GRAND BELIAL’S KEY – KOHANIC CHARMERS LP (Weltenfeind)
Typically brilliantly monikered, ‘Prayer Shawl of the First Born Donkey’ provides a suitably supreme opening to the first Grand Belial’s
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Author: Gerald Robinson
“PRAISE YOUR FILTHY HUMAN URGES AND PRAISE SATAN AS A FREER FROM YOUR SHACKLES” – FLAGG
A scorching maelstrom of paradoxically familiar yet fresh Black Metal blasphemy and barbarism bristles with belligerence and contempt across Flagg’s
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“LIGHT IS THERE TO SHINE, BUT WITHOUT IMMENSE DARKNESS IT CANNOT BE SEEN” – DEACON D (HETROERTZEN)
All-consuming darkness permeates ‘Phosphorus Vol I’, the seventh full-length sacrament of Hetroertzen, wherein this mystical and mysterious vampiric coven also
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HETROERTZEN – PHOSPHORUS VOL I (Listenable Records)
The crypt reopens and the vampires of Hetroertzen re-merge with a profane decade of new perversions, feasting upon the fruit
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FUNERAL HARVEST – REDEMPTIO (Signal Rex)
The inimitable Wraath lends his decidedly-demonic voice to ‘Fire Sermon’, ‘Principum et Finis’ and ‘The Crimson Night Tide’, and his
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NOCTURNAL SORCERY – THE HOLY LAW IN TOTAL RUIN (Kvlt)
The ever-fertile and -filthy Finnish soil yields another foul blackened crop in the form of ‘The Holy Law in Total
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CULTES DES GHOULES – HENBANE 2LP (Hells Headbangers)
The relentless march of time can be either cruel or kind to music. In the case of Cultes Des Ghoules’
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“TRUE SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL STRENGTH DOES NOT COME FROM GOD, BUT FROM ONESELF” – H.V (BLOOD CHALICE)
The barbaric battery of death-infused brutality blasting forth from Blood Chalice’s sophomore full-length, ‘The Blasphemous Psalms of Cannibalism’, singles the
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DEATHSPELL OMEGA – THE LONG DEFEAT LP (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
The third era of Deathspell Omega commences with ‘The Long Defeat’, which contains a curveball or ten and is a
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BLOOD CHALICE – THE BLASPHEMOUS PSALMS OF CANNIBALISM (Werewolf Records)
Packed to the bursting brim with copious overflows of ferocious, uncompromising Black / Death, Blood Chalice’s second full-length, ‘The Blasphemous
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MARE – EBONY TOWER LP (Terratur Possessions)
There is a reason why – despite decidedly limited studio activity during their nigh-on-20-years of existence – Mare is one
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NEGATIVE PLANE – THE PACT… (Invictus Productions / The Ajna Offensive)
How many contemporary Black Metal acts are there who have successfully forged their own distinctive sound whist remaining relevant (i.e.,
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MORTUUS – DIABLERIE (World Terror Committee)
The way Black Metal has been stagnating, frustrating and infuriating in recent times, it was almost with a sense of
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“I HAVE DEFINITELY SEEN A RESURGENCE OF INDIGENOUS FOLKS RECONNECTING AND LEARNING ABOUT THE OLD WAYS” – HUEY ITZTEKWANOTL O))) (TZOMPANTLI)
Honouring, celebrating and invoking the might, majesty and oftentimes brutality of the Mesoamerican people, Tzompantli’s intoxicating breed of distinctive death
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TZOMPANTLI – TLAZCALTILIZTLI (20 Buck Spin)
Bleeding tradition, heritage, pride and authenticity, Mesoamerican / pre-Hispanic funeral death doom envoys Tzompantli have delivered a unique and engaging
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