URFAUST – UNTERGANG (Ván Records)
After 20 years of ritualistic intoxication, Urfaust in no more. The inebriated Dutch duo have unexpectedly called time with seventh
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Author: Bornosin
DROWNING THE LIGHT – VIOLET MERCURY & MOONLIGHT SORCERY EP (Dark Adversary Productions)
Channelled most conspicuously under the infamous Drowning the Light banner, Azgorh’s dedication / contribution to true underground Black Metal across
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DIABOLICAL FULLMOON – RESURRECTION OF THE ANCIENT FAITH (UNHOLY REBORN POLISH BLACK METAL ART) LP (Signal Rex)
Thirty years on from the sacred seal of the infamous Temple of Fullmoon, the belligerent, intolerant howl of Poland’s pagan
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“THE FACT THAT SOMETHING LIVES ONLY FOR A LIMITED TIME VASTLY INCREASES THE VALUE OF THAT TIME” – KARAPAN DARVISH (DAKHMA)
Shrouded in ancient Persian mysticism, the singular Death Metal of Dakhma soared to new heights of celestial obscurity on second
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CH’AHOM – CAMAZOTZ CULT (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
In these tedious, tiresome times of seemingly-endless, same-sounding, mundane, derivative mediocrity, authentic obscurity has become the Holy Grail. Who can
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CLANDESTINE BLAZE – RESACRALIZE THE UNKNOWN LP (Northern Heritage Records)
With fantastically frigid riffage, frantic drumming and a lone feral howl commences Clandestine Blaze’s twelfth full-length abomination of indignant blackness.
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KOMMODUS – WREATH OF BLEEDING SNOWFALL (Goatowarex)
Three years on from the expansive and audacious self-titled debut and two after the majestic collaboration with Pan-Amerikan Native Front
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“THE USAGE OF GAELIC LANGUAGE IN COSCRADH REFLECTS THE PARTICULAR BRUTAL STORIES BEING TOLD AND ATTEMPTS TO REFLECT THE TIME PERIOD” – CIARÁN Ó CRÍODÁIN
June, 2023: in conspiracy with cross-Atlantic cousins Ascended Dead and to commemorate with slaughterous and deadly deeds the advent of
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“IT WOULD BE ABSURD TO LOOK AWAY AS THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WON’T EVER CHANGE AND WE HAVE TO ACCEPT IT” – ATARAXY
Drawing inspiration not from fiction but the immense, irreversible tragedy and horror of the human experience, Aragonese dark death dealers
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“MY MUSIC WILL ALWAYS RAISE HELL AND MAKE YOU FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE” – FINIAN PATRAIC
Despite dwelling in almost perfect isolation from an increasingly illogical and inverted outside world, Finian Patraic still succeeds in ruffling
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“CHOOSING BABYLON OVER JERUSALEM IS A METAPHOR FOR CHOOSING THE CREATED WORLD OVER THE TRANSCENDENT HEAVEN OF THE CREATOR” – MALACH ADONAI (DØDSENGEL)
For a score of years less four, inimitable occult oddity Dødsengel has harvested an uncannily nourishing bounty of obscure, illuminating
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COSCRADH – NAHANAGAN STADIAL LP (Invictus Productions)
A cleansing, apocalyptic sonic storm erupts ominously on ‘Nahanagan Stadial’, the debut Coscradh full-length onslaught, and never relents, inexorably obliterating
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IMPETUOUS RITUAL – INIQUITOUS BARBARIK SYNTHESIS (Profound Lore Records)
A swirling maelstrom of unstoppable sonic fury erupts to usher in the fourth Impetuous Ritual full-length and the irrepressible chaos
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CLANDESTINE BLAZE – DELIVERERS OF FAITH LP (Northern Heritage Records)
The fourth filthy Clandestine Blaze album, ‘Deliverers of Faith’, emerged in 2005 and – alongside its equally immense follow-up, ‘Church
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PALE SPEKTRE – BEREFT OF XEROTIC LAYERS LP (Amor Fati Productions / Nuclear War Now! Productions)
Stellar drumming is just one of the many outstanding attributes that enable Pale Spektre’s highly-charged opening full-length shot, ‘Bereft of
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