“IT IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE TO CREATE SOMETHING UNIQUE” – S.P.S. (CH’AHOM)
The dead speak across the aeons through the eerily unconventional soundscapes of ‘Knots of Abhorrence’, the immersive and timeless debut
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Interviews
“BLACK METAL SHOULD BE MISANTHROPIC, DANGEROUS AND MYSTERIOUS” – G. (GOATKRAFT)
Contemptuously channelling to devastating effect the infernal majesty and Satanic might of unrestrained Bestial Black Metal misanthropy, Goatkraft’s hideously-blasphemous, death-worshipping,
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“THEY WILL CUT DOWN EVERY TREE, KILL EVERY FREE ANIMAL AND DESTROY THEIR HABITAT, POISON THE ENVIRONMENT, BUT NOBODY BLINKS AN EYE” – JOSEPH DEEGAN (SLIDHR)
The unelected architects of chaos have inadvertently inspired a masterwork of Black Metal protestation and resistance that resiliently, resolutely reflects
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“IF AN ADVERSARIAL OR OCCULT CURRENT IS NOT PRESENT WITHIN THE WILL OF A BAND, I AM NOT SURE WHY THEY ARE CREATING BLACK METAL” – AZGORH (DROWNING THE LIGHT)
Faithfully following the crooked path for twenty fallen years, Drowning the Light has defiantly and independently crafted a teeming tome
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“THIS THING IS DEFINITELY EVIL AND PART OF THAT COMES FROM THE CLARITY OF THE RIFFS” – PAUL LEDNEY (PROFANATICA)
The ungodly symmetry and inverted irony of Profanatica’s saviour-impaling new full-length ‘Crux Simplex’ – a suitably sadistic and scorn-fuelled musical
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“THE FACT THAT SOMETHING LIVES ONLY FOR A LIMITED TIME VASTLY INCREASES THE VALUE OF THAT TIME” – KARAPAN DARVISH (DAKHMA)
Shrouded in ancient Persian mysticism, the singular Death Metal of Dakhma soared to new heights of celestial obscurity on second
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“THE USAGE OF GAELIC LANGUAGE IN COSCRADH REFLECTS THE PARTICULAR BRUTAL STORIES BEING TOLD AND ATTEMPTS TO REFLECT THE TIME PERIOD” – CIARÁN Ó CRÍODÁIN
June, 2023: in conspiracy with cross-Atlantic cousins Ascended Dead and to commemorate with slaughterous and deadly deeds the advent of
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“IT WOULD BE ABSURD TO LOOK AWAY AS THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WON’T EVER CHANGE AND WE HAVE TO ACCEPT IT” – ATARAXY
Drawing inspiration not from fiction but the immense, irreversible tragedy and horror of the human experience, Aragonese dark death dealers
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“MY MUSIC WILL ALWAYS RAISE HELL AND MAKE YOU FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE” – FINIAN PATRAIC
Despite dwelling in almost perfect isolation from an increasingly illogical and inverted outside world, Finian Patraic still succeeds in ruffling
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“CHOOSING BABYLON OVER JERUSALEM IS A METAPHOR FOR CHOOSING THE CREATED WORLD OVER THE TRANSCENDENT HEAVEN OF THE CREATOR” – MALACH ADONAI (DØDSENGEL)
For a score of years less four, inimitable occult oddity Dødsengel has harvested an uncannily nourishing bounty of obscure, illuminating
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“HUMANITY NO LONGER ACTS ACCORDING TO LOGIC, BUT TO WHAT THE AUTHORITIES AND THE MEDIA SAY” – ADRASTOS (TOTAL HATE)
With their ferocious fifth full-length offensive, ‘Marching Towards Humanicide’, unforgiving Franconian Black Metal insurgents Total Hate deliver a trademark incendiary
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“THIS IS WHERE WE BELONG AND WE’RE NOT GOING TO PRETEND TO BE SOMEONE WE’RE NOT” – GRINDAK (ETERNAL ROT)
Lurking undead within the foulest cesspools of the underground, the contaminated cadavers of Eternal Rot have refreshingly regurgitated a noxious
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“HUMANITY SHOULD STILL SOMEHOW SUFFER TREMENDOUSLY, UNPRECEDENTEDLY, BEFORE IT CEASES TO EXIST” – NUMINOUS
In faithful servitude to divine evil, Numinous wages war on the contemptible creation of the enemy and invokes the destruction
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“THERE’S A LOT I HONOUR ABOUT THE ORIGINATORS OF BLACK METAL AND WE WOULDN’T BE HERE TODAY IF IT WEREN’T FOR THEM” – D.G. (MISÞYRMING)
At once revisiting and reimagining the raucous belligerence of ‘Söngvar elds og óreiðu’ whilst expanding upon this trailblazing Icelandic enigma’s
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“WE FIND IT IMPORTANT TO TRY AND FOLLOW OUR OWN PATH, REGARDLESS OF WHAT OTHERS ARE DOING” – NAMELESS VOID (NEGATIVE PLANE)
Weaving together a sinister sequence of nefarious deeds perpetrated on consecrated ground, Negative Plane’s ground-breaking third full-length, ‘The Pact…’, is
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