SPECTRAL WOUND – A DIABOLIC THIRST (Profound Lore Records)
On their superbly-crafted and skilfully-executed third full-length, Spectral Wound celebrate Black Metal’s most essential spirit of decadence, but they have
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“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 the most-anticipated comebacks in extreme music history when
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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
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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ANTAEUS – DE PRINCIPII EVANGELIKUM LP (Osmose Productions)
For whatever reason, I’ve been devoting an ever-increasing amount of my rather scarce listening time to older albums in recent
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ALTARAGE – SUCCUMB (Season of Mist Underground Activists)
First off, to be clear, this is not music, neither in the conventional sense nor in any other way. What
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PESTIS CULTUS – PESTIS CULTUS LP (Signal Rex)
In the three decades that I’ve been listening to Black Metal I don’t remember experiencing a lull like the current
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DIGERDÖDEN – GENOM DÖDENS SVARTA TÖRST LP (New Era Productions)
Another creation conjured from the mind of the inimitable Swartadauthuz, Digerdöden (translated as black death) specialises in swirling, cascading atmospheric
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INFERNO – PARADEIGMA (PHOSPHENES OF APHOTIC ETERNITY) (Debemur Morti Productions)
The second coming of Inferno was initiated on their sixth studio full-length, the magnificent ‘Omniabsence Filled By His Greatness’, which
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IRAE / WØMB / ORDEM SÂTANICA – EXPURGAÇÃO DA IRA PELO VENTRE DE SATANÁS LP (Signal Rex)
Satan has triumphed and the four horsemen have ushered in a new era of darkness. In an otherwise abandoned former
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DEMONOMANTIC – THROUGH THE PATH OF HIS MAJESTY LP (Final Agony Records)
‘Through The Path Of His Majesty’ is one of two albums released by Demonomantic in 2017, hot on the heels
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