AMNUTSEBA – EMANATISM LP (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Dwelling decrepitly, surreptitiously within the hazy twilight betwixt Death Metal and Black Metal, Amnutseba are not in any immediate danger
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VORTEX OF END – ARDENS FVROR 2LP (Osmose Productions)
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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ARMAGEDDA – OND SPIRITISM: DJÆFVVLENS SKALDER ANNO SERPENTI MMIV LP (Nordvis Produktion)
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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SULPHURIC NIGHT – ARCANE MONOLITHS OF TRIUMPHANT DEATH 2LP (Altare Productions / Black Gangrene Productions)
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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ENTHRONED – COLD BLACK SUNS LP (Season Of Mist)
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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MISÞYRMING – ALGLEYMI LP (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
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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RIDE FOR REVENGE – SINKING THE SONG LP (Bestial Burst / Final Agony Records)
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 – GODS WITHOUT NAME LP (Debemur Morti Productions)
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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ALTARAGE – ENDINGHENT LP (Season Of Mist Underground Activists)
‘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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FLOODED CHURCH OF ASMODEUS – PISS SOAKED CHURCH OF THE WRONG: A TOTAL HOLOCAUST OF THOSE WHO TURN THE OTHER CHEEK LP (Final Agony Records)
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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ALTARAGE – THE APPROACHING ROAR LP (Season of Mist Underground Activists)
Mutating, strengthening, conquering, like some rogue artificial intelligence or insatiable, unstoppable bacteria, the clone more potent and dangerous than the
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DEGREDO – A NOITE DOS TEMPOS 2LP (Harvest Of Death)
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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CLANDESTINE BLAZE – TRANQUILITY OF DEATH LP (Northern Heritage Records)
As Clandestine Blaze’s tenth full-length offering, ‘Tranquility Of Death’, erupts from the barrel, wretched humanity is once more the focus,
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AKITSA – CREDO LP (Hospital Productions)
Akitsa’s wretched, raw, inimitable, punk-infused and wholly emotional take on Black Metal has been an irresistible force in the underground
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HATESPIRIT – AGELESS WILDERNESS LP (Altare Productions)
Across their potent and pungent second full-length, ‘Ageless Wilderness’, Hatespirit invite us to imbibe the intoxicating splendour of Finland’s flawless,
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