Gerald Robinson - Swallowed In Black

“IT WOULD BE ABSURD TO LOOK AWAY AS THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WON’T EVER CHANGE AND WE HAVE TO ACCEPT IT” – ATARAXY

June 21, 2023 Gerald Robinson Ataraxy, The Last Mirror, Ataraxy interview

Drawing inspiration not from fiction but the immense, irreversible tragedy and horror of the human experience, Aragonese dark death dealers

Interviews

“MY MUSIC WILL ALWAYS RAISE HELL AND MAKE YOU FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE” – FINIAN PATRAIC

June 7, 2023June 8, 2023 Gerald Robinson Ifernach, Finian Patraic interview, Finian Patraic, Aufnorden

Despite dwelling in almost perfect isolation from an increasingly illogical and inverted outside world, Finian Patraic still succeeds in ruffling

Interviews

“CHOOSING BABYLON OVER JERUSALEM IS A METAPHOR FOR CHOOSING THE CREATED WORLD OVER THE TRANSCENDENT HEAVEN OF THE CREATOR” – MALACH ADONAI (DØDSENGEL)

May 30, 2023May 30, 2023 Gerald Robinson Dødsengel, Bab Al On, Dødsengel interview, Malach Adonai interview

For a score of years less four, inimitable occult oddity Dødsengel has harvested an uncannily nourishing bounty of obscure, illuminating

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COSCRADH – NAHANAGAN STADIAL LP (Invictus Productions)

June 3, 2023June 3, 2023 Gerald Robinson Invictus Productions, Nahanagan Stadial, Coscradh

A cleansing, apocalyptic sonic storm erupts ominously on ‘Nahanagan Stadial’, the debut Coscradh full-length onslaught, and never relents, inexorably obliterating

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IMPETUOUS RITUAL – INIQUITOUS BARBARIK SYNTHESIS (Profound Lore Records)

May 9, 2023May 9, 2023 Gerald Robinson Profound Lore Records, Impetuous Ritual, Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis

A swirling maelstrom of unstoppable sonic fury erupts to usher in the fourth Impetuous Ritual full-length and the irrepressible chaos

Black Metal Reviews

CLANDESTINE BLAZE – DELIVERERS OF FAITH LP (Northern Heritage Records)

April 6, 2023April 6, 2023 Gerald Robinson Clandestine Blaze, Northern Heritage Records, Deliverers of Faith

The fourth filthy Clandestine Blaze album, ‘Deliverers of Faith’, emerged in 2005 and – alongside its equally immense follow-up, ‘Church

Black Metal Reviews

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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