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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Black Metal Reviews
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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FUNERAL WINDS – STIGMATA MALI (Osmose Productions)
No respite from Funeral Winds. If anything, the ferocious offensive against the holy trinity is becoming more fearsome with the
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NOCTURNAL DEPARTURE – CLANDESTINE THEURGY (Hells Headbangers Records)
Ghastly ghoulish growls and soul-shredding shrieks of the damned vie for supremacy on the scathing surface of ‘Clandestine Theurgy’, the
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MINENWERFER – FEUERWALZE (Osmose Productions)
After four years (fittingly) of quiet on the western front, Californian warmongers Minenwerfer return with a fresh and devastating wave
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KRINGA – ALL STILLBORN FIRES, LICK MY HEART (Terratur Possessions)
Casting seven sorcerous spells from the godforsaken outpost that is the eastern realm, the inimitable, trailblazing channellers of outlandish auditory
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OBSKURITATEM – AROGANTNI NIHILIZAM 2LP (Black Gangrene Productions)
In these inane times of instant gratification and ever-diminishing attention spans, where the masses of docile human cattle are too
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NÉCROPOLE – YOGA (Northern Heritage Records)
I feared Amertume might drop completely off-grid (in terms of releasing new music) after laying Caverne to rest with the
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NOENUM – HERESIARCH (Northern Heritage Records)
Noenum delivers a delirious dose of glorious, majestic, arcane Black Metal mercury on debut full-length, ‘Heresiarch’. What the Finnish duo
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HATE FOREST – INNERMOST (Osmose Productions)
Hate Forest is an institution in itself and each new release from Black Metal’s most notorious history teacher constitutes an
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BLACK DEATH CULT – DIASPORA LP (Profound Lore Records)
Black / Death Metal doesn’t get much more surreal and out there than Black Death Cult’s frankly deranged second fantastical
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MISÞYRMING – MEÐ HAMRI (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
Contemplating the essence and linearity or otherwise of the glass-ceiling-breaking third Misþyrming full-length ‘Með hamri’, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr’s oft-quoted observation
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SATANIC WARMASTER / CLANDESTINE BLAZE – CLANDESTINE BLAZE / SATANIC WARMASTER LP (Northern Heritage Records)
Twenty years ago, Mikko Aspa and Werwolf joined forces to create one of the Black Metal underground’s truly great split
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THY DARKENED SHADE / AMESTIGON / INCONCESSUS LUX LUCIS / SHAARIMOTH – SAMAELILITH: A CONJUNCTION OF THE FIREBORN 2LP (World Terror Committee)
The cursed history of Black Metal is embellished with many outstanding examples of exceptional splits and the immense four-way collaboration
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DIABOLI – PAGAN GODS RISE (Darker Than Black Records)
Arriving without warning, the ninth full-length recording of cult Finnish force Diaboli marks 30 years of spreading uncompromising underground art
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