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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Black Metal Reviews
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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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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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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WHOREDOM RIFE – DEN VREDE MAKT LP (Terratur Possessions)
Whoredom Rife keeps pushing forward powerfully, purposefully and passionately, ‘Den vrede makt’ being the irrepressible Trondheim duo’s fourth full-length album
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GJENDØD – LIVSKRAMPER LP (Osmose Productions)
After the relative calm of ‘I utakt med verden’, Gjendød returns triumphantly with fierce fifth full-length ‘Livskramper’. Can’t really say
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NUCLEARHAMMER – XAOS TENAWAS – DEMO MMXXIII LP (Nuclear War Now!)
Canadian Black / Death Metal insurgents Nuclearhammer return to the frontline after an-almost-decade-long ceasefire with ‘Xaos Tenawas – Demo MMXXIII’,
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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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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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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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