AORATOS – GODS WITHOUT NAME LP (Debemur Morti Productions)
Aoratos – the latest fully-formed, bastard protuberance from that ghastly Nightbringer organism, the foul, ugly, crippled half-brother of Akhlys and
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ALTARAGE – ENDINGHENT LP (Season Of Mist Underground Activists)
‘Nihl’ boldly announced the arrival of Altarage as a potent force and its follow-up, ‘Endinghent’, was another remarkable record from
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FLOODED CHURCH OF ASMODEUS – PISS SOAKED CHURCH OF THE WRONG: A TOTAL HOLOCAUST OF THOSE WHO TURN THE OTHER CHEEK LP (Final Agony Records)
Filthy, diseased black noise with Harald Mentor’s grubby fingerprints and carefree whiskey stains all over it, like incriminating, irrefutable evidence
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ALTARAGE – THE APPROACHING ROAR LP (Season of Mist Underground Activists)
Mutating, strengthening, conquering, like some rogue artificial intelligence or insatiable, unstoppable bacteria, the clone more potent and dangerous than the
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DEGREDO – A NOITE DOS TEMPOS 2LP (Harvest Of Death)
From some otherworldly purgatory of insufferable misery arrives Degredo’s tortured, tormented, soul-wrenching debut volume of vexed verses and cursed canticles,
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CLANDESTINE BLAZE – TRANQUILITY OF DEATH LP (Northern Heritage Records)
As Clandestine Blaze’s tenth full-length offering, ‘Tranquility Of Death’, erupts from the barrel, wretched humanity is once more the focus,
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AKITSA – CREDO LP (Hospital Productions)
Akitsa’s wretched, raw, inimitable, punk-infused and wholly emotional take on Black Metal has been an irresistible force in the underground
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HATESPIRIT – AGELESS WILDERNESS LP (Altare Productions)
Across their potent and pungent second full-length, ‘Ageless Wilderness’, Hatespirit invite us to imbibe the intoxicating splendour of Finland’s flawless,
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SVARTIÐAUDI – REVELATIONS OF THE RED SWORD LP (Ván Records)
On sophomore full-length, ‘Revelations Of The Red Sword’, Svartidauði transition seamlessly from the monolithic magmatic emissions that rendered ‘Flesh Cathedral’
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DAKHMA – HAMKAR ATONEMENT 2LP (Iron Bonehead Productions)
More than 70 minutes long, ‘Hamkar Atonement’ is as close to a perfect journey as you could rightfully wish to
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ONE TAIL ONE HEAD – WORLDS OPEN, WORLDS COLLIDE LP (Terratur Possessions)
Infectiously-catchy, slitheringly-serpentine Black Metal with a revealing all-instruments-up-front production that ought not to scale any heights but does abounds in
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NECROS CHRISTOS – DOMEDON DOXOMEDON 3LP (Sepulchral Voice Records)
Necros Christos cracked open the crypt one last time in 2018 to unvault this vast parting package of their instantly-recognisable,
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HUNOK – MEGRENDÍTHETETLENSÉG LP (Werewolf Records)
It was a long time coming but Hunok’s unpronounceable debut full-length got the vinyl treatment during the summer. Suffice to
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ADZALAAN – INTO VERMILION MIRRORS LP (Vrasubatlat)
Releases from the Vrasubatlat stable are invariably excellent and Adzalaan’s debut full-length, ‘Into Vermilion Mirrors’, is yet another worthy addition
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VILKACIS / TURIA – VILKACIS / TURIA LP (Altare Productions)
Both Turia full-lengths are fantastic, so it was exciting to learn that they had recorded a split with Vilkacis, the
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