DISMEMBER – LIKE AN EVERFLOWING STREAM 2LP (Back On Black)
An undisputed Death Metal classic if ever there was one, Dismember’s genre-defining ‘Like An Everflowing Stream’ was recorded and mixed
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REVENGE – STRIKE.SMOTHER.DEHUMANIZE LP (Season of Mist Underground Activists)
The world is a steaming, overflowing sewer and Revenge are here to remind us all with their blistering, contempt-filled sixth
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“HUMANKIND WOULD BE BETTER OFF IF RELIGIOUS DOGMAS AND FAITH DISSOLVE ALTOGETHER” – A.L.N. (MIZMOR)
Armed with the empirical evidence provided by hard science, introspective Mizmor creator A.L.N. concluded that god is counterfeit and that
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DIABOLIC OATH – PROFANE DEATH EXODUS (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
Diabolic Oath have crafted a monstrous maelstrom of suffocating, strangulating, all-consuming chaos on their debut full-length, ‘Profane Death Exodus’ –
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FÖRGJORD – LAULU KUOLEMASTA (Werewolf Records)
Returning to Black Metal’s glorious, never-to-be-forgotten roots, ‘Laulu Kuolemasta’ is the sixh full-length from Förgjord, tying in nicely with the
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PRECAMBRIAN – TECTONICS (Primitive Reaction)
It’s a given that any release spearheaded by Roman Saenko – the creative force behind Drudkh, Rattenfänger, Blood Of Kingu,
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BLOOD INCANTATION – HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE HUMAN RACE LP (Century Media Records)
Drawing heavily on the old-school, ancient brilliance of bands like latter-era Death, Morbid Angel and Pestilence as well as the
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“IT WAS A TIME OF SILENCE, A TIME TO REFLECT AND A TIME TO RETURN TO THE ESSENCE OF THINGS” – PORTAE OBSCURITAS
Obscure Austrian darkness dealers Portae Obscuritas used the lockdown to take stock of things and to continue working on their
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ABHOMINE – PROSELYTE PARASITE PLAGUE LP (Osmose Productions / Hells Headbangers Records)
Veteran wreckers Pete Helmkamp and Cazz Grant condense an unmerciful barrage of violence into 23 minutes on Abhomine’s brief but
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GRIFTESKYMFNING – SVART MATERIA LP (Darker Than Black Records)
After nigh on a decade of suitably mysterious silence, Grifteskymfning returned this year with not one but two new albums:
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