MYLINGAR – DÖDA SJÄLAR LP (Amor Fati Productions)
Ferocious vocals are one of the trusted staples of extreme music – or at least should be. The best Death
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ENCOFFINATION – WE PROCLAIM YOUR DEATH, O’ LORD 2LP (Selfmadegod Records)
It’s a decidedly sluggish, laboured, drawn-out demise indeed for o’ lord at the hands of Encoffination, the masters of morbid
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AMNUTSEBA – EMANATISM LP (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Dwelling decrepitly, surreptitiously within the hazy twilight betwixt Death Metal and Black Metal, Amnutseba are not in any immediate danger
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VORTEX OF END – ARDENS FVROR 2LP (Osmose Productions)
Released last summer, when the world was still full of hope and wonder, Vortex of End’s third full-length offering is
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ARMAGEDDA – OND SPIRITISM: DJÆFVVLENS SKALDER ANNO SERPENTI MMIV LP (Nordvis Produktion)
Short-lived but highly significant Swedish Black Metal duo Armagedda treated the freefalling world to three landmark full-lengths in successive years
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SULPHURIC NIGHT – ARCANE MONOLITHS OF TRIUMPHANT DEATH 2LP (Altare Productions / Black Gangrene Productions)
In conspiracy with other high-quality composites such as Void Prayer, Niteris and of course Obskuritatem, Sulphuric Night is part of
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ENTHRONED – COLD BLACK SUNS LP (Season Of Mist)
Nobody in Black Metal flies under the radar quite as majestically, appropriately and inconspicuously as Belgium’s long-serving, oft-reinvented light-crushing battalion
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MISÞYRMING – ALGLEYMI LP (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
As one of the highest peaks of Icelandic Black Metal, Misþyrming’s stellar debut album ‘Söngvar Elds Og Óreiðu’ was always
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RIDE FOR REVENGE – SINKING THE SONG LP (Bestial Burst / Final Agony Records)
Returning with equal parts trepidation and anticipation to the weird, warped and wacky world of Harald Mentor to explore Ride
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AORATOS – GODS WITHOUT NAME LP (Debemur Morti Productions)
Aoratos – the latest fully-formed, bastard protuberance from that ghastly Nightbringer organism, the foul, ugly, crippled half-brother of Akhlys and
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