morti Productions, Bab Al On

Rewind ten-fourteen years to Dødsengel’s glorious formative years, when the self-proclaimed Norwegian angel of death arrived with murderous intent into

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Interviews 

“HUMANITY SHOULD STILL SOMEHOW SUFFER TREMENDOUSLY, UNPRECEDENTEDLY, BEFORE IT CEASES TO EXIST” – NUMINOUS

February 21, 2023February 22, 2023 Gerald Robinson Numinous, Numinous interview

In faithful servitude to divine evil, Numinous wages war on the contemptible creation of the enemy and invokes the destruction

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Interviews 

“THERE’S A LOT I HONOUR ABOUT THE ORIGINATORS OF BLACK METAL AND WE WOULDN’T BE HERE TODAY IF IT WEREN’T FOR THEM” – D.G. (MISÞYRMING)

February 14, 2023February 22, 2023 Gerald Robinson Misþyrming, Með hamri, Misþyrming interview, D.G. interview

At once revisiting and reimagining the raucous belligerence of ‘Söngvar elds og óreiðu’ whilst expanding upon this trailblazing Icelandic enigma’s

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Black Metal Reviews 

VERMINOUS SERPENT – THE MALIGN COVENANT (Amor Fati Productions)

February 5, 2023 Gerald Robinson Amor Fati Productions, The Malign Covenant, Verminous Serpent

An unlikely convergence yields unpredictable and remarkable results on ‘The Malign Covenant’ – 41 minutes of occult doom-infused black necromancy

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Interviews 

“WE FIND IT IMPORTANT TO TRY AND FOLLOW OUR OWN PATH, REGARDLESS OF WHAT OTHERS ARE DOING” – NAMELESS VOID (NEGATIVE PLANE)

January 27, 2023January 27, 2023 Gerald Robinson Negative Plane, The Pact, Negative Plane interview, Nameless Void interview

Weaving together a sinister sequence of nefarious deeds perpetrated on consecrated ground, Negative Plane’s ground-breaking third full-length, ‘The Pact…’, is

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Interviews 

“THE RETURN TO THE TRENCHES OF THE WESTERN FRONT WAS AN INTENTIONAL DECISION THAT TAKES THE BAND BACK AROUND, FULL CIRCLE, TO WHERE I BEGAN” – KRIEGSHAMMER (MINENWERFER)

January 25, 2023January 25, 2023 Gerald Robinson Minenwerfer, Feuerwalze, Minenwerfer interview, Kriegshammer interview

Bathed in the eerie crimson glow of the Somme, riddled with lice, hobbled by trench foot, malnourished, sleep-deprived and with

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Black Metal Reviews 

APOGEION – ASTROLATRIA I: INITIATIO. (Northern Heritage Records)

February 9, 2023February 9, 2023 Gerald Robinson Northern Heritage Records, Apogeion, Astrolatria I: Initiatio.

I was tempted to observe that Northern Heritage is on a rich run of form right now but in fairness

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Black Metal Reviews 

SCÁTH NA DÉITHE – VIRULENT PROVIDENCE (Vendetta Records)

February 8, 2023February 8, 2023 Gerald Robinson Vendetta Records, Scáth na Déithe, Virulent Providence

Ancient Ireland’s harrowing and traumatic history – one of unimaginable hardship and suffering – is laid bare in a rich

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Black Metal Reviews 

FUNERAL WINDS – STIGMATA MALI (Osmose Productions)

February 2, 2023February 2, 2023 Gerald Robinson Osmose Productions, Funeral Winds, Stigmata Mali

No respite from Funeral Winds. If anything, the ferocious offensive against the holy trinity is becoming more fearsome with the

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Black Metal Reviews 

NOCTURNAL DEPARTURE – CLANDESTINE THEURGY (Hells Headbangers Records)

January 31, 2023January 31, 2023 Gerald Robinson Hells Headbangers Records, Clandestine Theurgy, Nocturnal Departure

Ghastly ghoulish growls and soul-shredding shrieks of the damned vie for supremacy on the scathing surface of ‘Clandestine Theurgy’, the

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Black Metal Reviews 

MINENWERFER – FEUERWALZE (Osmose Productions)

January 19, 2023January 19, 2023 Gerald Robinson Osmose Productions, Minenwerfer, Feuerwalze

After four years (fittingly) of quiet on the western front, Californian warmongers Minenwerfer return with a fresh and devastating wave

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