FUIL NA SEANCHOILLE – HUNGER (Tour De Garde)
I get a bit pissed off with tapes sometimes and find myself thinking that perhaps I’ll stop buying them. Of
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BLACK CILICE – SUMMONING THE NIGHT LP (Altare Productions)
Black Cilice’s debut full-length ‘A Corpse, A Temple’ was really fantastic, so I bought the follow-up with total confidence. An
Read moreWELTER IN THY BLOOD – TODESTRIEB (Dusktone)
Know the way a knee in the balls or a smack in the jaw can be refreshing? How it can
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SARGEIST – THE REBIRTH OF A CURSED EXISTENCE (World Terror Committee)
As we wait patiently for a new Sargeist album, this stop-gap release is more than adequate to keep hunger at
Read moreWATAIN – THE WILD HUNT (Century Media Records)
The title track on Watain’s fifth full-length sounds – at best – like a hybrid of Europe and Pink Floyd.
Read moreANCIENT RECORDS – DEMO COMPILATION PART 1 LP (Ancient Records)
A couple of minutes into my first listen to this record, I was starting to suspect that it represented a
Read moreTERATISM – LA BAS MLP (Negativity Records)
Sometimes a label pulls out all the stops, presentation-wise, and elevates a release head and shoulders above the competition. (Debemur
Read moreBLOODLINE – HATE PROCESSION LP (Blut & Eisen Productions)
‘Hate Procession’ initially saw the cold light of day six years after the amazing ‘Werewolf Training’ (in 2009, to be
Read moreIRAE – RITES OF UNHOLY DESTRUCTION LP + 7” (Discipline)
This compilation album has been vomited forth to mark Irae’s tenth anniversary. Thirteen songs have been re-recorded from across the
Read moreHÄDANFÄRD – SMUTSIGA SINNEN LP (Ancient Records / Afgrundsvisioner)
The incredibly-prolific Ancient Records has just released a new batch of albums – all on vinyl, as ever – and
Read moreKAEVUM – KOSMOS ERWACHE (Darker Than Black Records)
On ‘Kosmos Erwache’, we are presented with almost an hour’s worth of demo material from excellent Norwegian horde Kaevum. The
Read moreMALÉFICES – ASARLAI (Versets Noirs)
‘Asarlai’ is the third demo cassette from Maléfices and it’s the second one I managed to get my hands on.
Read moreYASS-WADDAH – CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT EP (self-released)
Sometimes the best things come from the most-unexpected sources. Embryonic Italian Black Metal quartet Yass-Waddah have crafted a very enjoyable
Read moreDARKENED NOCTURN SLAUGHTERCULT – NECROVISION LP (War Anthem Records)
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult are clearly here for the long haul. ‘Necrovision’ is their fifth full-length and there’s no sign of
Read moreCREPUSCULUM – ILLUMINATUS (Odium Records)
I wonder sometimes is it elitist and snobby of me to constantly harp on about vinyl when there are plenty
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