BOG BODY – CRYONIC CREVASSE CULT (Profound Lore Records)
The uncannily skilful deployment of bass, drums and vocals alone lends Bog Body’s music a disturbing, organic sense of decay
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Author: Gerald Robinson
HELL MILITIA – HOLLOW VOID (Season of Mist Underground Activists)
Despite a significant overhaul in personnel and a silence that lasted a decade, Hell Militia returns with a fourth full-length
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DEMONIC TEMPLE – THROUGH THE STARS AND INTO THE ABYSS (Putrid Cult / Dark Horizon Records)
After the suitably ominous cosmic terror of the brief but unsettling intro that is ‘Nox’, the third Demonic Temple full-length
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MALTHUSIAN / SUFFERING HOUR – TIME’S WITHERING SHADOW (Invictus Productions)
Opening atrocity ‘Dissolution of Consciousness’ is a suitably seething maelstrom of chaos and carnage from Ireland’s heaving heavyweights of unrestrained
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DARVAZA – ASCENDING INTO PERDITION LP (Terratur Possessions)
Already a proven staple of the Black Metal underground on the strength of their incendiary live performances and stellar mini
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AKERBELTZ – MERCILESS (BlackSeed Productions)
Longstanding Catalonian one-man act Akerbeltz hit a career high with sixth full-length, ‘Satànic’, which was released in 2017, and now,
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DAKHMA – BLESSINGS OF AMURDAD (Eisenwald)
In these characterless, vanilla times of repetitive, weak, monotonous cultural tedium, it has become painfully difficult to find artists of
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“IT TOUCHES UPON DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF MAIN RELIGIONS, LIKE BUDDHISM, WITH THEIR ALMOST COMPOST-LIKE REINCARNATION HORROR, AS WELL AS CHRISTIANS AND THEIR LOVE FOR DECOMPOSED RELICS AND FLESH-EATING RITUALS” – VALAIS
The inherent stupidity of man, death worship and the perverse absurdity of religious devotion are wantonly explored on Valais’ seething,
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“YOU DRIVE UP THROUGH THE WHITE MOUNTAINS AND YOU WILL FEEL IT…” – HEATHEN (NORTHERN)
Channelling the inherent evil and insufferable hostility of New Hampshire, where the inexorable might of nature holds dominion over all
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“ALL CIVILISATIONS MUST FALL AS ALL PROGRESS EVENTUALLY REACHES ITS APOGEUM AND FROM THEN ON IT’S SIMPLY A DOWNWARD ROLLERCOASTER” – T. KAOS (LVCIFYRE)
On the immense exploration of creation and destruction that constitutes monolithic, mesmeric third full-length ‘The Broken Seal’ – poignantly realised
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NORTHERN – CABIN FEVER (Sinistrari Records)
A continuation of cult USBM act Cold Northern Vengeance, NortherN emerges from the frigid, barren outpost of New Hampshire –
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BLUTUMHANG – THE FIRES OF DOMINATION (Nithstang Productions)
At last there’s something exciting stirring once more in the deepest, darkest recesses of the underground and how pertinent that
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VALAC – BURNING DAWN OF VENGEANCE LP (Black Gangrene Productions / Banner of Blood)
Channelling the singular vision of one individual and executed with class and feeling, Valac’s second full-length offering, ‘Burning Dawn of
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PESTILENGTH – BASOM GRYPHOS (Nuclear Winter Records)
From the very same territory that gave birth to the obliterating might of Altarage roars forth another irresistible anonymous force,
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LAMP OF MURMUUR – SUBMISSION AND SLAVERY (Black Gangrene Productions)
The seemingly-exponential proliferation of raw and noisy Black Metal in recent times has been such that there are almost as
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