OSCULUM INFAME – AXIS OF BLOOD 2LP (Battlesk’rs Productions)
Belatedly granted the vinyl treatment in November last, Osculum Infame’s long-overdue sophomore full-length, ‘Axis Of Blood’, is commanding and commendable
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MGŁA – AGE OF EXCUSE LP (Northern Heritage / No Solace)
If it’s not broken, why fix it? Poland’s prime purveyors of naked nihilism hit upon a winning formula on previous
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TURIA – DEGEN VAN LICHT LP (Eisenwald)
Unleashed in February, just before the fucking lights went out, Turia’s third full-length (all three having materialised within the course
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DIE KUNST DER FINSTERNIS – REVENANT IN A PHANTOM WORLD (QUEEN OF OWLS ADDENDUM) LP (Lamech Records / Amor Fati Productions)
Admittedly one of the most atypical albums in my collection, Die Kunst Der Finsternis’ third full-length, ‘Revenant In A Phantom
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CELESTIAL BLOODSHED – CURSED, SCARRED AND FOREVER POSSESSED LP (Debemur Morti / Terratur Possessions)
Exactly eleven years on from the tragic, untimely demise of peerless Celestial Bloodshed frontman Steingrim Torson, I find myself revisiting
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CARCINOID – METASTATIC DECLINATION LP (Blood Harvest)
Carcinoid’s dastardly, primitive debut full-length, ‘Metastatic Declination’, presents 45 minutes of grisly, rancid, rotten Death Metal, paying homage to obvious
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CARPE NOCTEM – VITRUN LP (Code666)
Condensing, distilling the frigid, frozen, barren landscape of their homeland into an epic, lush six-track, 52-minute album, Carpe Noctem proved
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NILE – VILE NILOTIC RITES 2LP (Nuclear Blast)
When it comes to Nile, a short review is never going to even touch the surface of what one of
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MYLINGAR – DÖDA SJÄLAR LP (Amor Fati Productions)
Ferocious vocals are one of the trusted staples of extreme music – or at least should be. The best Death
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ENCOFFINATION – WE PROCLAIM YOUR DEATH, O’ LORD 2LP (Selfmadegod Records)
It’s a decidedly sluggish, laboured, drawn-out demise indeed for o’ lord at the hands of Encoffination, the masters of morbid
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AMNUTSEBA – EMANATISM LP (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Dwelling decrepitly, surreptitiously within the hazy twilight betwixt Death Metal and Black Metal, Amnutseba are not in any immediate danger
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VORTEX OF END – ARDENS FVROR 2LP (Osmose Productions)
Released last summer, when the world was still full of hope and wonder, Vortex of End’s third full-length offering is
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ARMAGEDDA – OND SPIRITISM: DJÆFVVLENS SKALDER ANNO SERPENTI MMIV LP (Nordvis Produktion)
Short-lived but highly significant Swedish Black Metal duo Armagedda treated the freefalling world to three landmark full-lengths in successive years
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SULPHURIC NIGHT – ARCANE MONOLITHS OF TRIUMPHANT DEATH 2LP (Altare Productions / Black Gangrene Productions)
In conspiracy with other high-quality composites such as Void Prayer, Niteris and of course Obskuritatem, Sulphuric Night is part of
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ENTHRONED – COLD BLACK SUNS LP (Season Of Mist)
Nobody in Black Metal flies under the radar quite as majestically, appropriately and inconspicuously as Belgium’s long-serving, oft-reinvented light-crushing battalion
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