“AFTER THE TRIBULATION, THERE WILL BE A NEW RULE” – ORNIAS (SVARTSYN)
As the fragile foundations of western civilisation crumble like chalk and society suffers an ignominious, irreversible collapse, under inexorable attack
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Interviews
“THOSE WHO CLAIM TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING ARE JUST CHARLATANS WITH TOO BIG AN EGO AND SHOULD TAKE AN INJECTION OF DOUBT” – EKLEZJAS’TIK BERZERK [SEKTARISM)
Projecting the most disturbing, redemptive resonances known to man, Sektarism’s corrupted, cathartic conjurations invoke a genuine sense of dread and
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“HERE, IN NORWAY, WE BARELY LOOK AT EACH OTHER WHEN WE MEET AND GREET” – KK (GJENDØD)
With the bludgeoning and bloodied attack that is ‘Angrep’, Gjendød have delivered their most uncompromising and hateful album to date.
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“IT’S NOT UNCOMMON THAT OUR SONGS ARE INSPIRED BY VARIOUS REAL LIFE ATROCITIES OR CERTAIN BRUTAL PARTS OF HORROR MOVIES OR COMICS” – DAVID TORTURDØD (UNDERGANG)
Never was a new Undergang album more welcome than ‘Aldrig I Livet’, the depraved Danes’ captivating fifth full-length regurgitation of
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“WHO WOULD LIKE TO LIVE WITH A THOUSAND EYES ON HIS BACK?” – DRASTUS
Flying contemptuously beneath the whoring, self-gratifying radar and wilfully shunning attention hasn’t prevented Drastus from producing some of the most
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“ALL BLOOD RITES ARE ALIGNED AND THE SACRIFICE FOR THE MASTER SHALL TAKE ITS RIGHTEOUS PLACE” – SATANIZE
On their Christ-crushing, goat-glorifying sixth full length, ‘Baphomet Altar Worship’, Portuguese duo Satanize elevate their trademark bestial and barbaric sonic
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“THE MANY HARDSHIPS CONSPIRING AGAINST US HAVE ONLY MADE US HUNGRIER AND MORE FURIOUS” – ACERBUS (ONDSKAPT)
At the grim denouement of an utterly repugnant calendar year that saw mankind cast for perpetuity into all-consuming darkness, it
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“MOST HUMANS ARE WORTHLESS FLESH ZOMBIES CONSUMED BY THEIR IGNORANCE AND LACK OF CONVICTION” – OMINOUS RESURRECTION
Conceived through mountains of bone and valleys of Death, Ominous Resurrection’s eerily-prophetic and utterly-compelling sophomore full-length, ‘Judgement’, provided a powerful
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“MY ONLY HOPE IS THAT DESPAIR TURNS TO ANGER, WHICH IN TURN SPURS PEOPLE ON TO RESIST THIS TYRANNY” – JOSEPH DEEGAN (SLIDHR)
Cursed with obscene weather, widespread inequality, a crippled health system, crooked politicians, a corrupt economy, steep taxes, alcohol dependency, paedophile
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“MAY EVERYONE LIVE ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN WILL AND DESIRES” – TYRANT (MALUM)
As blasphemous Finnish sect Malum prepare to flagellate the flesh of the shamed fraudster once more with six new spells
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“INSIDE THE FINNISH MAN LIVES THIS DEMON, THE PERKELE, WHO IS JUST WAITING TO GET OUT” – VALGRINDER (FÖRGJORD)
Immortalising in timeless Black Metal malevolence the victims of some of the most appalling atrocities in their nation’s cruel history,
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“I WOULD’VE WELCOMED A MANDATORY EXPOSURE FOR EVERYONE AND ALL OF THIS WOULD’VE BEEN OVER AND DEALT WITH” – SHATRAUG (HORNA)
A quarter of a century on from their maiden recording, the expansive new Horna full-length, ‘Kuoleman Kirjo’, arrives as a
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“WITH ALL THE SUFFERING, PAIN AND EMOTIONAL AGONY WE’VE TO ENDURE ON THE JOURNEY, IT’S BETTER TO FIND SOMETHING THAT BRINGS YOU JOY AND JUST DO THAT OVER AND OVER AGAIN TO THE BEST OF YOUR ABLITIES UNTIL YOU’RE GONE” – BLOODSOAKED NECROVOID
A nightmare conceived of the darkest cosmos, Bloodsoaked Necrovoid’s debut full-length, ‘Expelled Into The Unknown Depths Of The Unfathomable’, is
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“I SUPPOSE IT’S A METAPHOR FOR LIVING WITH A MENTAL ILLNESS, FOR LOSING PART OF ONESELF AND COMING FACE TO FACE WITH THE DARKNESS THAT REMAINS IN ITS PLACE” – PNEUMA HAGION
With ‘Voidgazer’, Pneuma Hagion has delivered a truly harrowing and ghastly debut full-length that bleeds bleakness, despair and alienation. I
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“I DON’T CONSIDER MYSELF A VERY SPIRITUAL OR RELIGIOUS PERSON, SO IN MY MIND IT’S PRETTY ABSURD TO THINK THAT WE’RE NOT OF THE COSMOS” – GARÐAR S. JÓNSSON / ALMYRKVI
A deeply-personal exploration of awe-inspiring, cosmic Black Metal, Almyrkvi represents the singular, interstellar vision of Sinmara guitarist Garðar S. Jónsson,
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