COLD EARTH – YOUR MISERY, MY TRIUMPH LP (Sol Records)
Comprising four-fifths of Thorybos (all of whom are also active in numerous other Sol Records cabals) , Cold Earth was
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Author: Gerald Robinson
MYSTRUIN – CALCINATION (Lamech Records)
Building on the promise demonstrated on their debut full-length, ‘Gånget Äro Ljuset’, six years hitherto, mystical Swedish quintet Mystruin deliver
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“THE MANY HARDSHIPS CONSPIRING AGAINST US HAVE ONLY MADE US HUNGRIER AND MORE FURIOUS” – ACERBUS (ONDSKAPT)
At the grim denouement of an utterly repugnant calendar year that saw mankind cast for perpetuity into all-consuming darkness, it
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“MOST HUMANS ARE WORTHLESS FLESH ZOMBIES CONSUMED BY THEIR IGNORANCE AND LACK OF CONVICTION” – OMINOUS RESURRECTION
Conceived through mountains of bone and valleys of Death, Ominous Resurrection’s eerily-prophetic and utterly-compelling sophomore full-length, ‘Judgement’, provided a powerful
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VOIDSPHERE – TO SENSE | TO PERCEIVE LP (Amor Fati Productions)
A new consignment of ПРАВА КОЛЛЕКТИВ releases has been conjured from the interstellar ether and, while I enjoy all the
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“MY ONLY HOPE IS THAT DESPAIR TURNS TO ANGER, WHICH IN TURN SPURS PEOPLE ON TO RESIST THIS TYRANNY” – JOSEPH DEEGAN (SLIDHR)
Cursed with obscene weather, widespread inequality, a crippled health system, crooked politicians, a corrupt economy, steep taxes, alcohol dependency, paedophile
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INQUISITION – BLACK MASS FOR A BLACK GRAVE (Agonia Records)
‘Black Mass For A Mass Grave’ is a surprise on multiple levels. First of all, I presumed Inquisition had ceased
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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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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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