AKITSA – SANG NORDIQUE 2LP (Hospital Productions)
Initially presented to the unsuspecting, ignorant masses in 2002, Akitsa’s sophomore full-length offering of intolerant, separatist Nordic Black Metal from
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ORDEM SÂTANICA / ADYTUM – ORDEM SÂTANICA / ADYTUM LP (Satanik Requiem / Signal Rex)
In the truest tradition of uncompromising, raw, underground Black Metal comes this superb split between noisy Portuguese veterans Ordem Satânica
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HATE FOREST – HOUR OF THE CENTAUR (Osmose Productions)
Just like that, when least expected, Hate Forest returns from the dead. After 16 years of silence, I assumed this
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GJENDØD – ANGREP (Hellthrasher Productions)
Single- and bloody-minded Norwegian duo Gjendød have spewed forth a veritable slew of releases over the past four years, third
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VOTHANA – CHÍNH SÁCH VŨ LỰC TÀN BẠO 2LP (Final Agony Records / Darker Than Black Records)
Originally self-released on cassette 15 years ago, with the addendum ‘Demo III’, Vothana’s 48-minute meisterwerk of radical, non-conformist Black Metal,
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COLD EARTH – YOUR MISERY, MY TRIUMPH LP (Sol Records)
Comprising four-fifths of Thorybos (all of whom are also active in numerous other Sol Records cabals) , Cold Earth was
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MYSTRUIN – CALCINATION (Lamech Records)
Building on the promise demonstrated on their debut full-length, ‘Gånget Äro Ljuset’, six years hitherto, mystical Swedish quintet Mystruin deliver
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“THE MANY HARDSHIPS CONSPIRING AGAINST US HAVE ONLY MADE US HUNGRIER AND MORE FURIOUS” – ACERBUS (ONDSKAPT)
At the grim denouement of an utterly repugnant calendar year that saw mankind cast for perpetuity into all-consuming darkness, it
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VOIDSPHERE – TO SENSE | TO PERCEIVE LP (Amor Fati Productions)
A new consignment of ПРАВА КОЛЛЕКТИВ releases has been conjured from the interstellar ether and, while I enjoy all the
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INQUISITION – BLACK MASS FOR A BLACK GRAVE (Agonia Records)
‘Black Mass For A Mass Grave’ is a surprise on multiple levels. First of all, I presumed Inquisition had ceased
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MARE – SPHERES LIKE DEATH / THRONE OF THE THIRTEENTH WITCH LP (Terratur Possessions)
An essential document for those who cherish ritualistic, occult Black Metal, this release collates the two iconic, trailblazing EPs which
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SVARTSYN – REQUIEM (Carnal Records)
With nary a glimmer of light nor salvation, Svartsyn’s harrowing and unholy tenth full-length, ‘Requiem’, unceremoniously flings open the floodgates
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ONDSKAPT – GRIMOIRE ORDO DEVUS (Osmose Productions)
A wicked, malevolent prelude introduces the fourth Ondskapt curse before ‘Semita Sinistram’ guides us contemptuously towards the left-hand path and
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OMINOUS RESURRECTION – JUDGEMENT LP (Terratur Possessions)
Having enjoyed Ominous Resurrection’s 2014 debut full-length, ‘Omniscient’, albeit without quite being blown away, I had sort of forgotten about
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AKHLYS – MELINOË (Debemur Morti Productions)
The disorientating, debilitating nightmare resumes five years on as Akhlys returns with third full-length ‘Melinoë’, a terrifyingly lucid and lurid
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