DEATHSPELL OMEGA – THE LONG DEFEAT LP (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
The third era of Deathspell Omega commences with ‘The Long Defeat’, which contains a curveball or ten and is a
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Black Metal Reviews
BLOOD CHALICE – THE BLASPHEMOUS PSALMS OF CANNIBALISM (Werewolf Records)
Packed to the bursting brim with copious overflows of ferocious, uncompromising Black / Death, Blood Chalice’s second full-length, ‘The Blasphemous
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MARE – EBONY TOWER LP (Terratur Possessions)
There is a reason why – despite decidedly limited studio activity during their nigh-on-20-years of existence – Mare is one
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NEGATIVE PLANE – THE PACT (Invictus Productions / The Ajna Offensive)
How many contemporary Black Metal acts are there who have successfully forged their own distinctive sound whist remaining relevant (i.e.,
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MORTUUS – DIABLERIE (World Terror Committee)
The way Black Metal has been stagnating, frustrating and infuriating in recent times, it was almost with a sense of
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BOG BODY – CRYONIC CREVASSE CULT (Profound Lore Records)
The uncannily skilful deployment of bass, drums and vocals alone lends Bog Body’s music a disturbing, organic sense of decay
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HELL MILITIA – HOLLOW VOID (Season of Mist Underground Activists)
Despite a significant overhaul in personnel and a silence that lasted a decade, Hell Militia returns with a fourth full-length
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DEMONIC TEMPLE – THROUGH THE STARS AND INTO THE ABYSS (Putrid Cult / Dark Horizon Records)
After the suitably ominous cosmic terror of the brief but unsettling intro that is ‘Nox’, the third Demonic Temple full-length
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MALTHUSIAN / SUFFERING HOUR – TIME’S WITHERING SHADOW (Invictus Productions)
Opening atrocity ‘Dissolution of Consciousness’ is a suitably seething maelstrom of chaos and carnage from Ireland’s heaving heavyweights of unrestrained
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DARVAZA – ASCENDING INTO PERDITION LP (Terratur Possessions)
Already a proven staple of the Black Metal underground on the strength of their incendiary live performances and stellar mini
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AKERBELTZ – MERCILESS (BlackSeed Productions)
Longstanding Catalonian one-man act Akerbeltz hit a career high with sixth full-length, ‘Satànic’, which was released in 2017, and now,
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DAKHMA – BLESSINGS OF AMURDAD (Eisenwald)
In these characterless, vanilla times of repetitive, weak, monotonous cultural tedium, it has become painfully difficult to find artists of
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NORTHERN – CABIN FEVER (Sinistrari Records)
A continuation of cult USBM act Cold Northern Vengeance, NortherN emerges from the frigid, barren outpost of New Hampshire –
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BLUTUMHANG – THE FIRES OF DOMINATION (Nithstang Productions)
At last there’s something exciting stirring once more in the deepest, darkest recesses of the underground and how pertinent that
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VALAC – BURNING DAWN OF VENGEANCE LP (Black Gangrene Productions / Banner of Blood)
Channelling the singular vision of one individual and executed with class and feeling, Valac’s second full-length offering, ‘Burning Dawn of
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