ANCIENT BURIAL – BEYOND THE WATCHTOWERS LP (Signal Rex)
Not for the weak-eared or sensitive or easily-offended or even those possessed with merely a passing / pretentious interest in
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PORTAE OBSCURITAS – LVX ATRA AETERNA LP (Lamech Records)
Do we really need yet another hypnotic, ritualistic, trance-inducing Black Metal album? Of course we fucking well do. I could
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ULCERATE – STARE INTO DEATH AND BE STILL (Debemur Morti Productions)
Death is everywhere these days. It’s unavoidable. Wait a minute … has this not always been the case? While mounting
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CULT OF ERINYES – ÆSTIVATION LP (Amor Fati Productions)
Through a veritable fusillade of rage and venom, Cult Of Erinyes smash through the speakers with obliterating intent on their
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SOMBRE HÉRITAGE – ALPHA URSAE MINORIS (Sepulchral Productions)
In keeping with its status as one of the world’s coldest provinces, Québec has proven to be the ideal breeding
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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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