COLD EARTH – YOUR MISERY, MY TRIUMPH LP (Sol Records)
Comprising four-fifths of Thorybos (all of whom are also active in numerous other Sol Records cabals) , Cold Earth was
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MYSTRUIN – CALCINATION (Lamech Records)
Building on the promise demonstrated on their debut full-length, ‘Gånget Äro Ljuset’, six years hitherto, mystical Swedish quintet Mystruin deliver
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“THE MANY HARDSHIPS CONSPIRING AGAINST US HAVE ONLY MADE US HUNGRIER AND MORE FURIOUS” – ACERBUS (ONDSKAPT)
At the grim denouement of an utterly repugnant calendar year that saw mankind cast for perpetuity into all-consuming darkness, it
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VOIDSPHERE – TO SENSE | TO PERCEIVE LP (Amor Fati Productions)
A new consignment of ПРАВА КОЛЛЕКТИВ releases has been conjured from the interstellar ether and, while I enjoy all the
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INQUISITION – BLACK MASS FOR A BLACK GRAVE (Agonia Records)
‘Black Mass For A Mass Grave’ is a surprise on multiple levels. First of all, I presumed Inquisition had ceased
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MARE – SPHERES LIKE DEATH / THRONE OF THE THIRTEENTH WITCH LP (Terratur Possessions)
An essential document for those who cherish ritualistic, occult Black Metal, this release collates the two iconic, trailblazing EPs which
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SVARTSYN – REQUIEM (Carnal Records)
With nary a glimmer of light nor salvation, Svartsyn’s harrowing and unholy tenth full-length, ‘Requiem’, unceremoniously flings open the floodgates
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ONDSKAPT – GRIMOIRE ORDO DEVUS (Osmose Productions)
A wicked, malevolent prelude introduces the fourth Ondskapt curse before ‘Semita Sinistram’ guides us contemptuously towards the left-hand path and
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OMINOUS RESURRECTION – JUDGEMENT LP (Terratur Possessions)
Having enjoyed Ominous Resurrection’s 2014 debut full-length, ‘Omniscient’, albeit without quite being blown away, I had sort of forgotten about
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AKHLYS – MELINOË (Debemur Morti Productions)
The disorientating, debilitating nightmare resumes five years on as Akhlys returns with third full-length ‘Melinoë’, a terrifyingly lucid and lurid
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SATANIZE – BAPHOMET ALTAR WORSHIP (Helter Skelter Productions)
They may have migrated onto a new label but precious little else has changed in the Satanize camp. Sonically, the
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INTHYFLESH – CRAWL BENEATH OUR SHADOW LP (Drakkar Productions)
Beginning with the venomous, contemptuous ‘Worship Darkness Rising’, Inthyflesh pour scorn and ridicule on religion (“all meaningless creeds”) and celebrate
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THY FUNERAL – THE END OF LIFE (Subterranean Aftersounds / Total Därkness Propaganda)
This long-since defunct Hungarian one-man entity is about as obscure and underground as they come. Recorded some 15 years ago,
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PAGAN HELLFIRE – AT THE RESTING DEPTHS ETERNAL LP (Tour De Garde)
A couple of years have passed already since Pagan Hellfire’s majestic sixth and most-recent full-length, ‘At The Resting Depths Eternal’,
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OLDOWAN GASH – HUBRIS UNCHAINED LP (Drakkar Productions)
Packed with pride, passion, defiance and contempt aimed towards pitiful, weak humanity (“specks who defile the land, a wretched disease”),
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