Extravagantly set scenes depicting chaos find substance in outsized treatment of mundane patternation: The grind of decaying pavement […]
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Shouting curses at a smoking altar in preparation for their next ceremonial haunt Kiel, Germany-based black metal quintet […]
With the maw of the end cracked open and our monstrous apocalyptic herald-beast in flight so erupts the […]
From pernicious forest spirits to ritual senicide, thralldom and beyond Gävle, Sweden-based epic vikingr metal quartet EREB ALTOR […]
THE TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE MONTH should be self-explanatory, an ordered ranking of ten albums that’d resonated […]
Having spent the better part of six or so years delving deeper into the wellspring of ancient extremist […]
All that is cursed collates and surrounds with every step taken deeper into the intoxicating dark as Uppsala, […]
Nine acts presented in increasing entropic disarray delineate omnispatial pitch black downturn, a disordered and waning equilibrium event […]
There is no hat-trick, no melting away of sub-genre constructs, no obscurant magickry assembled on Saint Petersburg, Russia-based […]
Transmogrified from warriors to wanderers by the alienated thrum of death metal’s latest still-crumbling renaissance Brasília, Brazil-based quintet […]
• SHRT REVWS • This condensed version of short(er) reviews focuses on releases arriving in the second half […]
As if still possessed by the ritual that’d birthed them into existence United States-based quartet BALEFIRE let out […]
Though it might appear that “western” civilization is burning for the sake of all that was felled and […]
Erratically charged yet coherent in their conjuration of both beauteous and bleak tracts of irreverent, mayhemic craft Limburg, […]
Pieced together from bursts of fleeting inspiration, fragments captured in muttering passage from the stasis of sleep ’til […]
• INDEPENDENT RELEASES • These short reviews focus exclusively on new releases from January this year, all of […]
Chopped in half during its inception and rebuilt for freshly violent action Turku, Finland-based death metal quartet CONCRETE […]
Yanked through the process of rotting liquification and fed back into the furnace by the cold hand of […]
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Hidden from plain sight and at work on shadow-and-ghost conjured curses for well over a decade London, England-based […]
