DEMONCY – BLACK STAR GNOSIS LP (Dark Descent Records)
‘Black Star Gnosis’ is a truly evil-sounding record that transports us magickally back the olden days of Black Metal, and
Read more
Author: Bornosin
MARDUK – MEMENTO MORI LP (Century Media Records)
So much has already been said and written about the ridiculously-great ‘Memento Mori’ in the five months or so since
Read more
“WHO WOULD HAVE BELIEVED IN THE ‘90s THAT BLACK METAL WOULD BE MUSIC PLAYED AT PLACES SUCH AS HELLFEST, WOULD WIN AWARDS IN NORDIC COUNTRIES, OR WOULD HAVE T-SHIRTS AT H&M STORES?” – PERVERSIFIER (MERRIMACK)
The peerless, pioneering, persevering force of supreme Parisian Black Metal made manifest under the Merrimack banner is ready to expand
Read more
“IT IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE TO CREATE SOMETHING UNIQUE” – S.P.S. (CH’AHOM)
The dead speak across the aeons through the eerily unconventional soundscapes of ‘Knots of Abhorrence’, the immersive and timeless debut
Read more
“BLACK METAL SHOULD BE MISANTHROPIC, DANGEROUS AND MYSTERIOUS” – G. (GOATKRAFT)
Contemptuously channelling to devastating effect the infernal majesty and Satanic might of unrestrained Bestial Black Metal misanthropy, Goatkraft’s hideously-blasphemous, death-worshipping,
Read more
“THEY WILL CUT DOWN EVERY TREE, KILL EVERY FREE ANIMAL AND DESTROY THEIR HABITAT, POISON THE ENVIRONMENT, BUT NOBODY BLINKS AN EYE” – JOSEPH DEEGAN (SLIDHR)
The unelected architects of chaos have inadvertently inspired a masterwork of Black Metal protestation and resistance that resiliently, resolutely reflects
Read more
BLUT AUS NORD – DISHARMONIUM – NAHAB LP (Debemur Morti Productions)
For most of its nigh on 30 years of existence, Blut aus Nord has followed its own path – one
Read more
SLIDHR – WHITE HART! (Debemur Morti Productions)
The trademark anger, indignation and misanthropic disillusionment that characterises J. Deegan’s musical vision is more palpable and pronounced than ever
Read more
“IF AN ADVERSARIAL OR OCCULT CURRENT IS NOT PRESENT WITHIN THE WILL OF A BAND, I AM NOT SURE WHY THEY ARE CREATING BLACK METAL” – AZGORH (DROWNING THE LIGHT)
Faithfully following the crooked path for twenty fallen years, Drowning the Light has defiantly and independently crafted a teeming tome
Read more
“THIS THING IS DEFINITELY EVIL AND PART OF THAT COMES FROM THE CLARITY OF THE RIFFS” – PAUL LEDNEY (PROFANATICA)
The ungodly symmetry and inverted irony of Profanatica’s saviour-impaling new full-length ‘Crux Simplex’ – a suitably sadistic and scorn-fuelled musical
Read more
URFAUST – UNTERGANG (Ván Records)
After 20 years of ritualistic intoxication, Urfaust in no more. The inebriated Dutch duo have unexpectedly called time with seventh
Read more
DROWNING THE LIGHT – VIOLET MERCURY & MOONLIGHT SORCERY EP (Dark Adversary Productions)
Channelled most conspicuously under the infamous Drowning the Light banner, Azgorh’s dedication / contribution to true underground Black Metal across
Read more
DIABOLICAL FULLMOON – RESURRECTION OF THE ANCIENT FAITH (UNHOLY REBORN POLISH BLACK METAL ART) LP (Signal Rex)
Thirty years on from the sacred seal of the infamous Temple of Fullmoon, the belligerent, intolerant howl of Poland’s pagan
Read more
“THE FACT THAT SOMETHING LIVES ONLY FOR A LIMITED TIME VASTLY INCREASES THE VALUE OF THAT TIME” – KARAPAN DARVISH (DAKHMA)
Shrouded in ancient Persian mysticism, the singular Death Metal of Dakhma soared to new heights of celestial obscurity on second
Read more
CH’AHOM – CAMAZOTZ CULT (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
In these tedious, tiresome times of seemingly-endless, same-sounding, mundane, derivative mediocrity, authentic obscurity has become the Holy Grail. Who can
Read more