FUNERAL WINDS – STIGMATA MALI (Osmose Productions)
No respite from Funeral Winds. If anything, the ferocious offensive against the holy trinity is becoming more fearsome with the
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MINENWERFER – FEUERWALZE (Osmose Productions)
After four years (fittingly) of quiet on the western front, Californian warmongers Minenwerfer return with a fresh and devastating wave
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HATE FOREST – INNERMOST (Osmose Productions)
Hate Forest is an institution in itself and each new release from Black Metal’s most notorious history teacher constitutes an
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VORTEX OF END – ABHORRENT FERVOR (Osmose Productions)
Vortex of End have streamlined and honed their attack on fourth full-length, ‘Abhorrent Fervor’, which delivers a more refined 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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HATE FOREST – HOUR OF THE CENTAUR (Osmose Productions)
Just like that, when least expected, Hate Forest returns from the dead. After 16 years of silence, I assumed this
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ONDSKAPT – GRIMOIRE ORDO DEVUS (Osmose Productions)
A wicked, malevolent prelude introduces the fourth Ondskapt curse before ‘Semita Sinistram’ guides us contemptuously towards the left-hand path and
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ABHOMINE – PROSELYTE PARASITE PLAGUE LP (Osmose Productions / Hells Headbangers Records)
Veteran wreckers Pete Helmkamp and Cazz Grant condense an unmerciful barrage of violence into 23 minutes on Abhomine’s brief but
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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
Read moreLIBER NULL – I, THE SERPENT LP (Osmose Productions)
Even though it is, to all intents and purposes, shamelessly derivative and at times comes across like a poor man’s
Read moreTHE OMINOUS CIRCLE – APPALLING ASCENSION 2LP (Osmose Productions)
Another new band concealing their identities by covering their faces in Mgła-style masks (as if anybody actually cares who they
Read moreBESTIA ARCANA – TO ANABAINON EK TES ABYSSU 2LP (Osmose Productions)
Bestia Arcana features current and ex members of Nightbringer and it is by no means a sweeping generalisation to suggest
Read moreILDJARN / HATE FOREST – THOSE ONCE MIGHTY FALLEN 2LP (Osmose Productions)
This split album comes as a welcome surprise. Both these acts have ceased to be, so the excavation of lost
Read moreVOMITCHAPEL – THE HOUSE OF THE LORD DESPOILED (Osmose Productions)
Vomitchapel is Ghoat, the same person responsible for acts such as Hills of Sefiroth, Father Befouled and the rather magnificent
Read moreELYSIAN BLAZE – BLOOD GEOMETRY 3LP (Osmose Productions)
As I invariably adopt a wham-bam-thank-you-mam approach to writing reviews, an album of the sheer scope of ‘Blood Geometry’ presents
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