ADVERSARIAL – SOLITUDE WITH THE ETERNAL… (Dark Descent Records)
An all-consuming ode to darkness, desolation and dread, the third Adversarial full-length ‘Solitude with the Eternal…’ arrives abrasively announcing itself
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DEAD REPTILE SHRINE – N.T.K. LP (Final Agony Records)
As Black Metal moves ever further away from its dangerous, mysterious and antihuman roots, it is perhaps more timely than
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AKITSA – DEVENIR LE DIABLE LP (Hospital Productions)
Always a safe bet to deliver quality output from a truly dissident, misanthropic and uncompromising perspective, Akitsa has been to
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“WHETHER PEOPLE LIKE IT OR NOT, THIS ‘OLD WORLD’ IS STILL ALIVE TODAY, NOT JUST THROUGH THE REMAINS AND RUINS BUT ALSO THROUGH US – ITS DIRECT HEIRS – WHO CARRY THIS HERITAGE IN OURSELVES” – ARDRAOS (SÜHNOPFER)
Summoning solemnly the spirit and essence of the past, feverish fourth Sühnopfer full-length ‘Nous sommes d’hier’ defiantly evokes and immortalises
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VOËMMR – NEGRAS SESSÕES NO ABISMO SUL LP (Signal Rex)
Even by the outsider standards of Portugal’s notorious Aldebaran Circle, Voëmmr is something of an outlier, somehow more otherworldly and
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TETRAGRAMMACIDE – TYPHO-TANTRIC APHORISMS FROM THE ARACHNEOPHIDIAN QUR’AN LP (Iron Bonehead Productions)
On immense life-negating second full-length, ‘Typho-Tantric Aphorisms From The Arachneophidian Qur’an’, Calcuttan esoterrorists Tetragrammacide have delivered three-quarters-of-an-hour of truly astounding
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DEMONCY – BLACK STAR GNOSIS LP (Dark Descent Records)
‘Black Star Gnosis’ is a truly evil-sounding record that transports us magickally back the olden days of Black Metal, and
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MARDUK – MEMENTO MORI LP (Century Media Records)
So much has already been said and written about the ridiculously-great ‘Memento Mori’ in the five months or so since
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“WHO WOULD HAVE BELIEVED IN THE ‘90s THAT BLACK METAL WOULD BE MUSIC PLAYED AT PLACES SUCH AS HELLFEST, WOULD WIN AWARDS IN NORDIC COUNTRIES, OR WOULD HAVE T-SHIRTS AT H&M STORES?” – PERVERSIFIER (MERRIMACK)
The peerless, pioneering, persevering force of supreme Parisian Black Metal made manifest under the Merrimack banner is ready to expand
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“IT IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE TO CREATE SOMETHING UNIQUE” – S.P.S. (CH’AHOM)
The dead speak across the aeons through the eerily unconventional soundscapes of ‘Knots of Abhorrence’, the immersive and timeless debut
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“BLACK METAL SHOULD BE MISANTHROPIC, DANGEROUS AND MYSTERIOUS” – G. (GOATKRAFT)
Contemptuously channelling to devastating effect the infernal majesty and Satanic might of unrestrained Bestial Black Metal misanthropy, Goatkraft’s hideously-blasphemous, death-worshipping,
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“THEY WILL CUT DOWN EVERY TREE, KILL EVERY FREE ANIMAL AND DESTROY THEIR HABITAT, POISON THE ENVIRONMENT, BUT NOBODY BLINKS AN EYE” – JOSEPH DEEGAN (SLIDHR)
The unelected architects of chaos have inadvertently inspired a masterwork of Black Metal protestation and resistance that resiliently, resolutely reflects
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“I WOULD URGE ALL FOLK TO LOOK DEEPLY INTO THEIR OWN HEARTS AND ASK THEMSELVES WILL THEY REALLY BE HAPPY GOING TO THEIR GRAVES KNOWING THEY DID NOTHING WHEN THEY COULD HAVE TAKEN A STAND” – RICH WALKER (SOLSTICE)
Unbloodied, unbowed and unjabbed, iconic indigenous English Epic Metal cult Solstice emerged unscathed through tumultuous times of tyrannical tribulation, flame
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BLUT AUS NORD – DISHARMONIUM – NAHAB LP (Debemur Morti Productions)
For most of its nigh on 30 years of existence, Blut aus Nord has followed its own path – one
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SLIDHR – WHITE HART! (Debemur Morti Productions)
The trademark anger, indignation and misanthropic disillusionment that characterises J. Deegan’s musical vision is more palpable and pronounced than ever
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