SODALITY – BENEDICTION PART 1 LP (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
The inimitably-evil enunciation of Mark of the Devil dovetails demonically with the macabre musicianship of T. Kaos to startling, inspirational
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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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DØDSENGEL – BAB AL ON 2LP (Debemur Morti Productions)
Rewind ten-fourteen years to Dødsengel’s glorious formative years, when the self-proclaimed Norwegian angel of death arrived with murderous intent into
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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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VERMINOUS SERPENT – THE MALIGN COVENANT (Amor Fati Productions)
An unlikely convergence yields unpredictable and remarkable results on ‘The Malign Covenant’ – 41 minutes of occult doom-infused black necromancy
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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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“THE RETURN TO THE TRENCHES OF THE WESTERN FRONT WAS AN INTENTIONAL DECISION THAT TAKES THE BAND BACK AROUND, FULL CIRCLE, TO WHERE I BEGAN” – KRIEGSHAMMER (MINENWERFER)
Bathed in the eerie crimson glow of the Somme, riddled with lice, hobbled by trench foot, malnourished, sleep-deprived and with
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APOGEION – ASTROLATRIA I: INITIATIO. (Northern Heritage Records)
I was tempted to observe that Northern Heritage is on a rich run of form right now but in fairness
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