Interviews - Swallowed In Black

“NOWADAYS IT SEEMS THAT EVERYTHING IS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN AND LIED ABOUT” – PETRI ILVESPAKKA (DIABOLI)

The living embodiment of an uncompromising underground artist, Petri Ilvespakka has been crafting authentic Black Metal art under the Diaboli

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“LIKE A STRIKE OF LIGHTNING, IT AWAKENED AND OPENED SOMETHING IN ME” – WRAATH (RITUAL DEATH)

November 30, 2022December 3, 2022 Gerald Robinson Ritual Death, Ritual Death interview, Wraath, Wraath interview

Celebrating and evoking the inevitable fate that awaits us all, Ritual Death’s deliriously-decadent and predictably-self-titled debut full-length reeks of necromancy

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“BLACK METAL IS ABOUT SPIRITUAL LIBERATION FROM THE SHACKLES OF THE DEMIURGE” – SEMJAZA (THY DARKENED SHADE)

November 28, 2022November 28, 2022 Gerald Robinson Thy Darkened Shade, SamaeLilith: A Conjunction of the Fireborn, Thy Darkened Shade interview, Semjaza interview, Liber Lvcifer II: Mahapralaya

Profusing promethean fire, channelling chaos and advocating adversary in His name, inimitable initiates Thy Darkened Shade deliver epic, elevated third

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“I SEE ‘REDEMPTIO’ AS THE GREAT BEAST THAT ARISES ABOVE EVERYTHING WITH DIFFERENT VOICES AND FACES IN ONLY ONE FURY” – LORD NATHAS (FUNERAL HARVEST)

October 12, 2022October 12, 2022 Gerald Robinson Redemptio, Funeral Harvest, Funeral Harvest interview, Lord Nathas interview

How apt in these days of spiritual destitution that Funeral Harvest should strike vengefully with debut full-length, ‘Redemptio’, swinging their

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“TO EXIST AMONG THESE MENDACIOUS MASSES IS THE REAL HELL” – GRÀNT (GRÀB)

October 8, 2022 Gerald Robinson Gràb interview, Gràb, Grànt interview, Zeitlang

Transfused with an importation of Ingvaeonic blood, Gràb returns from its temporary resting place in the silent, peaceful Bavarian grave

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“LIGHT IS THERE TO SHINE, BUT WITHOUT IMMENSE DARKNESS IT CANNOT BE SEEN” – DEACON D (HETROERTZEN)

September 11, 2022September 11, 2022 Gerald Robinson Hetroertzen, Phosphorus Vol I, Deacon D interview, Hetroertzen interview

All-consuming darkness permeates ‘Phosphorus Vol I’, the seventh full-length sacrament of Hetroertzen, wherein this mystical and mysterious vampiric coven also

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“PRAISE YOUR FILTHY HUMAN URGES AND PRAISE SATAN AS A FREER FROM YOUR SHACKLES” – FLAGG

September 21, 2022 Gerald Robinson Flagg, Cosmic Chaos Manifest, Flagg interview

A scorching maelstrom of paradoxically familiar yet fresh Black Metal blasphemy and barbarism bristles with belligerence and contempt across Flagg’s

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“TRUE SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL STRENGTH DOES NOT COME FROM GOD, BUT FROM ONESELF” – H.V (BLOOD CHALICE)

August 13, 2022August 13, 2022 Gerald Robinson The Blasphemous Psalms of Cannibalism, Blood Chalice interview

The barbaric battery of death-infused brutality blasting forth from Blood Chalice’s sophomore full-length, ‘The Blasphemous Psalms of Cannibalism’, singles the

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“I HAVE DEFINITELY SEEN A RESURGENCE OF INDIGENOUS FOLKS RECONNECTING AND LEARNING ABOUT THE OLD WAYS” – HUEY ITZTEKWANOTL O))) (TZOMPANTLI)

May 1, 2022May 1, 2022 Gerald Robinson Tlazcaltiliztli, Tzompantli, Tzompantli interview, Huey Itztekwanotl o))) interview, Huey Itztekwanotl o)))

Honouring, celebrating and invoking the might, majesty and oftentimes brutality of the Mesoamerican people, Tzompantli’s intoxicating breed of distinctive death

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“IT TOUCHES UPON DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF MAIN RELIGIONS, LIKE BUDDHISM, WITH THEIR ALMOST COMPOST-LIKE REINCARNATION HORROR, AS WELL AS CHRISTIANS AND THEIR LOVE FOR DECOMPOSED RELICS AND FLESH-EATING RITUALS” – VALAIS

February 4, 2022February 4, 2022 Gerald Robinson Valais, Valais interview

The inherent stupidity of man, death worship and the perverse absurdity of religious devotion are wantonly explored on Valais’ seething,

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“YOU DRIVE UP THROUGH THE WHITE MOUNTAINS AND YOU WILL FEEL IT…” – HEATHEN (NORTHERN)

January 26, 2022 Gerald Robinson NortherN, Cabin Fever, Cold Northern Vengeance, Heathen, NortherN interview

Channelling the inherent evil and insufferable hostility of New Hampshire, where the inexorable might of nature holds dominion over all

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“ALL CIVILISATIONS MUST FALL AS ALL PROGRESS EVENTUALLY REACHES ITS APOGEUM AND FROM THEN ON IT’S SIMPLY A DOWNWARD ROLLERCOASTER” – T. KAOS (LVCIFYRE)

January 22, 2022January 27, 2022 Gerald Robinson Lvcifyre, The Broken Seal, Lvcifyre interview

On the immense exploration of creation and destruction that constitutes monolithic, mesmeric third full-length ‘The Broken Seal’ – poignantly realised