NOENUM – HERESIARCH (Northern Heritage Records)
Noenum delivers a delirious dose of glorious, majestic, arcane Black Metal mercury on debut full-length, ‘Heresiarch’. What the Finnish duo
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Author: Bornosin
HATE FOREST – INNERMOST (Osmose Productions)
Hate Forest is an institution in itself and each new release from Black Metal’s most notorious history teacher constitutes an
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BLACK DEATH CULT – DIASPORA LP (Profound Lore Records)
Black / Death Metal doesn’t get much more surreal and out there than Black Death Cult’s frankly deranged second fantastical
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MISÞYRMING – MEÐ HAMRI (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
Contemplating the essence and linearity or otherwise of the glass-ceiling-breaking third Misþyrming full-length ‘Með hamri’, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr’s oft-quoted observation
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“THE HOPES OF YOUTH HAVE BEEN DROWNED IN THE TEDIOUS, DISCOURAGING AND UNSURPRISING EVOLUTION OF HUMAN LIVESTOCK” – OUTRE-TOMBE (AKITSA)
A score of spirit-sapping, soul-destroying years has passed since Outre-Tombe audaciously lit the touchpaper for Québécois Black Metal by issuing
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“SOME HAVE FEAR, OTHERS EMBRACE IT WHEN IT COMES, SOME ARE AT PEACE, SOME WILL PRAY FOR MORE TIME” – MkM (ANTAEUS)
Like some surreal viciously-pulsing severed artery of sonic excess, Antaeus sprayed forth from the gushing sewers of Paris a bloodletting
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“SINCE WHEN SHOULD BLACK METAL BE SMOOTH AND HARMLESS MUSIC, A ‘SAFE SPACE’ FOR WEAK PEOPLE?” – NOKTURN (AUTARCIE)
Evoking a uniquely rich cultural heritage by revisiting glorious bygone epochs from France’s illustrious history, Autarcie’s powerfully nostalgic and emotive
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“NOWADAYS IT SEEMS THAT EVERYTHING IS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN AND LIED ABOUT” – PETRI ILVESPAKKA (DIABOLI)
The living embodiment of an uncompromising underground artist, Petri Ilvespakka has been crafting authentic Black Metal art under the Diaboli
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“LIKE A STRIKE OF LIGHTNING, IT AWAKENED AND OPENED SOMETHING IN ME” – WRAATH (RITUAL DEATH)
Celebrating and evoking the inevitable fate that awaits us all, Ritual Death’s deliriously-decadent and predictably-self-titled debut full-length reeks of necromancy
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“BLACK METAL IS ABOUT SPIRITUAL LIBERATION FROM THE SHACKLES OF THE DEMIURGE” – SEMJAZA (THY DARKENED SHADE)
Profusing promethean fire, channelling chaos and advocating adversary in His name, inimitable initiates Thy Darkened Shade deliver epic, elevated third
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“I SEE ‘REDEMPTIO’ AS THE GREAT BEAST THAT ARISES ABOVE EVERYTHING WITH DIFFERENT VOICES AND FACES IN ONLY ONE FURY” – LORD NATHAS (FUNERAL HARVEST)
How apt in these days of spiritual destitution that Funeral Harvest should strike vengefully with debut full-length, ‘Redemptio’, swinging their
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“TO EXIST AMONG THESE MENDACIOUS MASSES IS THE REAL HELL” – GRÀNT (GRÀB)
Transfused with an importation of Ingvaeonic blood, Gràb returns from its temporary resting place in the silent, peaceful Bavarian grave
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“LIGHT IS THERE TO SHINE, BUT WITHOUT IMMENSE DARKNESS IT CANNOT BE SEEN” – DEACON D (HETROERTZEN)
All-consuming darkness permeates ‘Phosphorus Vol I’, the seventh full-length sacrament of Hetroertzen, wherein this mystical and mysterious vampiric coven also
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SATANIC WARMASTER / CLANDESTINE BLAZE – CLANDESTINE BLAZE / SATANIC WARMASTER LP (Northern Heritage Records)
Twenty years ago, Mikko Aspa and Werwolf joined forces to create one of the Black Metal underground’s truly great split
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THY DARKENED SHADE / AMESTIGON / INCONCESSUS LUX LUCIS / SHAARIMOTH – SAMAELILITH: A CONJUNCTION OF THE FIREBORN 2LP (World Terror Committee)
The cursed history of Black Metal is embellished with many outstanding examples of exceptional splits and the immense four-way collaboration
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