There is no hat-trick, no melting away of sub-genre constructs, no obscurant magickry assembled on Saint Petersburg, Russia-based […]
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An endless feast served for ravens and wolves, the early Middle Ages-set clashes over turf, serf and settlement […]
Today we have the privilege of sharing an early stream of the debut full-length album from Russia-based black […]
Ζεὺς καταχθόνιος — When mortals strike their hands down upon the soil and invoke him by oaths, curses […]
Though it took a decade of trial-and-error, futility and recompense to arrive upon a well-realized point of intent […]
A night-bound mirage borne from fading internal light and the suffocating flurries of the northern extremes St. Petersburg, […]
A combination of inaccessible or limited run vinyl-only releases and a tradition of severe Russophobia within heavy metal […]
“If freedom of the will were presupposed, every human action would be an inexplicable miracle — an effect […]
Princely tyranny from most reviled Third Rome, shadow brutality set upon the unwitting cult ensures there will never […]
Persistent, unanimously flooded, and regionally defining as the major boon of melodic death metal acts across Scandinavia might’ve […]
What exactly St. Petersburg, Russia-based extreme metal quartet Second to Sun intends to be is either intentionally amorphous […]
I’ve compiled this list not as a “best of” for the wide blanket of doom metal in 2019 […]
The cosmonaut is mercilessly grounded by the rotten maze of corruption a limiting and death-obsessed society provides. He, […]
You can see the red blood and clotted organs flung high and wet in the daylight of the […]
Formed in 2017 under the name Openmindead this Moscow, Russia based technical death/thrash metal project should feature some […]
The heavy eyelids of the densely populated European black metal massif barely appear to have batted at the […]
Vladimir, Russia based progressive thrash metal band КГБ (Комите́т Госуда́рственной Безопа́сности) aka KGB represent the tip of a […]
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
Here’s one of several thrash releases from 2017 that I overlooked as the end of summer saw a […]
In 2018 it is easy to forget that both Entombed and Dismember are largely dead or on life […]
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