DRAKONHAIL – LE SENTIER 2LP (ASRAR)
I’m confident that the prolific entity behind Drakonhail couldn’t care less whether or not his music is in any way
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Author: Bornosin
“ALL THE WORSHIP OF DEATH AND PLAGUE, YET LITTLE HARDSHIPS AND SMALL OBSTACLES OF LIFE ARE MOURNED INTENSIVELY” – MIKKO ASPA (CLANDESTINE BLAZE)
Over the course of a single-minded, uncompromising descent into depravity spanning 23 years and counting, elevated by a refusal to
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SPECTRES & TEETH – NO MAGICK SPAWNS! EP (Into Endless Chaos Records)
Hope I’m not putting two and two together and getting five here but I’m confidently assuming that Kringa pair Vritra
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VIA SINISTRA – SILENCIOSO CULTO DO ABISMO LP (Altare Productions)
From the land of raw and noisy Black Metal, Via Sinistra emerge with their debut full-length, ‘Silencioso Culto Do Abismo’,
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GJENDØD – SKYGGER FRA DØDSRIKET LP (Darker Than Black Records)
Collating the material from Gjendød’s fourth and fifth demos, ‘Dødsrikets Pinsler’ and ‘Død Manns Skygge’, both of which were recorded
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CLANDESTINE BLAZE – FIRE BURNS IN OUR HEARTS LP (Northern Heritage Records)
The Black Metal landscape was relatively unbastardised when Clandestine Blaze struck with debut full-length ‘Fire Burns In Our Hearts’ before
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SINMARA – HVÍSL STJARNANNA LP (Ván Records)
It’s not far off two years ago to the day that Sinmara delivered their devastatingly apocalyptic and dark-as-soot sophomore full-length,
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“TIME WILL TELL IF MANKIND WILL FINALLY WAKE UP OR REMAIN THE LITTLE SISSY IT HAS BECOME” – NORNAGEST (ENTHRONED)
Thirteen months have passed since Satan’s loyal servants Enthroned brought His word to the masses through the medium of a
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CLANDESTINE BLAZE – FIST OF THE NORTHERN DESTROYER LP (Northern Heritage Records)
There’s a shocking dearth of quality new releases appearing at present – and this has been the case for quite
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NEXUL – SCYTHED WINGS OF POISONOUS DECAY MLP (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Though modestly granted EP status, ‘Scythed Wings Of Poisonous Decay’ in reality falls into full-length territory as it clocks in
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“WE VIEW THE CONCEPT AS A HERMETIC BASTARD OF DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY, HORROR AND COSMOLOGY” – INFERNO
The ominous, otherworldly cosmological horror that is Inferno’s impending eighth full-length album, ‘Paradeigma (Phosphenes of Aphotic Eternity)’, looms ever larger
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“AFTER THE TRIBULATION, THERE WILL BE A NEW RULE” – ORNIAS (SVARTSYN)
As the fragile foundations of western civilisation crumble like chalk and society suffers an ignominious, irreversible collapse, under inexorable attack
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“THOSE WHO CLAIM TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING ARE JUST CHARLATANS WITH TOO BIG AN EGO AND SHOULD TAKE AN INJECTION OF DOUBT” – EKLEZJAS’TIK BERZERK [SEKTARISM)
Projecting the most disturbing, redemptive resonances known to man, Sektarism’s corrupted, cathartic conjurations invoke a genuine sense of dread and
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CEREMONIAL BLOODBATH – THE TIDES OF BLOOD (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
‘With the aptly-titled ‘The Tides Of Blood’, Ceremonial Bloodbath crafted a twisted malformation of hideous, horrific Death Metal malignancy that
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KULT OFENZIVY – TAK JSEM JI PŘIZVAL K SOBĚ LP (New Era Productions)
‘Tak Jsem Ji Přizval K Sobě’ is an unapologetic throwback to days gone by when a large percentage of the
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