CANDELABRUM – NECROTELEPATHY LP (Altare Productions)
‘Necrotelepathy’ is the debut full-length from shadowy Portuguese shaman Candelabrum and it contains two epic rites of raw, occult, otherworldly,
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OSTOTS – HIL ARGI LP (Dead Section Records / Altare Productions)
Hailing from the Basque Country, it’s almost inevitable that Ostots is going to be shit hot. Second full-length ‘Hil Argi’
Read moreNEVOA – THE ABSENCE OF VOID (Altare Productions)
Perhaps this album should have been titled ‘The Absence Of Black Metal’. The third track, ‘Alma’ is utterly shameful –
Read moreOWL’S BLOOD – COLD NIGHT OF MEDITATION LP (Altare Productions / Dead Section Records)
As you can deduce from the smudges all over the cover (damn, they show up really clearly in that photograph),
Read moreWULKANAZ – KAOSNÅJD LP (Altare Productions)
The initial twang of disappointment encountered upon learning that ‘Kaosnåjd’ wasn’t in fact a new full-length proper dissipated as soon
Read moreVETALA – THE LORD OF ETERNITY LP (Altare Productions)
Sickeningly, there is an increasing number of so-called Black Metal bands who seem to place more emphasis on being the
Read moreSATANIZE – BLACK ROTTEN WITCHCRAFT LP (Altare Productions)
Satanize from Portugal is all about unrefined, raw, bestial Black Metal … very much in the tradition of Nuclear War
Read moreTOMHET – SAMBLADE SOTKVÆDEN 2MC (Altare Productions)
Truth be known, I’m not the world’s biggest fan of the cassette format but tapes are a staple diet of
Read moreRAVENMOON SANCTUARY – WINTER DESOLATION OF DEATH LP (Altare Productions)
German label Darker Than Black took care of the CD version of Ravenmoon Sanctuary’s debut full-length and the vinyl edition
Read moreWULKANAZ – HAGLANAUDIZEISAZ LP (Altare Productions)
Wulkanaz’s debut album was originally released on cassette – limited to 147 units – last November and ‘HaglaNaudizEisaz’ now re-emerges
Read moreBLACK 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
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