DIABOLI – PAGAN GODS RISE (Darker Than Black Records)
Arriving without warning, the ninth full-length recording of cult Finnish force Diaboli marks 30 years of spreading uncompromising underground art
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GJENDØD – SKYGGER FRA DØDSRIKET LP (Darker Than Black Records)
Collating the material from Gjendød’s fourth and fifth demos, ‘Dødsrikets Pinsler’ and ‘Død Manns Skygge’, both of which were recorded
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VOTHANA – CHÍNH SÁCH VŨ LỰC TÀN BẠO 2LP (Final Agony Records / Darker Than Black Records)
Originally self-released on cassette 15 years ago, with the addendum ‘Demo III’, Vothana’s 48-minute meisterwerk of radical, non-conformist Black Metal,
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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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DROWNING THE LIGHT / VAMPYRIC BLOOD – DROWNING IN THE VAMPYRIC SACRAMENT OF THE IMMORTALS LP (Darker Than Black Records / Dark Adversary Productions)
While I’m not exactly fanatical about gothic, romantic, vampyric and / or melodic Black Metal, there are a few exceptional
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GJENDØD – EVIG SVART HAT LP (Darker Than Black Records)
‘Evig Svart Hat’ collates nine of the ten tracks from Gjendød’s first three demos – namely ‘Gjendød’, ‘Havet Tar’ and
Read moreWHITE MEDAL – LYKE WAKE LP (Darker Than Black Records / Legion Blotan Records & Distribution)
White Medal’s second full-length, ‘Lyke Wake’, is really fantastic from start to finish. George Proctor has been responsible for some
Read moreRECLUSE – STILLBIRTH IN BETHLEHEM LP (Darker Than Black Records)
This is astonishingly great. Nasty, dirty, disorientating music complemented by twisted, possessed vocals that could have been recorded in an
Read moreNORDVREDE – CONFRONTATION LP (Darker Than Black Records)
The vinyl issue – and only edition currently available – of Nordvrede’s fifth full-length comes cased within a heavy gatefold
Read moreVÖEDTÆMHTËHACTÅTT / NEKROKRIST SS – I AM THE CHAOS, THE ABYSS AND THE GLOOM LP (Darker Than Black Records)
On the very same day as this, Vöedtæmhtëhactått’s collaboration with Nekrokrist SS also surfaced on vinyl. We get pretty much
Read moreVÖEDTÆMHTËHACTÅTT / MAQUAHUITL – WITHOUT VEILS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS LP (Darker Than Black Records)
On ‘Without Veils Of Righteousness’, the unpronounceable pair Vöedtæmhtëhactått and Maquahuitl each offer forth four cuts of raw, primitive and
Read moreAZELISASSATH – EVIL MANIFESTATIONS AGAINST MANKIND LP (Darker Than Black Records)
Some albums arrive like a bolt from the fucking blue. Without neither warning, fanfare nor hype; like a bad dream.
Read moreHÅLVÄG – HÅLVÄG (Darker Than Black Records)
Hålväg’s self-titled debut full-length arrived amid neither fanfare nor hype last summer and I decided that I was going to
Read moreBILSKIRNIR – WOTAN REDIVIVUS LP (Darker Than Black Records)
My long-suffering regular reader (hey, Phil!) will no doubt have detected a (welcome?) slowdown in activity in recent weeks and
Read moreGRAUSAMKEIT – CHRISTENSCHMÄHUNG LP (Darker Than Black / Final Agony Records)
On so many levels, ‘Christenschmähung’ is one of the worst records I’ve ever bought. The music on this album is
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