PRECAMBRIAN – TECTONICS (Primitive Reaction)
It’s a given that any release spearheaded by Roman Saenko – the creative force behind Drudkh, Rattenfänger, Blood Of Kingu,
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Black Metal Reviews
ABHOMINE – PROSELYTE PARASITE PLAGUE LP (Osmose Productions / Hells Headbangers Records)
Veteran wreckers Pete Helmkamp and Cazz Grant condense an unmerciful barrage of violence into 23 minutes on Abhomine’s brief but
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GRIFTESKYMFNING – SVART MATERIA LP (Darker Than Black Records)
After nigh on a decade of suitably mysterious silence, Grifteskymfning returned this year with not one but two new albums:
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SERPENT CREST – RITUAL EUTHANASIA LP (New Era Productions)
From the deepest crevices of the underground, Dutch trio Serpent Crest puke out some weird, uncompromising, primitive, raw Black Metal
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BLACK ALTAR / KIRKEBRANN – DEUS INVERSUS (Odium Records)
Fighting the bad fight for over two decades, Black Altar tend to fly under the hype radar and are certainly
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DESPONDENT MOON – INVOKING THE FREEZING MIST LP (His Wounds)
Channelled by Deorc Weg, Despondent Moon is a one-man entity from the United Kingdom that – perhaps taking inspiration from
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ARMNATT – DENSE FOG LP (Signal Rex)
‘Dense Fog’, the second full-length from Armnatt, is a short, sharp shock of direct, undiluted, straight-to-the-point raw Black Metal, inherently
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AVERSIO HUMANITATIS – BEHOLD THE SILENT DWELLERS (Debemur Morti Productions)
Having spent the best part of a decade sharpening their weaponry, honing their craft, fine-tuning their attack, building a head
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NYOGTHAEBLISZ – ABRAHAMIC GODHEAD BESIEGED BY ADVERSARIAL USURPATION LP (Hells Headbangers Records)
It doesn’t happen too often, but sometimes when I’m listening to a record I begin to wonder am I deluding
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MEDICO PESTE- ב: THE BLACK BILE LP (Season of Mist Underground Activists)
Eight years had passed since Medico Peste’s fascinating debut full-length, ‘א: Tremendum Et Fascinatio’, so the follow-up album was certainly
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BORDA’S ROPE / GEHEIMNISVOLL – BORDA’S ROPE / GEHEIMNISVOLL LP (Black Gangrene Productions)
There’s almost 34 minutes of music on this superb split LP which – in the best tradition of raw Black
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BLACK FUNERAL – SCOURGE OF LAMASHTU (Iron Bonehead Productions)
For any musician attempting to create an album that is bleak, malevolent and / or unsettling, conjuring the precise atmosphere
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FIDES INVERSA – HISTORIA NOCTURNA (World Terror Committee)
Judging by the sheer depth and magnitude of the unadulterated immorality permeating every fibre of Fides Inversa’s third full-length, ‘Historia
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CAULDRON BLACK RAM – SLAVER (20 Buck Spin)
There’s plenty of intrigue and enjoyment to be found in Cauldron Black Ram’s fourth full-length, ‘Slaver’, which is sure to
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HUMAN AGONY – PUTRESCENCE OF CALVARY LP (Invictus Productions / Final Agony Records)
Here’s half an hour of hellish bestial blasphemy to make your fucked-up day and life a little more bearable. Towards
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