WATAIN – THE WILD HUNT (Century Media Records)
The title track on Watain’s fifth full-length sounds – at best – like a hybrid of Europe and Pink Floyd.
Read moreANCIENT RECORDS – DEMO COMPILATION PART 1 LP (Ancient Records)
A couple of minutes into my first listen to this record, I was starting to suspect that it represented a
Read moreTERATISM – LA BAS MLP (Negativity Records)
Sometimes a label pulls out all the stops, presentation-wise, and elevates a release head and shoulders above the competition. (Debemur
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ANTEDILUVIAN / ADVERSARIAL – INITIATED IN IMPIETY AS MYSTERIES LP (Nuclear War Now!)
Shortly after ‘Through The Cervix Of Hawaah’, Antediluvian conspired with their compatriots Adversarial to deliver the exceptional split album that
Read moreBLOODLINE – HATE PROCESSION LP (Blut & Eisen Productions)
‘Hate Procession’ initially saw the cold light of day six years after the amazing ‘Werewolf Training’ (in 2009, to be
Read moreIRAE – RITES OF UNHOLY DESTRUCTION LP + 7” (Discipline)
This compilation album has been vomited forth to mark Irae’s tenth anniversary. Thirteen songs have been re-recorded from across the
Read moreHÄDANFÄRD – SMUTSIGA SINNEN LP (Ancient Records / Afgrundsvisioner)
The incredibly-prolific Ancient Records has just released a new batch of albums – all on vinyl, as ever – and
Read moreATARAXY – REVELATIONS OF THE ETHEREAL LP (Me Saco Un Ojo Records)
Perhaps it’s simply because they are completely unknown by comparison (am I really that shallow?), but I find the debut
Read moreKAEVUM – KOSMOS ERWACHE (Darker Than Black Records)
On ‘Kosmos Erwache’, we are presented with almost an hour’s worth of demo material from excellent Norwegian horde Kaevum. The
Read moreMALÉFICES – ASARLAI (Versets Noirs)
‘Asarlai’ is the third demo cassette from Maléfices and it’s the second one I managed to get my hands on.
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