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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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 keeps pushing forward powerfully, purposefully and passionately, ‘Den vrede makt’ being the irrepressible Trondheim duo’s fourth full-length album
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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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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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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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As Black Metal moves ever further away from its dangerous, mysterious and antihuman roots, it is perhaps more timely than
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Always a safe bet to deliver quality output from a truly dissident, misanthropic and uncompromising perspective, Akitsa has been to
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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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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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‘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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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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For most of its nigh on 30 years of existence, Blut aus Nord has followed its own path – one
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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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After 20 years of ritualistic intoxication, Urfaust in no more. The inebriated Dutch duo have unexpectedly called time with seventh
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