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COLD EARTH – YOUR MISERY, MY TRIUMPH LP (Sol Records)

December 17, 2020December 17, 2020 Gerald Robinson Sol Records, Cold Earth, Your Misery My Triumph

Comprising four-fifths of Thorybos (all of whom are also active in numerous other Sol Records cabals) , Cold Earth was

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Black Metal Reviews 

MYSTRUIN – CALCINATION (Lamech Records)

December 16, 2020 Gerald Robinson Lamech Records, Mystruin, Calcination

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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Black Metal Reviews Interviews 

“THE MANY HARDSHIPS CONSPIRING AGAINST US HAVE ONLY MADE US HUNGRIER AND MORE FURIOUS” – ACERBUS (ONDSKAPT)

December 14, 2020December 14, 2020 Gerald Robinson Grimoire Ordo Devus, Ondskapt, Ondskapt interview, Acerbus, Acerbus interview

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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Interviews 

“MOST HUMANS ARE WORTHLESS FLESH ZOMBIES CONSUMED BY THEIR IGNORANCE AND LACK OF CONVICTION” – OMINOUS RESURRECTION

December 13, 2020December 14, 2020 Gerald Robinson Ominous Resurrection, Judgement, Ominous Resurrection interview, Diabolic Gulgalta interview

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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Black Metal Reviews 

VOIDSPHERE – TO SENSE | TO PERCEIVE LP (Amor Fati Productions)

December 10, 2020December 10, 2020 Gerald Robinson Amor Fati Productions, To Sense | To Perceive, Voidsphere

A new consignment of ПРАВА КОЛЛЕКТИВ releases has been conjured from the interstellar ether and, while I enjoy all the

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Interviews 

“MY ONLY HOPE IS THAT DESPAIR TURNS TO ANGER, WHICH IN TURN SPURS PEOPLE ON TO RESIST THIS TYRANNY” – JOSEPH DEEGAN (SLIDHR)

December 8, 2020December 8, 2020 Gerald Robinson Slidhr, Slidhr interview, Joseph Deegan interview

Cursed with obscene weather, widespread inequality, a crippled health system, crooked politicians, a corrupt economy, steep taxes, alcohol dependency, paedophile

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Black Metal Reviews 

INQUISITION – BLACK MASS FOR A BLACK GRAVE (Agonia Records)

December 4, 2020December 4, 2020 Gerald Robinson Agonia Records, Inquisition, Black Mass For A Mass Grave

‘Black Mass For A Mass Grave’ is a surprise on multiple levels. First of all, I presumed Inquisition had ceased

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Death Metal Reviews 

EVAPORATED SORES – ULCEROUS DIMENSIONS LP (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)

December 3, 2020 Gerald Robinson Evaporated Sores, Ulcerous Dimensions

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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Black Metal Reviews 

MARE – SPHERES LIKE DEATH / THRONE OF THE THIRTEENTH WITCH LP (Terratur Possessions)

December 1, 2020December 1, 2020 Gerald Robinson Terratur Possessions, Spheres Like Death ​/​ Throne Of The Thirteenth Witch, Mare

An essential document for those who cherish ritualistic, occult Black Metal, this release collates the two iconic, trailblazing EPs which

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Black Metal Reviews 

SVARTSYN – REQUIEM (Carnal Records)

November 26, 2020November 26, 2020 Gerald Robinson 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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Black Metal Reviews 

ONDSKAPT – GRIMOIRE ORDO DEVUS (Osmose Productions)

November 22, 2020November 22, 2020 Gerald Robinson Osmose Productions, Grimoire Ordo Devus, Ondskapt

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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Black Metal Reviews 

OMINOUS RESURRECTION – JUDGEMENT LP (Terratur Possessions)

November 20, 2020November 20, 2020 Gerald Robinson Terratur Possessions, Ominous Resurrection, Judgement

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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Interviews 

“MAY EVERYONE LIVE ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN WILL AND DESIRES” – TYRANT (MALUM)

November 18, 2020November 18, 2020 Gerald Robinson Purity Through Fire, Malum, Malum interview

As blasphemous Finnish sect Malum prepare to flagellate the flesh of the shamed fraudster once more with six new spells

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Death Metal Reviews 

SERAPHIC ENTOMBMENT – QUELLED (Morbid Chapel Records)

November 17, 2020November 17, 2020 Gerald Robinson Quelled, Morbid Chapel Records, Seraphic Entombment

A dose of decay and decadence reverberating through the speakers leaving a stench of death and disease lingering in the

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Black Metal Reviews 

AKHLYS – MELINOË (Debemur Morti Productions)

November 16, 2020November 16, 2020 Gerald Robinson Debemur Morti Productions, Melinoë, Akhlys

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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