BLACK CILICE – A CORPSE, A TEMPLE LP (Discipline)
Previous exposure to Black Cilice was zero so this represented a journey into the (relatively) unknown. Hardly a leap of
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FLAGELLUM DEI – ORDER OF THE OBSCURE (Pestilence Records)
I’ve never been to Portugal but I believe it to be a sunny territory – you wouldn’t think so from
Read moreSALE FREUX – LA MELANCOLIE DES PENNES (Selbstmord Kommando Produktionen)
Clocking in at 44 minutes approximately and taking up one side of a pro-tape, ‘La Mélancolie des Pennes’ is the
Read moreTHRONE OF KATARSIS – VED GRAVEN (Candlelight Records)
[A review of this release would have appeared here if a) Candlelight’s CDs weren’t so disgracefully overpriced and b) their
Read moreCRAFT – VOID 2LP (Southern Lord Recordings)
The European vinyl edition of the latest Craft album was handled by Trust No One Records and disappeared again as
Read moreHUMUS – ART NOIR CLANDESTIN (Selbstmord Kommando Produktionen)
Sale Freux mainman Dunkel (vocals, bass, guitar) joins forces with drummer Èclat Cadavéreux to form Humus, a band similar to
Read moreFELL VOICES – DEMO LP (Analog Worship)
Regular readers of this website (i.e. myself and that American prick who keeps sending me hate mail) will know I
Read moreAZAGHAL – NEMESIS (Moribund Records)
“Nemesis” will be the ninth studio album from the Finnish Azaghal and I have to say all the material I’m
Read moreATRA – IN REVERENCE OF DECAY LP (Final Agony Records)
Atra is a one-man vehicle steered by aptly-named former Drowning The Light ghoul Blackheart, whose second thoroughly-underground full-length has been
Read moreLEVIATHAN – TRUE TRAITOR, TRUE WHORE (Profound Lore Records)
I have never been disappointed by a Leviathan album. Without exception, Wrest’s output under this moniker has been consistently brilliant.
Read moreEVILFEAST – WINTERMOON ENCHANTMENT (Nykta)
Five sprawling tracks of atmospheric Black Metal and three enjoyable instrumentals combine to deliver almost 70 minutes of intriguing stuff.
Read moreDUSK – BOOK OF SATAN (Satanic Propaganda Productions)
‘Book Of Satan’ is interesting because it manages to be unconventional without straying too far from the boundaries of what
Read moreFAMINE – FAMINE LP (Worthless Endeavors)
This one arrives from way beyond, from totally off the radar, leaving me transfixed. Quite simply, ‘Famine’ has to be
Read moreANKOU AWAITS – LEBOR GABALA ERENN (Black Metal Underground)
‘Lebor Gabala Erenn’ proves that you don’t have to be a virtuoso musician to produce compelling music. In Black Metal,
Read moreWOODS OF INFINITY – FORLAT (Obscure Abhorrence Productions)
If Woods of Infinity serves any meaningful purpose any more, then I am at a loss to identify it. Sometimes
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