MONTE PENUMBRA – AS BLADES IN THE FIRMAMENT LP (End All Life Productions / Oration)
Ostensibly a Portuguese-Icelandic alliance thanks to the involvement of one Bjarni Einarsson on drums and Stephen Lockhart (drum recording /
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REBIRTH OF NEFAST / SLIDHR – EX NIHILIO LP (End All Life Productions)
Unleashed upon the pitiful masses all of 13 years ago, ‘Ex Nihilio’ brings together two of Ireland’s most important Black
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IRAE – DANGEROVZ MAGICK ZPELLS FROM THE MESZIAH OF DEATH (Signal Rex)
Something of an outlier or oddity in the vast Irae discography, ‘Dangerovz Magick Zpells From The Mesziah Of Death’ presents
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GRAVE MIASMA – ABYSS OF WRATHFUL DEITIES (Dark Descent Records)
Howling across the aeons, Grave Miasma’s second full-length, ‘Abyss Of Wrathful Deities’, constitutes a devastating discharge of sepulchral Death Metal,
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SPECTRAL WOUND – A DIABOLIC THIRST (Profound Lore Records)
On their superbly-crafted and skilfully-executed third full-length, Spectral Wound celebrate Black Metal’s most essential spirit of decadence, but they have
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“IT WAS KIND OF ANNOYING THAT WE HAD THREE GREAT SHOWS AND THEN SUDDENLY EVERYTHING CLOSES DOWN” – FRED ESTBY (DISMEMBER)
Reborn in blasphemy, legendary Swedish Death Metal pioneers Dismember completed one of the most-anticipated comebacks in extreme music history when
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“TO PERPETUATE THE HUMAN SEED IN EXISTENCE IS IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE MANKIND IS DOOMED TO FAIL … SOONER OR LATER IT WILL HAPPEN” – ALTARAGE
With ominously-titled, nightmare-inducing fourth full-length detonation, ‘Succumb’ – a violent expulsion of existential horror conceived of the mundane, weak and
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ANTAEUS – DE PRINCIPII EVANGELIKUM LP (Osmose Productions)
For whatever reason, I’ve been devoting an ever-increasing amount of my rather scarce listening time to older albums in recent
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ALTARAGE – SUCCUMB (Season of Mist Underground Activists)
First off, to be clear, this is not music, neither in the conventional sense nor in any other way. What
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PESTIS CULTUS – PESTIS CULTUS LP (Signal Rex)
In the three decades that I’ve been listening to Black Metal I don’t remember experiencing a lull like the current
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