Exactly eleven years on from the tragic, untimely demise of peerless Celestial Bloodshed frontman Steingrim Torson, I find myself revisiting
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Condensing, distilling the frigid, frozen, barren landscape of their homeland into an epic, lush six-track, 52-minute album, Carpe Noctem proved
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Ferocious vocals are one of the trusted staples of extreme music – or at least should be. The best Death
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Dwelling decrepitly, surreptitiously within the hazy twilight betwixt Death Metal and Black Metal, Amnutseba are not in any immediate danger
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Released last summer, when the world was still full of hope and wonder, Vortex of End’s third full-length offering is
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Short-lived but highly significant Swedish Black Metal duo Armagedda treated the freefalling world to three landmark full-lengths in successive years
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In conspiracy with other high-quality composites such as Void Prayer, Niteris and of course Obskuritatem, Sulphuric Night is part of
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Nobody in Black Metal flies under the radar quite as majestically, appropriately and inconspicuously as Belgium’s long-serving, oft-reinvented light-crushing battalion
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As one of the highest peaks of Icelandic Black Metal, Misþyrming’s stellar debut album ‘Söngvar Elds Og Óreiðu’ was always
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Returning with equal parts trepidation and anticipation to the weird, warped and wacky world of Harald Mentor to explore Ride
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Aoratos – the latest fully-formed, bastard protuberance from that ghastly Nightbringer organism, the foul, ugly, crippled half-brother of Akhlys and
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‘Nihl’ boldly announced the arrival of Altarage as a potent force and its follow-up, ‘Endinghent’, was another remarkable record from
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Filthy, diseased black noise with Harald Mentor’s grubby fingerprints and carefree whiskey stains all over it, like incriminating, irrefutable evidence
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Mutating, strengthening, conquering, like some rogue artificial intelligence or insatiable, unstoppable bacteria, the clone more potent and dangerous than the
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From some otherworldly purgatory of insufferable misery arrives Degredo’s tortured, tormented, soul-wrenching debut volume of vexed verses and cursed canticles,
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