NORTT – ENDELIGT LP (Avantgarde Music)
A full decade after ‘Galgenfrist’, Nortt returns with his fourth full-length and ‘Endeligt’ is as dark and unsettling a dose
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FROZEN GRAVES – FROZEN GRAVES LP (Kuunpalvelus)
Featuring Luxixul Sumering Auter of Cosmic Church, Aura Saturnal and Asymmetry on drums and keyboards as well as Nécropole vocalist
Read moreWROK – DE ONHEILSBODE LP (Heidens Hart Records)
Apologies for this one but there have been many times of late when I listened to Wrok around the clock.
Read moreWOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM – THRICE WOVEN 2LP (Artemisia Records)
Wolves In The Throne Room were a breath of fresh air when they struck with their ground-breaking debut album, ‘Diadem
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SVARTSYN – IN DEATH LP (Agonia Records)
Nineteen years since unleashing his debut full-length under the Svartsyn banner, Ornias delivered his ninth album and first in four
Read moreTETRAGRAMMACIDE – PRIMAL INCINERATORS OF MORAL MATRIX LP (Iron Bonehead Productions)
The vinyl edition of Tetragrammacide’s debut full-length is a thing of true pummeling beauty. Buttressed by a strong gatefold jacket
Read moreNECROBLOOD – COLLAPSE OF THE HUMAN RACE LP (Iron Bonehead Productions)
If you pitched Diocletian, Revenge, Antaeus, Archgoat, ZOM and Portal into a super-Satanic blender and pulverised the contents together to
Read moreHARVEST GULGALTHA – ALTARS OF DEVOTION LP (Nuclear War Now!)
Listening to ‘Altars Of Devotion’, it sounds almost like Harvest Gulgaltha are in my living room hammering out the tracks
Read moreAZELISASSATH – TOTAL DESECRATION OF EXISTENCE LP (Nordisk Kultur)
Azelisassath’s third full-length, ‘Total Desecration Of Existence’, is more depressive content-wise than I recall the first two offerings (‘In Total
Read moreTROLLDOM – AV GUDABLOD RÖD… LP (Nordisk Kultur)
This one is from the enigmatic Ancient Records stable although, for some reason, it’s credited as an independent release rather
Read moreBESTIAL RAIDS – MASTER SATAN’S WITCHERY LP (Nuclear War Now!)
Raucous, pummeling and heavier than a hippo’s balls, Bestial Raids are all about unsophisticated, puerile, subtle-as-a-sledgehammer, bestial, warmongering Black /
Read morePREDATORY LIGHT – PREDATORY LIGHT LP (Invictus Productions / Psychic Violence Records)
I was pretty sure I already reviewed Predatory Light’s split with Vorde but, seeing as I can’t find any trace
Read moreORDER OF DARKNESS – VREJ LP (Altare Productions)
Raw Black Metal has never been in ruder health and, with ‘Vrej’, the dying-earth-scouring Altare Productions has come up with
Read moreRHINOCERVS – RH-07 MLP (Final Agony Records)
This is the third of the much-coveted and hyped Rhinocervs tapes to get the vinyl treatment and I am pretty
Read moreLIBER NULL – I, THE SERPENT LP (Osmose Productions)
Even though it is, to all intents and purposes, shamelessly derivative and at times comes across like a poor man’s
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