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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Black Metal Reviews
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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VERMISST – ZMIERZCH STALOWEJ CIEMNOŚCI LP (Signal Rex)
Bolstered by the inclusion of three outstanding bonus tracks on Side B, which bring proceedings boldly into full-length territory at
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VOID PRAYER – THE GRANDIOSE RETURN TO THE VOID LP (Black Gangrene Productions / Altare Productions)
For the countless webzines that are out there – with new ones popping up every week – purporting to promote
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STRIGES – VERUM VETERUM (Blut & Eisen Productions)
It came from nowhere and it’s wholly apt that Striges’ debut full-length should arrive like a bolt from the black
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HORNA – KUOLEMAN KIRJO (World Terror Committee)
Brandishing the black flame for more than a quarter of a century, Horna are firmly established as one of the
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