RITUAL ASCENSION – PROFANATION OF THE ADAMIC COVENANT LP (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
When times are tough, there’s nothing quite like the foreboding, ominous rumble and tremor of a good Death / Doom
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Author: Bornosin
TEITANBLOOD – FROM THE VISCERAL ABYSS (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
The inimitable (many have tried, all have failed…) maniacal magnificence of Teitanblood teems with tremendous vigour and savagery through every
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“AD HOMINEM STANDS AGAINST EVERYTHING THAT CORRUPTS THE STRENGTH AND DIGNITY OF MAN” – KAISER WODHANAZ
Whenever or wherever it was decreed that Black Metal should henceforth be safe, woke and tolerant of all, Kaiser Wodhanaz
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“IT IS EVIDENT THAT THE IDEOLOGIES THAT HAVE PREVAILED IN RECENT TIMES, FROM THE WORLD OF INFORMATION TO ACADEMIA, ARE IMBUED WITH AN OBSCURANTISM AND DOGMATISM THAT ARE ESSENTIALLY ANTI-HUMAN” – VOID A.D. (FIDES INVERSA)
As a captured world takes leave at an ever-accelerating rate of its senses and we descend deeper into an inverted
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“THROUGH THIS ABYSSAL WAY AND CLAMBERING BACK OUT, DO YOU REACH THE REAL MOUNTAINTOP AND ACTUALLY SEE WHAT IS ON THE OTHER SIDE?” – SHAWN HACHÉ (MITOCHONDRION)
Twelve tortuous years of trial, toil and tribulation gave rise through torment to Mitochondrion’s Great Work, ‘VITRISEPTOME’ – a metastasizing,
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“IT EMERGES ORGANICALLY DURING PROLONGED GUITAR STRUMMING SESSIONS, WHERE IT FEELS LIKE I’M TAPPING INTO A PRIMORDIAL FORCE AND LETTING THE MELODIC SPIRITS THAT ARISE TAKE OVER” – EL INVUNCHE
From the past comes the storms of Invunche, whose ceremonial second full-length ‘Atavismo’ challenges conventional methodologies to conjure across time
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MITOCHONDRION – VITRISEPTOME 2LP (Profound Lore Records)
Within the vastness of all, music stands alone in its ability to mesmerise. It’s not just the hypnotic sound of
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INVUNCHE – ATAVISMO LP (Nuclear War Now! Productions)
Pollinating an eclectic blend of styles and genres – predominantly (but not limited to) raw Black Metal, primitive punk and
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REVENGE – VIOLATION.STRIFE.ABOMINATE (Season of Mist Underground Activists)
With the pathetic and meek human race not so much at a crossroads as hurtling wilfully over the edge of
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DEATH LIKE MASS – THE LORD OF FLIES LP (Terratur Possessions)
The latter half of what had threatened to be an otherwise largely fruitless and uneventful calendar year from a Black
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“BLACK METAL AS WE APPRECIATE IT STILL LIVES ON AND WILL NEVER BE AFFECTED BY MODERN ANTICS” – AVSKRÄDE
Heeding the ancient call of the cold northern plains of their homeland, AVSKRÄDE evoke the true adversarial spirit of old
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APTORIAN DEMON – LIV TAR SLUTT LP (Kyrck Productions & Armour)
Orchestrator-of-agony-and-anguish Storhetsvanviddets Mester manifests suitably solemn and sombre in the black-and-white portrait adorning the back cover of Aptorian Demon’s long-awaited
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“WHAT I AIM TO DO IS INSPIRE OTHERS TO LOOK INTO THEIR INDIGENOUS ROOTS AND TO BE PROUD OF THE STRUGGLES OF THEIR ANCESTORS” – MT (MAQUAHUITL)
Maquahuitl executes an engaging, immersive breed of heartfelt, soul-charging Indigenous Black Metal that honours and pays homage to ancient ways
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“ANYTHING THAT ENABLES YOU TO REDEFINE AND BREAK THROUGH YOUR OWN HORIZON CAN FREE YOU FROM PROFOUND MANIPULATION” – NEPHESUS (AMYSTERY)
The (oc)cult is very much alive as Bavarian Black Metal enigma Amystery returns triumphantly with spellbinding new album ‘Chaos Empire
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FÖRGJORD – PERKELEEN WERI (Werewolf Records)
At this transformative time of year, as the sun retreats and darkness spreads across the north, the power of Black
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