Interviews - Swallowed In Black

“BLACK METAL MUST CONVEY A CERTAIN KIND OF DARKNESS TO THE LISTENER” – ASKE

September 16, 2020November 3, 2020 Bornosin Aske, Aske interview, Dead Christ Prayer

As innumerable interlopers of dubious ideological inclination shamelessly claim Black Metal as their own, are the original dark and dangerous

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“FOR HOW INTELLIGENT A SPECIES WE ARE, AND HOW FAR WE’VE COME, WE CAN’T SEEM TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO EVOLVE, CO-HABIT AND PROSPER WITHOUT THE CONTINUED DESTRUCTION OF OURSELVES” – BOG BODY

September 12, 2020September 12, 2020 Bornosin The Gate Of Grief, Bog Body, Stygian Black Hand, Bog Body interview

Bog Body’s primitive, savage death rituals celebrate the transience of human life in all its harrowing glory, the fleeting nature

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“SIGNIFICANT PORTIONS OF POPULATIONS AROUND THE WORLD HAVE BEEN CONDITIONED TO THINK THAT THEIR PATCH OF LAND IS THEIR PATCH OF LAND” – BARNEY GREENWAY

September 9, 2020September 10, 2020 Bornosin Napalm Death, Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism, Barney Greenway interview

Paradoxically pairing some of the most vitriolic, abrasive and confrontational music on the face of this godforsaken planet with profoundly

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“I’VE ALWAYS BEEN OBSESSED WITH THE IDEA OF SOME MAGIC BEING LEFT IN THE WORLD” – LEPIDUS PLAGUE (KOMMODUS)

September 2, 2020September 2, 2020 Bornosin Kommodus, Kommodus interview, Lepidus Plague interview

Presenting 75 minutes of raw Black Metal mastery, Kommodus’ self-titled debut full-length is as enigmatic as it is ambitious. The

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“IMPURITY AND VERMIN BREED IN STAGNANT POOLS – FLOW AND MOVEMENT IS THE NATURAL WAY TO CLEANSE THE BLOOD” – CORPSESSED

August 28, 2020August 28, 2020 Bornosin Corpsessed, Corpsessed interview, Matti Mäkelä interview

In these unprecedented, alien times of plague, isolation and paranoia, as the new normal takes hold like a spiritual cancer,

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“TALKING ABOUT STANDARD, SLASHER FANTASIES WORKS FOR SOME BANDS BUT WE HAVE ALWAYS KEPT IT CLOSER TO REALITY” – NECROT

August 26, 2020August 27, 2020 Bornosin Mortal, Necrot, Necrot interview

For all its gore, brutality and extremity, perhaps even Death Metal cannot succeed in conveying the real horror of everyday

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“WHAT I SEE IS A GLOBULAR FIGURE DRIPPING WITH EXCREMENT, COVERED IN EYES, STANDING IN A CAVE” – HAASIOPHIS (ANTEDILUVIAN)

August 22, 2020August 22, 2020 Bornosin Antediluvian, Defleshing The Serpent Infinity, Antediluvian interview, Tim Grieco interview, Through the Cervix of Hawaah

The tumult, terror and transcendence of Antediluvian’s music is matched for sheer, naked potency only by the decadence, depravity and

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“IF HUMANITY WERE REMOVED FROM OUR TERRESTRIAL ABODE, WE WOULD STILL FIND A WAY TO EXIST SOLELY WITHIN CYCLES OF REPETITION” – VOID ROT

August 11, 2020August 11, 2020 Bornosin Descending Pillars, Void Rot, Void Rot interview

Equal parts science fiction, cosmic chaos and sheer horror, the concept behind Void Rot’s magnificent forthcoming debut full-length of utterly

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“DEATH IS EVERYTHING AND EVERYWHERE BUT IN DIFFERENT PHASES OF CONSCIOUSNESS” – THE FUNERAL ORCHESTRA

August 4, 2020August 4, 2020 Bornosin The Funeral Orchestra interview, Negative Evocation Rites, The Funeral Orchestra

Death is the mantra on The Funeral Orchestra’s long-awaited sophomore full-length, ‘Negative Evocation Rites’ – a crawling, crushing leviathan of

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“IF NOTHING MATTERS TO YOU, GREAT, THEN TAKE ALL THE RISKS AND TRY TO BURN BRIGHTER THAN ANYBODY BEFORE” – SHRINE OF INSANABILIS

July 30, 2020 Bornosin Shrine Of Insanabilis interview, Shrine Of Insanabilis, Vast Vortex Litanies

Void-gazing dimensional nomads Shrine Of Insanabilis have crafted two stellar albums of thought-provoking, illuminating, occult Black Metal. I contacted the

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“MELANCHOLY, PANIC AND FEAR ARE ATTRIBUTES OF WEAK, CLOSE-MINDED PEOPLE” – THRONEUM

July 23, 2020July 23, 2020 Bornosin Throneum, Oh Death... Oh Death... Determinate Preach And Lead Us Astray..., Throneum interview

Suitably entranced by the ghastly, death-worshipping new Throneum album, ‘Oh Death… Oh Death… Determinate, Preach and Lead Us Astray…’, I

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“MAN IS ADDICTED TO FEEDING THE SURFACE ASPECTS OF THE EGO” – ACHERONTAS

July 12, 2020July 13, 2020 Bornosin Acherontas interview, Acherontas, Psychic Death - The Shattering Of Perceptions

Judging by the vibrancy and vitality of their exceptional eighth full-length, ‘Psychic Death – The Shattering Of Perceptions’, it’s fair

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“HOW CAN YOU CALL YOUR MUSIC TRULY VIOLENT AND EXTREME IF IT’S CORRUPTED AND WEAKENED BY INTELLECTUAL NUANCE?” – DIABOLIC OATH

July 1, 2020July 2, 2020 Bornosin Diabolic Oath interview, Profane Death Exodus

Battered and bruised by the seething maelstrom of ritualistic sonic chaos that is Diabolic Oath’s devastating debut album, I sought

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“HUMANKIND WOULD BE BETTER OFF IF RELIGIOUS DOGMAS AND FAITH DISSOLVE ALTOGETHER” – A.L.N. (MIZMOR)

June 24, 2020June 24, 2020 Bornosin Cairn, Mizmor interview, A.L.N. interview

Armed with the empirical evidence provided by hard science, introspective Mizmor creator A.L.N. concluded that god is counterfeit and that

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“IT WAS A TIME OF SILENCE, A TIME TO REFLECT AND A TIME TO RETURN TO THE ESSENCE OF THINGS” – PORTAE OBSCURITAS

June 17, 2020June 17, 2020 Bornosin Lvx Atra Aeterna, Portae Obscuritas, Portae Obscuritas interview

Obscure Austrian darkness dealers Portae Obscuritas used the lockdown to take stock of things and to continue working on their