ILDJARN / HATE FOREST – THOSE ONCE MIGHTY FALLEN 2LP (Osmose Productions)
This split album comes as a welcome surprise. Both these acts have ceased to be, so the excavation of lost
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GORGUTS – COLORED SANDS 2LP (Season Of Mist)
Wow! Holy fuck! Christ on a cross! Shit on a stick! What an unexpected surprise this is. Somewhere in a
Read moreINCURSUS – ADAESTUO MLP (Forever Plagued Records)
‘Adaestuo’ is only 21 minutes long but it still manages to convey emphatically just how exceptional an entity Incursus is.
Read moreNECROMASS – CALIX. UTERO. BABALON LP (Funeral Industries)
‘Calix. Utero. Babalon’ arrives a whopping 17 years after cult horde Necromass’ previous full-length, ‘Abyss Calls Life’ – but this
Read morePROSANCTUS INFERI – NOCTAMBULOUS JAWS WITHIN SEMPITERNAL NIGHT LP (Nuclear War Now!)
I purchased ‘Noctambulous Jaws Within Sempiternal Night’ with a confidence bordering on arrogance. Having read some great things about Prosanctus
Read moreWOLVSERPENT – PERIGAEA ANTAHKARANA 2LP (Relapse Records)
I’ve discovered that the so-called biggest shop in the world stocks vinyl releases from Relapse. This is valuable information as
Read moreCHRISTICIDE – UPHEAVAL OF THE SOUL LP (Of Crawling Shadows)
Here is proof that initial impressions are not always correct / reliable. My first thought regarding Christicide was ‘what a
Read moreTEMPLE NIGHTSIDE – CONDEMNATION LP (Nuclear Winter Records / Dark Descent Records)
Considering that Temple Nightside mastermind IV is the self-same entity behind such stellar BlackMetalReviews-endorsed forces as Ill Omen and Perdition
Read moreACHERONTAS – AMENTI 2LP (World Terror Committee)
Presented in a luxurious gatefold jacket and boasting a fuck-off booklet that’s almost the equivalent of a novel (astonishing attention
Read moreBEHEXEN – RITUALE SATANUM (Debemur Morti Productions)
DMP re-released ‘Rituale Satanum’ in digipak format a good few months back and, even though I really love Behexen’s work,
Read moreGRAVE UPHEAVAL – UNTITLED 2LP (Nuclear War Now!)
Grave Upheaval play just the kind of Death Metal I love – primitive, cavernous, lo-fi, frightening – like a slower
Read moreHERETIC CULT REDEEMER – HERETIC CULT REDEEMER LP (Iron Bonehead Productions)
I took a leap of faith with this one and purchased the record without having exposed myself to any of
Read moreARCANUS TENEBRAE – ODIUM IN HOMINES LP (Drakkar Productions)
When ‘Odium In Homines’ was originally released on CD format five years ago, I snapped it up and fell in
Read moreGORRCH – GORRCH (Schattenkult Produktionen)
Featuring Chimsicrin from Chelmno (a band I need to listen to properly), Gorrch is a new Dolomitic Black Metal duo
Read moreTHE RUINS OF BEVERAST – BLOOD VAULTS – THE BLAZING GOSPEL OF HEINRICH KRAMER 2LP (Ván Records)
‘Blood Vaults – The Blazing Gospel of Heinrich Kramer’ isn’t so much a new album as a seismic event. I
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