“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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Author: Bornosin
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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NAPALM DEATH – THROES OF JOY IN THE JAWS OF DEFEATISM (Century Media Records)
A veritable law unto themselves for the best part of 40 years and counting, the pioneering, peerless fathers of grind,
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BOG BODY / PRIMITIVE WARFARE – THE GATE OF GRIEF / UNDULATING TORMENT (Stygian Black Hand)
Unnerving North American two-man units Bog Body and Primitive Warfare collaborate on this magnificent split MLP, presenting half an hour’s
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“I’VE ALWAYS BEEN OBSESSED WITH THE IDEA OF SOME MAGIC BEING LEFT IN THE WORLD” – LEPIDUS PLAGUE (KOMMODUS)
Presenting 75 minutes of raw Black Metal mastery, Kommodus’ self-titled debut full-length is as enigmatic as it is ambitious. The
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BARGHEST – ALTARS OF ROT (Independent)
Hatred, contempt and misanthropy reign supreme on ‘Altars Of Rot’, the third full-length from infuriated US quartet Barghest. Black Metal
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ABATUAR – MORTANDAD (Dunkelheit Produktionen)
Telling tall, terrible tales of necromantic rituals, death reverence and frenzied bloodletting, Abatuar’s sophomore full-length presents almost half an hour
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MALICIOUS – DERANGED HEXES (Invictus Productions)
‘Deranged Hexes’, the debut full-length from Malicious, is a short, sharp shock of barbaric, uncompromising Black / Death Metal, eight
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“IMPURITY AND VERMIN BREED IN STAGNANT POOLS – FLOW AND MOVEMENT IS THE NATURAL WAY TO CLEANSE THE BLOOD” – CORPSESSED
In these unprecedented, alien times of plague, isolation and paranoia, as the new normal takes hold like a spiritual cancer,
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“TALKING ABOUT STANDARD, SLASHER FANTASIES WORKS FOR SOME BANDS BUT WE HAVE ALWAYS KEPT IT CLOSER TO REALITY” – NECROT
For all its gore, brutality and extremity, perhaps even Death Metal cannot succeed in conveying the real horror of everyday
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FACELESS BURIAL – SPECIATION (Dark Descent Records / Me Saco Un Ojo Records)
Australian trio Faceless Burial go back to the future again for their sophomore full-length, ‘Speciation’, which is deeply rooted in
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