“WHAT WE DO IS MORE AKIN TO A SERMON OF FIERY PRAISE AT THE MOUNTAIN OF MADNESS” – E (MALAKHIM)
Not alone antichristened with one of the most powerful, evocative and memorable album titles in the storied history of Black
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Interviews
“EVEN THOUGH THE WORLD IS NOW OVERCROWDED, WE CAN STILL CHOOSE WHERE TO FIND INSPIRATION” – CHELMNO
As Dolomitic Black Metal standard-bearers Chelmno break a decade-and-a-half-long silence with their third full-length offering from the pale mountains, ‘Decadence
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“SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO BE DESTROYED TO COME BACK STRONGER AND BETTER” – LEPIDUS PLAGUE (KOMMODUS)
Consummately-crafted and expertly-executed third Kommodus full-length ‘A Foetal Wolf in Stained Glass’ showcases a dynamic, accomplished and utterly unorthodox underground
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“WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, YOU ARE ALWAYS ALONE IN A CERTAIN WAY” – SCHNEE (ARA)
Born from prolonged bouts of solitude, ARA is an obscure and intriguing novel entity that dares to be different and
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“SOUND, WORD AND WILL CONVERGE AS ONE ACT OF INVOCATION, EACH COMPOSITION A MIRROR TURNED INWARD UNTIL IT REFLECTS WHAT LIES BEYOND” – ZD (LVTHN)
Nine years on from their debut full-length descent, the serpentine seducers of LVTHN return, ablaze with adversarial intent, inviting, nay
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“IT’S VERY DIFFICULT TO PENETRATE THE 3D-BUBBLE INTO REALITY SINCE THERE’S A CONSTANT WAR BEING WAGED AGAINST HUMANITY TO KEEP US DUMBED DOWN WITH INDOCTRINATION, CHEMICALS AND LIES” – STEFAN SANDSTRÖM (LIK / EHLDER / Armagedda)
As tormented and prodigiously-gifted young upstart Graav, he was in a former life pivotal to one of Black Metal’s most
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“WITH THE CONSTANT ASSAULT OF THE MODERN WORLD AND ITS EVER-SHIFTING GOALPOSTS, IT FEELS AS THOUGH WE CAN’T MAKE HEAD NOR TAIL OF OUR EXISTENCE BUT IT’S ENJOYABLE IN ITS ABSURDITY, SO WHY NOT? I’M NOT DOING ANYTHING ELSE…” – MB (MALTHUSIAN)
Existential dread abounds across Malthusian’s deathly-dark and deeply-unsettling second full-length invocation, ‘The Summoning Bell’ – a depraved and delirious Death
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“THE REAL WORLD IS DARK ENOUGH, GRIM ENOUGH, AND TWISTED ENOUGH TO SATISFY OUR MORBID DESIRES WITH RELATIVE EASE” – DANIEL ROSTÉN (MARDUK)
Has it dawned on you yet? Have you begun to grasp that life is not a clock, but an hourglass?
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“THIS RECORD WAS BUILT LIKE AN ANCIENT TEMPLE OF DEVOTED WORSHIP: THROUGH SHEER PATIENCE, PERSEVERANCE, AND PROSELYTISM OF THE HIGHEST ORDER” – SADISTIK FORNICATOR (NECROMANIAC)
NECROMANIAC is the living dying embodiment of a band that does things its own way and unapologetically exhibits its heart
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“DARKNESS ALLOWS YOU TO EXPERIENCE THINGS COMPLETELY DIFFERENTLY” – A. (CHAOS INVOCATION)
For 21 sacrificial years and counting, Chaos Invocation’s singular, spellbinding strain of adversarial Black Metal art has been presented venerably
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“AD HOMINEM STANDS AGAINST EVERYTHING THAT CORRUPTS THE STRENGTH AND DIGNITY OF MAN” – KAISER WODHANAZ
Whenever or wherever it was decreed that Black Metal should henceforth be safe, woke and tolerant of all, Kaiser Wodhanaz
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“IT IS EVIDENT THAT THE IDEOLOGIES THAT HAVE PREVAILED IN RECENT TIMES, FROM THE WORLD OF INFORMATION TO ACADEMIA, ARE IMBUED WITH AN OBSCURANTISM AND DOGMATISM THAT ARE ESSENTIALLY ANTI-HUMAN” – VOID A.D. (FIDES INVERSA)
As a captured world takes leave at an ever-accelerating rate of its senses and we descend deeper into an inverted
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“THROUGH THIS ABYSSAL WAY AND CLAMBERING BACK OUT, DO YOU REACH THE REAL MOUNTAINTOP AND ACTUALLY SEE WHAT IS ON THE OTHER SIDE?” – SHAWN HACHÉ (MITOCHONDRION)
Twelve tortuous years of trial, toil and tribulation gave rise through torment to Mitochondrion’s Great Work, ‘VITRISEPTOME’ – a metastasizing,
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“IT EMERGES ORGANICALLY DURING PROLONGED GUITAR STRUMMING SESSIONS, WHERE IT FEELS LIKE I’M TAPPING INTO A PRIMORDIAL FORCE AND LETTING THE MELODIC SPIRITS THAT ARISE TAKE OVER” – EL INVUNCHE
From the past comes the storms of Invunche, whose ceremonial second full-length ‘Atavismo’ challenges conventional methodologies to conjure across time
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“BLACK METAL AS WE APPRECIATE IT STILL LIVES ON AND WILL NEVER BE AFFECTED BY MODERN ANTICS” – AVSKRÄDE
Heeding the ancient call of the cold northern plains of their homeland, AVSKRÄDE evoke the true adversarial spirit of old
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