BLOOD INCANTATION – HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE HUMAN RACE LP (Century Media Records)
Drawing heavily on the old-school, ancient brilliance of bands like latter-era Death, Morbid Angel and Pestilence as well as the
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Author: Bornosin
“IT WAS A TIME OF SILENCE, A TIME TO REFLECT AND A TIME TO RETURN TO THE ESSENCE OF THINGS” – PORTAE OBSCURITAS
Obscure Austrian darkness dealers Portae Obscuritas used the lockdown to take stock of things and to continue working on their
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ABHOMINE – PROSELYTE PARASITE PLAGUE LP (Osmose Productions / Hells Headbangers Records)
Veteran wreckers Pete Helmkamp and Cazz Grant condense an unmerciful barrage of violence into 23 minutes on Abhomine’s brief but
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GRIFTESKYMFNING – SVART MATERIA LP (Darker Than Black Records)
After nigh on a decade of suitably mysterious silence, Grifteskymfning returned this year with not one but two new albums:
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“IT TAKES A LEVEL OF INDIVIDUAL ISOLATION, REASON, INTELLIGENCE, DISCIPLINE AND STRENGTH OF WILL TO BREAK THE SHACKLES CULTURE AND COMMUNITY PLACE ON US” – AKHTYA NACHTTOTER / MICHAEL W. FORD
With spiritual bankruptcy and a lack of intelligent, independent thinking posing a greater threat to the population at large than
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SERPENT CREST – RITUAL EUTHANASIA LP (New Era Productions)
From the deepest crevices of the underground, Dutch trio Serpent Crest puke out some weird, uncompromising, primitive, raw Black Metal
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BLACK ALTAR / KIRKEBRANN – DEUS INVERSUS (Odium Records)
Fighting the bad fight for over two decades, Black Altar tend to fly under the hype radar and are certainly
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DESPONDENT MOON – INVOKING THE FREEZING MIST LP (His Wounds)
Channelled by Deorc Weg, Despondent Moon is a one-man entity from the United Kingdom that – perhaps taking inspiration from
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VADER – SOLITUDE IN MADNESS (Nuclear Blast)
If anything, the world has become an even more unbearable place since Vader exploded onto the scene with their landmark
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ARMNATT – DENSE FOG LP (Signal Rex)
‘Dense Fog’, the second full-length from Armnatt, is a short, sharp shock of direct, undiluted, straight-to-the-point raw Black Metal, inherently
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AVERSIO HUMANITATIS – BEHOLD THE SILENT DWELLERS (Debemur Morti Productions)
Having spent the best part of a decade sharpening their weaponry, honing their craft, fine-tuning their attack, building a head
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SEPULCHRAL CURSE – ONLY ASHES REMAIN (Transcending Obscurity Records)
‘Only Ashes Remain’ is the debut full-length from Sepulchral Curse and it comprises precisely three-quarters of an hour of captivating
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SHEZMU – À TRAVERS LES LAMBEAUX (Krucyator Productions)
There’s anguish, anger, grief and lunacy aplenty to be savoured on Shezmu’s debut full-length, ‘À Travers Les Lambeaux’ – a
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NYOGTHAEBLISZ – ABRAHAMIC GODHEAD BESIEGED BY ADVERSARIAL USURPATION LP (Hells Headbangers Records)
It doesn’t happen too often, but sometimes when I’m listening to a record I begin to wonder am I deluding
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“NOT WIPING OURSELVES OUT BY ANY OF A HUNDRED DIFFERENT WAYS WOULD BE A REAL MIRACLE” – KARL SANDERS
History has a terrible habit of repeating itself. With another civilization teetering precariously on the brink of self-inflicted extinction, destined
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