SLIDHR – WHITE HART! (Debemur Morti Productions)
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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Black Metal Reviews
URFAUST – UNTERGANG (Ván Records)
After 20 years of ritualistic intoxication, Urfaust in no more. The inebriated Dutch duo have unexpectedly called time with seventh
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DROWNING THE LIGHT – VIOLET MERCURY & MOONLIGHT SORCERY EP (Dark Adversary Productions)
Channelled most conspicuously under the infamous Drowning the Light banner, Azgorh’s dedication / contribution to true underground Black Metal across
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DIABOLICAL FULLMOON – RESURRECTION OF THE ANCIENT FAITH (UNHOLY REBORN POLISH BLACK METAL ART) LP (Signal Rex)
Thirty years on from the sacred seal of the infamous Temple of Fullmoon, the belligerent, intolerant howl of Poland’s pagan
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CH’AHOM – CAMAZOTZ CULT (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
In these tedious, tiresome times of seemingly-endless, same-sounding, mundane, derivative mediocrity, authentic obscurity has become the Holy Grail. Who can
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CLANDESTINE BLAZE – RESACRALIZE THE UNKNOWN LP (Northern Heritage Records)
With fantastically frigid riffage, frantic drumming and a lone feral howl commences Clandestine Blaze’s twelfth full-length abomination of indignant blackness.
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KOMMODUS – WREATH OF BLEEDING SNOWFALL (Goatowarex)
Three years on from the expansive and audacious self-titled debut and two after the majestic collaboration with Pan-Amerikan Native Front
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COSCRADH – NAHANAGAN STADIAL LP (Invictus Productions)
A cleansing, apocalyptic sonic storm erupts ominously on ‘Nahanagan Stadial’, the debut Coscradh full-length onslaught, and never relents, inexorably obliterating
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IMPETUOUS RITUAL – INIQUITOUS BARBARIK SYNTHESIS (Profound Lore Records)
A swirling maelstrom of unstoppable sonic fury erupts to usher in the fourth Impetuous Ritual full-length and the irrepressible chaos
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CLANDESTINE BLAZE – DELIVERERS OF FAITH LP (Northern Heritage Records)
The fourth filthy Clandestine Blaze album, ‘Deliverers of Faith’, emerged in 2005 and – alongside its equally immense follow-up, ‘Church
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PALE SPEKTRE – BEREFT OF XEROTIC LAYERS LP (Amor Fati Productions / Nuclear War Now! Productions)
Stellar drumming is just one of the many outstanding attributes that enable Pale Spektre’s highly-charged opening full-length shot, ‘Bereft of
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SODALITY – BENEDICTION PART 1 LP (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
The inimitably-evil enunciation of Mark of the Devil dovetails demonically with the macabre musicianship of T. Kaos to startling, inspirational
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DØDSENGEL – BAB AL ON 2LP (Debemur Morti Productions)
Rewind ten-fourteen years to Dødsengel’s glorious formative years, when the self-proclaimed Norwegian angel of death arrived with murderous intent into
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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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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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