Interviews – Swallowed In Black

“IT WAS KIND OF ANNOYING THAT WE HAD THREE GREAT SHOWS AND THEN SUDDENLY EVERYTHING CLOSES DOWN” – FRED ESTBY (DISMEMBER)

Reborn in blasphemy, legendary Swedish Death Metal pioneers Dismember completed one of most-anticipated comebacks in extreme music history when taking

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“TO PERPETUATE THE HUMAN SEED IN EXISTENCE IS IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE MANKIND IS DOOMED TO FAIL … SOONER OR LATER IT WILL HAPPEN” – ALTARAGE

May 3, 2021May 3, 2021 Gerald Robinson Altarage, Succumb, Altarage interview

With ominously-titled, nightmare-inducing fourth full-length detonation, ‘Succumb’ – a violent expulsion of existential horror conceived of the mundane, weak and

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“HUMANS ARE JUST PHYSICAL BODIES … WE CANNOT BE SEPARATED INTO BODY AND SOUL” – TAKASHI TANAKA (ANATOMIA)

March 29, 2021March 29, 2021 Gerald Robinson Anatomia, Corporeal Torment, Anatomia interview

As Anatomia prepare to unleash their eagerly-anticipated, gore-drenched fourth full-length, ‘Corporeal Torment’, Takashi Tanaka (drums, vocals) discusses the inevitable approach

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“ALL THE WORSHIP OF DEATH AND PLAGUE, YET LITTLE HARDSHIPS AND SMALL OBSTACLES OF LIFE ARE MOURNED INTENSIVELY” – MIKKO ASPA (CLANDESTINE BLAZE)

March 11, 2021March 11, 2021 Gerald Robinson Clandestine Blaze, Clandestine Blaze interview, Mikko Aspa interview

Over the course of a single-minded, uncompromising descent into depravity spanning 23 years and counting, elevated by a refusal to

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“TIME WILL TELL IF MANKIND WILL FINALLY WAKE UP OR REMAIN THE LITTLE SISSY IT HAS BECOME” – NORNAGEST (ENTHRONED)

February 25, 2021February 25, 2021 Gerald Robinson Enthroned, Cold Black Suns, Enthroned interview, Nornagest interview

Thirteen months have passed since Satan’s loyal servants Enthroned brought His word to the masses through the medium of a

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“WE VIEW THE CONCEPT AS A HERMETIC BASTARD OF DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY, HORROR AND COSMOLOGY” – INFERNO

February 17, 2021February 17, 2021 Gerald Robinson Inferno, Inferno interview, Paradeigma (Phosphenes of Aphotic Eternity)

The ominous, otherworldly cosmological horror that is Inferno’s impending eighth full-length album, ‘Paradeigma (Phosphenes of Aphotic Eternity)’, looms ever larger

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“AFTER THE TRIBULATION, THERE WILL BE A NEW RULE” – ORNIAS (SVARTSYN)

February 16, 2021February 16, 2021 Gerald Robinson Svartsyn, Requiem, Svartsyn interview, Ornias, Ornias interview

As the fragile foundations of western civilisation crumble like chalk and society suffers an ignominious, irreversible collapse, under inexorable attack

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“THOSE WHO CLAIM TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING ARE JUST CHARLATANS WITH TOO BIG AN EGO AND SHOULD TAKE AN INJECTION OF DOUBT” – EKLEZJAS’TIK BERZERK [SEKTARISM)

February 12, 2021February 14, 2021 Gerald Robinson Sektarism, Sektarism interview

Projecting the most disturbing, redemptive resonances known to man, Sektarism’s corrupted, cathartic conjurations invoke a genuine sense of dread and

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“HERE, IN NORWAY, WE BARELY LOOK AT EACH OTHER WHEN WE MEET AND GREET” – KK (GJENDØD)

February 5, 2021February 5, 2021 Gerald Robinson Gjendød, Angrep, Gjendød interview

With the bludgeoning and bloodied attack that is ‘Angrep’, Gjendød have delivered their most uncompromising and hateful album to date.

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“IT’S NOT UNCOMMON THAT OUR SONGS ARE INSPIRED BY VARIOUS REAL LIFE ATROCITIES OR CERTAIN BRUTAL PARTS OF HORROR MOVIES OR COMICS” – DAVID TORTURDØD (UNDERGANG)

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Gerald Robinson Undergang, Aldrig I Livet, Undergang interview, David Torturdød interview

Never was a new Undergang album more welcome than ‘Aldrig I Livet’, the depraved Danes’ captivating fifth full-length regurgitation of

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“WHO WOULD LIKE TO LIVE WITH A THOUSAND EYES ON HIS BACK?” – DRASTUS

January 9, 2021January 9, 2021 Gerald Robinson Drastus, Venoms, Drastus interview

Flying contemptuously beneath the whoring, self-gratifying radar and wilfully shunning attention hasn’t prevented Drastus from producing some of the most

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“ALL BLOOD RITES ARE ALIGNED AND THE SACRIFICE FOR THE MASTER SHALL TAKE ITS RIGHTEOUS PLACE” – SATANIZE

December 19, 2020December 19, 2020 Gerald Robinson Satanize, Baphomet Altar Worship, Satanize interview, Reverend of Diabolical Services and Sinister Sorcery

On their Christ-crushing, goat-glorifying sixth full length, ‘Baphomet Altar Worship’, Portuguese duo Satanize elevate their trademark bestial and barbaric sonic

Black Metal Reviews Interviews

“THE MANY HARDSHIPS CONSPIRING AGAINST US HAVE ONLY MADE US HUNGRIER AND MORE FURIOUS” – ACERBUS (ONDSKAPT)

December 14, 2020December 14, 2020 Gerald Robinson Grimoire Ordo Devus, Ondskapt, Ondskapt interview, Acerbus, Acerbus interview

At the grim denouement of an utterly repugnant calendar year that saw mankind cast for perpetuity into all-consuming darkness, it

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“MOST HUMANS ARE WORTHLESS FLESH ZOMBIES CONSUMED BY THEIR IGNORANCE AND LACK OF CONVICTION” – OMINOUS RESURRECTION

December 13, 2020December 14, 2020 Gerald Robinson Ominous Resurrection, Judgement, Ominous Resurrection interview, Diabolic Gulgalta interview

Conceived through mountains of bone and valleys of Death, Ominous Resurrection’s eerily-prophetic and utterly-compelling sophomore full-length, ‘Judgement’, provided a powerful

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“MY ONLY HOPE IS THAT DESPAIR TURNS TO ANGER, WHICH IN TURN SPURS PEOPLE ON TO RESIST THIS TYRANNY” – JOSEPH DEEGAN (SLIDHR)

December 8, 2020December 8, 2020 Gerald Robinson Slidhr, Slidhr interview, Joseph Deegan interview

Cursed with obscene weather, widespread inequality, a crippled health system, crooked politicians, a corrupt economy, steep taxes, alcohol dependency, paedophile

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