WHITE MEDAL – LYKE WAKE LP (Darker Than Black Records / Legion Blotan Records & Distribution)
White Medal’s second full-length, ‘Lyke Wake’, is really fantastic from start to finish. George Proctor has been responsible for some
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RIDE FOR REVENGE – THY HORRENDOUS YEARNING LP (Hells Headbangers Records)
Ride For Revenge’s uncanny and welcome ability to consistently conjure some the most demented, unique and twisted Black Metal known
Read moreTHE OMINOUS CIRCLE – APPALLING ASCENSION 2LP (Osmose Productions)
Another new band concealing their identities by covering their faces in Mgła-style masks (as if anybody actually cares who they
Read moreTHRONEUM – MORBID DEATH TALES LP (Hells Headbangers Records)
‘Morbid Death Tales’ is the seventh full-length from primitive Polish Death Metal duo Throneum and, even though it only emerged
Read moreKÊRES – BOOK OF DESIRE LP (Kuunpalvelus)
Even by Black Metal standards, Kêres is anomalous and difficult to fathom. Great music but for whatever reason he’s reluctant
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CLANDESTINE BLAZE – CITY OF SLAUGHTER LP (Northern Heritage Records)
Clandestine Blaze is one of the most enduring, essential and downright awesome entities in Black Metal and has consistently delivered
Read moreTEITANBLOOD – ACCURSED SKIN MLP (Norma Evangelium Diaboli / The Ajna Offensive)
‘Accursed Skin’ is a 26-minute-long, 45rpm MLP featuring one new song – the title track – paired with ‘Sanctified Dysecdysis’,
Read moreDIABOLI – WIKING DIVISION LP (Northern Heritage)
This record is about a year old already but I’ve only just recently added it to my collection. I’d been
Read moreUŠKUMGALLU – ROTTEN LIMBS IN DREAMS OF BLOOD LP (Vrasubatlat)
Uškumgallu’s debut full-length, ‘Rotten Limbs In Dreams Of Blood’, is a twisted, depraved slab of sinister, primitive Black / Death
Read moreBLOOD TYRANT – NIGHT OF BLOOD MOON LP (Skjold)
This is Blood Tyrant’s eight-song 2016 demo reissued on vinyl (plus one bonus track). As is often the case with
Read moreBLACK CILICE – BANISHED FROM TIME LP (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Every new Black Cilice record represents a truly seismic event in my living room and ‘Banished From Time’ is no
Read moreDEATHSPELL OMEGA – THE SYNARCHY OF MOLTEN BONES LP (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
I’m not sure exactly what criteria Deathspell Omega deploy to determine which of their releases qualify as full-lengths and which
Read moreFATHERLAND – FATHERLAND LP (No Sign Of Life Records)
To an extent, I think that Fatherland might be better served by channeling a larger percentage of their red-hot hate
Read moreOSTOTS – EZER EZAREN ARAZTASUNA LP (Altare Productions / Skjold)
‘Ezer Ezaren Araztasuna’ – another Ostots album title that I will never utter. I used Google Translate to find out
Read moreTURIA – DOR LP (Altare Productions)
The accompanying brouhaha was conspicuous by its absence when Turia unleashed their debut full-length last year but that doesn’t really
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