DRASTUS – VENOMS 2LP (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
Having made an indelible mark with last year’s wonderful sophomore full-length, ‘La Croix De Sang’, Drastus goes back in time
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Author: Gerald Robinson
ARMAGEDDA – SVINDELDJUP ÄTTESTUP LP (Nordvis Produktion)
The perpetual pain and mental torment of a summer of seemingly-endless misery and despair was interrupted – albeit temporarily –
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SAD – MISTY BREATH OF ANCIENT FORESTS (Purity Through Fire)
Eschewing the epic grandeur and warm-blooded romance of Hellenic Black Metal, SAD has always been something of an anomaly within
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BLOODSOAKED NECROVOID – EXPELLED INTO THE UNKNOWN DEPTHS OF THE UNFATHOMABLE (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Costa Rica’s cosmic conspirators Bloodsoaked Necrovoid demonstrated their unnerving, uncanny ability to conjure the most disturbing abyssal blackened Death /
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“WE MUST EVENTUALLY ACCEPT THAT NOTHING IS MEANT TO LAST FOREVER, AS MUCH AS IT TERRIFIES US TO OUR CORE AND WOUNDS US DEEP WITHIN OUR SOULS” – ATRAMENTUS
Depicting utter despondency, desolation and dejection, Atramentus’ harrowing debut full-length, ‘Stygian’, is a devastating descent to the deepest depths of
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ATRAMENTUS – STYGIAN (20 Buck Spin)
‘Stygian’, the debut full-length from Atramentus, presents three-quarters-of-an-hour of harrowing, soul-crushing Funeral Doom that will quite literally give you the
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AVZHIA – DARK EMPERORS LP (Werewolf Records)
Recorded way back in 1996, ‘Dark Emperors’ is a masterpiece of mercurial, medieval, Mexican Black Metal majesty. Conjuring wicked, nocturnal
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PROMETHEUS – RESONANT ECHOES FROM COSMOS OF OLD (I, Voidhanger Records)
Inspired by the writings of H.P. Lovecraft, Prometheus’ sophomore full-length ‘Resonant Echoes From Cosmos Of Old’ is perhaps one of
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“BLACK METAL MUST CONVEY A CERTAIN KIND OF DARKNESS TO THE LISTENER” – ASKE
As innumerable interlopers of dubious ideological inclination shamelessly claim Black Metal as their own, are the original dark and dangerous
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WITCHCRAFT / ASKE – DEAD CHRIST PRAYER LP (Nuclear War Now! Productions)
Reeking of fevered underground authenticity and burning black filth, ‘Dead Christ Prayer’ is an indispensable collaboration of raw, lo-fi Finnish
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KOMMANDO BAPHOMET – UNDER THE DEATHSIGN (Godz Ov War Productions)
It’s been less than a year since Portuguese duo Kommando Baphomet unleashed their debut full-length, ‘Black Gospel Of Satanic Inquisition’,
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“FOR HOW INTELLIGENT A SPECIES WE ARE, AND HOW FAR WE’VE COME, WE CAN’T SEEM TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO EVOLVE, CO-HABIT AND PROSPER WITHOUT THE CONTINUED DESTRUCTION OF OURSELVES” – BOG BODY
Bog Body’s primitive, savage death rituals celebrate the transience of human life in all its harrowing glory, the fleeting nature
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“SIGNIFICANT PORTIONS OF POPULATIONS AROUND THE WORLD HAVE BEEN CONDITIONED TO THINK THAT THEIR PATCH OF LAND IS THEIR PATCH OF LAND” – BARNEY GREENWAY
Paradoxically pairing some of the most vitriolic, abrasive and confrontational music on the face of this godforsaken planet with profoundly
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GOREPHILIA – IN THE EYE OF NOTHING (Me Saco Un Ojo Records / Dark Descent Records)
Gorephilia have produced an excellent slab of hulking, fleshy Death Metal on their third full-length, ‘In The Eye Of Nothing’,
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DECOHERENCE – UNITARITY LP (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
From the deepest, darkest depths of the unknown cosmos, Decoherence propel forth their second full-length strike of annihilating, terrifying cosmological
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