CARVED CROSS – CARVED CROSS LP (Overuse)
Sharing a member with Forbidden Citadel of Spirits, Carved Cross is another raw Black Metal entity from the never-to-be-visited-by me
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THE RUINS OF BEVERAST – TAKITUM TOOTEM! EP (Ván Records)
At shy of 21 minutes, ‘Takitum Tootem!’ lasts about as long as a good shit but it’s still a very
Read moreANTAEUS – CONDEMNATION LP (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
A full decade on from ‘Blood Libels’, I had subconsciously given up on ever hearing another Antaeus full-length. Thus, it
Read moreARRIA PAETUS – ARRIA PAETUS (Lycaean Triune)
Emerging from the darkness, despair and desolation of Alaska, Arria Paetus spew forth their self-titled debut full-length and it’s immediately
Read moreORATION MMXVII – HÚRRA, REYKJAVÍK, ICELAND (February 16-18, 2017)
Eighteen bands took to the stage at Húrra in Reykjavík over the course of three dark nights in February, 2017
Read moreSPIRE – ENTROPY LP (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Spire’s debut album features six intriguing offerings of doomy, ambient Black Metal ranging in length from three to 14 minutes.
Read moreBLOOD TYRANT – ARISTOCRACY OF TWILIGHT LP (Iron Bonehead Productions)
I’m not sure how twilight can qualify as being aristocratic but anyhow Blood Tyrant’s debut full-length is worthy of close
Read moreWHITE DEATH – WHITE DEATH LP (Werewolf Records)
For the most part, this is extremely nasty stuff. Vritrahn’s vocals are particularly venomous and the album is blistering and
Read moreMIZMOR – YODH 2LP (Gilead Media)
Weighing in a minute and a half beyond the hour mark, Mizmor’s sprawling second full-length, ‘Yodh’, is a crushing, monstrous
Read moreJASSA – LIGHTS IN THE HOWLING WILDERNESS LP (Fallen Empire Records / Amor Fati Productions)
If, like me, you bemoan the tragic, premature demise of Hate Forest then you could do worse than checking out
Read moreYSENGRIN / SARTEGOS – RESVRREZIONESPIRITVAL LP (I, Voidhanger Records)
Sincerely hope I spelt that correctly. Ysengrin is now halfway through a quadrilogy of split releases, which to date have
Read moreVOID MEDITATION CULT – UTTER THE TONGUE OF THE DEAD LP (Hells Headbangers Records)
Fulfilling the abundant promise hinted at by ‘Sulfurous Prayers Of Blight And Darkness’, Void Meditation Cult’s debut full-length is a
Read moreRECLUSE – STILLBIRTH IN BETHLEHEM LP (Darker Than Black Records)
This is astonishingly great. Nasty, dirty, disorientating music complemented by twisted, possessed vocals that could have been recorded in an
Read moreNAHTRUNAR – EXISTENZ LP (Altare Productions / Arcane Angels)
‘Existenz’ arrived from Portugal in a timely fashion and I removed it from the mailer, sniffed it and then reached
Read moreMOON – MELEK TAUS 2LP (Skjold)
‘Melek Taus’ collates a slew of demos and EPs recorded by antipodean wraiths Moon during the course of 2008. It
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