GJENDØD – LIVSKRAMPER LP (Osmose Productions)
After the relative calm of ‘I utakt med verden’, Gjendød returns triumphantly with fierce fifth full-length ‘Livskramper’. Can’t really say
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FUNERAL WINDS – STIGMATA MALI (Osmose Productions)
No respite from Funeral Winds. If anything, the ferocious offensive against the holy trinity is becoming more fearsome with the
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MINENWERFER – FEUERWALZE (Osmose Productions)
After four years (fittingly) of quiet on the western front, Californian warmongers Minenwerfer return with a fresh and devastating wave
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HATE FOREST – INNERMOST (Osmose Productions)
Hate Forest is an institution in itself and each new release from Black Metal’s most notorious history teacher constitutes an
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VORTEX OF END – ABHORRENT FERVOR (Osmose Productions)
Vortex of End have streamlined and honed their attack on fourth full-length, ‘Abhorrent Fervor’, which delivers a more refined 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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HATE FOREST – HOUR OF THE CENTAUR (Osmose Productions)
Just like that, when least expected, Hate Forest returns from the dead. After 16 years of silence, I assumed this
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ONDSKAPT – GRIMOIRE ORDO DEVUS (Osmose Productions)
A wicked, malevolent prelude introduces the fourth Ondskapt curse before ‘Semita Sinistram’ guides us contemptuously towards the left-hand path and
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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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VORTEX OF END – ARDENS FVROR 2LP (Osmose Productions)
Released last summer, when the world was still full of hope and wonder, Vortex of End’s third full-length offering is
Read moreLIBER NULL – I, THE SERPENT LP (Osmose Productions)
Even though it is, to all intents and purposes, shamelessly derivative and at times comes across like a poor man’s
Read moreTHE OMINOUS CIRCLE – APPALLING ASCENSION 2LP (Osmose Productions)
Another new band concealing their identities by covering their faces in Mgła-style masks (as if anybody actually cares who they
Read moreBESTIA ARCANA – TO ANABAINON EK TES ABYSSU 2LP (Osmose Productions)
Bestia Arcana features current and ex members of Nightbringer and it is by no means a sweeping generalisation to suggest
Read moreILDJARN / HATE FOREST – THOSE ONCE MIGHTY FALLEN 2LP (Osmose Productions)
This split album comes as a welcome surprise. Both these acts have ceased to be, so the excavation of lost
Read moreVOMITCHAPEL – THE HOUSE OF THE LORD DESPOILED (Osmose Productions)
Vomitchapel is Ghoat, the same person responsible for acts such as Hills of Sefiroth, Father Befouled and the rather magnificent
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