CLANDESTINE BLAZE – CITY OF SLAUGHTER LP (Northern Heritage Records)
Clandestine Blaze is one of the most enduring, essential and downright awesome entities in Black Metal and has consistently delivered
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TEITANBLOOD – ACCURSED SKIN MLP (Norma Evangelium Diaboli / The Ajna Offensive)
‘Accursed Skin’ is a 26-minute-long, 45rpm MLP featuring one new song – the title track – paired with ‘Sanctified Dysecdysis’,
Read moreDIABOLI – WIKING DIVISION LP (Northern Heritage)
This record is about a year old already but I’ve only just recently added it to my collection. I’d been
Read moreUŠKUMGALLU – ROTTEN LIMBS IN DREAMS OF BLOOD LP (Vrasubatlat)
Uškumgallu’s debut full-length, ‘Rotten Limbs In Dreams Of Blood’, is a twisted, depraved slab of sinister, primitive Black / Death
Read moreBLOOD TYRANT – NIGHT OF BLOOD MOON LP (Skjold)
This is Blood Tyrant’s eight-song 2016 demo reissued on vinyl (plus one bonus track). As is often the case with
Read moreBLACK CILICE – BANISHED FROM TIME LP (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Every new Black Cilice record represents a truly seismic event in my living room and ‘Banished From Time’ is no
Read moreDEATHSPELL OMEGA – THE SYNARCHY OF MOLTEN BONES LP (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
I’m not sure exactly what criteria Deathspell Omega deploy to determine which of their releases qualify as full-lengths and which
Read moreFATHERLAND – FATHERLAND LP (No Sign Of Life Records)
To an extent, I think that Fatherland might be better served by channeling a larger percentage of their red-hot hate
Read moreOSTOTS – EZER EZAREN ARAZTASUNA LP (Altare Productions / Skjold)
‘Ezer Ezaren Araztasuna’ – another Ostots album title that I will never utter. I used Google Translate to find out
Read moreTURIA – DOR LP (Altare Productions)
The accompanying brouhaha was conspicuous by its absence when Turia unleashed their debut full-length last year but that doesn’t really
Read moreCARVED CROSS – CARVED CROSS LP (Overuse)
Sharing a member with Forbidden Citadel of Spirits, Carved Cross is another raw Black Metal entity from the never-to-be-visited-by me
Read moreTHE RUINS OF BEVERAST – TAKITUM TOOTEM! EP (Ván Records)
At shy of 21 minutes, ‘Takitum Tootem!’ lasts about as long as a good shit but it’s still a very
Read moreANTAEUS – CONDEMNATION LP (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
A full decade on from ‘Blood Libels’, I had subconsciously given up on ever hearing another Antaeus full-length. Thus, it
Read moreARRIA PAETUS – ARRIA PAETUS (Lycaean Triune)
Emerging from the darkness, despair and desolation of Alaska, Arria Paetus spew forth their self-titled debut full-length and it’s immediately
Read moreORATION MMXVII – HÚRRA, REYKJAVÍK, ICELAND (February 16-18, 2017)
Eighteen bands took to the stage at Húrra in Reykjavík over the course of three dark nights in February, 2017
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