GRAND BELIAL’S KEY – KOHANIC CHARMERS LP (Weltenfeind)
Typically brilliantly monikered, ‘Prayer Shawl of the First Born Donkey’ provides a suitably supreme opening to the first Grand Belial’s
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HETROERTZEN – PHOSPHORUS VOL I (Listenable Records)
The crypt reopens and the vampires of Hetroertzen re-merge with a profane decade of new perversions, feasting upon the fruit
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FUNERAL HARVEST – REDEMPTIO (Signal Rex)
The inimitable Wraath lends his decidedly-demonic voice to ‘Fire Sermon’, ‘Principum et Finis’ and ‘The Crimson Night Tide’, and his
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NOCTURNAL SORCERY – THE HOLY LAW IN TOTAL RUIN (Kvlt)
The ever-fertile and -filthy Finnish soil yields another foul blackened crop in the form of ‘The Holy Law in Total
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CULTES DES GHOULES – HENBANE 2LP (Hells Headbangers)
The relentless march of time can be either cruel or kind to music. In the case of Cultes Des Ghoules’
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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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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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