“HUMANITY SHOULD STILL SOMEHOW SUFFER TREMENDOUSLY, UNPRECEDENTEDLY, BEFORE IT CEASES TO EXIST” – NUMINOUS
In faithful servitude to divine evil, Numinous wages war on the contemptible creation of the enemy and invokes the destruction
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Author: Bornosin
“THERE’S A LOT I HONOUR ABOUT THE ORIGINATORS OF BLACK METAL AND WE WOULDN’T BE HERE TODAY IF IT WEREN’T FOR THEM” – D.G. (MISÞYRMING)
At once revisiting and reimagining the raucous belligerence of ‘Söngvar elds og óreiðu’ whilst expanding upon this trailblazing Icelandic enigma’s
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VERMINOUS SERPENT – THE MALIGN COVENANT (Amor Fati Productions)
An unlikely convergence yields unpredictable and remarkable results on ‘The Malign Covenant’ – 41 minutes of occult doom-infused black necromancy
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“WE FIND IT IMPORTANT TO TRY AND FOLLOW OUR OWN PATH, REGARDLESS OF WHAT OTHERS ARE DOING” – NAMELESS VOID (NEGATIVE PLANE)
Weaving together a sinister sequence of nefarious deeds perpetrated on consecrated ground, Negative Plane’s ground-breaking third full-length, ‘The Pact…’, is
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“THE RETURN TO THE TRENCHES OF THE WESTERN FRONT WAS AN INTENTIONAL DECISION THAT TAKES THE BAND BACK AROUND, FULL CIRCLE, TO WHERE I BEGAN” – KRIEGSHAMMER (MINENWERFER)
Bathed in the eerie crimson glow of the Somme, riddled with lice, hobbled by trench foot, malnourished, sleep-deprived and with
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APOGEION – ASTROLATRIA I: INITIATIO. (Northern Heritage Records)
I was tempted to observe that Northern Heritage is on a rich run of form right now but in fairness
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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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NOCTURNAL DEPARTURE – CLANDESTINE THEURGY (Hells Headbangers Records)
Ghastly ghoulish growls and soul-shredding shrieks of the damned vie for supremacy on the scathing surface of ‘Clandestine Theurgy’, 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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KRINGA – ALL STILLBORN FIRES, LICK MY HEART (Terratur Possessions)
Casting seven sorcerous spells from the godforsaken outpost that is the eastern realm, the inimitable, trailblazing channellers of outlandish auditory
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OBSKURITATEM – AROGANTNI NIHILIZAM 2LP (Black Gangrene Productions)
In these inane times of instant gratification and ever-diminishing attention spans, where the masses of docile human cattle are too
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NÉCROPOLE – YOGA (Northern Heritage Records)
I feared Amertume might drop completely off-grid (in terms of releasing new music) after laying Caverne to rest with the
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NOENUM – HERESIARCH (Northern Heritage Records)
Noenum delivers a delirious dose of glorious, majestic, arcane Black Metal mercury on debut full-length, ‘Heresiarch’. What the Finnish duo
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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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BLACK DEATH CULT – DIASPORA LP (Profound Lore Records)
Black / Death Metal doesn’t get much more surreal and out there than Black Death Cult’s frankly deranged second fantastical
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