Back in the mid 2000s Norwegian Black Metal was but a faint memory. With the originators treading different paths from where it all started, a craving for what once was needed to be refueled. A small group of individuals from Trondheim, Nidaros found each other and reignited that flame. Through the same malicious intent of […]
The terrific debut full-length by this Spanish band. The Death Metal mongrels collectively known as Intolerance hail from Zaragoza, the same city that Ataraxy are natives of. Spawned back in 2015, this quartet’s intent is to pay homage to timeless Death Metal and the fetid stench that exuded from the malicious tones of the bands […]
Hailing from the always fertile Mexican death metal scene, SUMMONING DEATH began in early 2010 with the idea of playing death-doom metal in the classic Swedish and Finnish veins. first official EP. Titled A Traumatic Night of The Creeps, the EP focuses themes seen in slasher films of the ’80s, and comprises two new tracks […]
Uprising was wretched from the shadows in 2016 by W. – a founding member of Waldgeflüster – with the release of I. While rooted in the classic tropes and topics of black metal, I already started to deal with social and political issues, which became the main focus on its successor, II, in 2020. II […]
DEAD EARTH is the work of the incredibly prolific Mathias Kamijo. The Swede is most known for long-running black metallers Algaion, but the man also was a live member for Hypocrisy during the latter half of the ’90s and played on Nephenzy Chaos Order’s cult-classic Pure Black Disease among many other endeavors. While Algaion have […]
ollowing 2020’s widely-worshipped “Melinoë”, AKHLYS, the globe’s premier channelers of abyssal nightmare, return triumphant with six elaborate and exhilarating new tracks of pure Black Metal terror. Drawing from esoteric and mythical traditions, where the land of dreams is placed within the darkness of the underworld, arises the “House of the Black Geminus”. Through labyrinthine halls, […]
The highly anticipated 5th full-length by this Italian band. By now, those who follow our dark deeds should be well familiar with Valgrind. Despite forming all the way back in 1996 and releasing three demos and an EP before going on hiatus in 2002, it was the 2012 debut album, “Morning Will Come No More” […]
ANCESTRAL SOUNDS”, the second longplayer from PESTKRAFT, who are preparing to spread the deadly plague of their relentless and violent yet sublime and mystically charged Black Metal across Europe and the world from Valencia, Spain. At the center of PESTKRAFT’s traditional, but also compositionally unexpected sounds, are the expressive, infernal vocals of band founder and […]
RUNESPELL aesthetic is so etched in iron, so forged in blood, that this mystical & mesmerizing soundworld takes on its own life. And so it goes with the brand-new mini-album Sentinels of Time. Serving as something of a companion to the monolithic ‘n’ majestic Verses in Regicide, Sentinels of Time is every inch as epic […]
VOIMATON is a word of Finnish origin, which loosely translated means “powerless.” Fittingly, the band’s lyrical themes center around the failings of humanity, nihilism, and feeling powerless in the face of natures cruel inflictions upon mankind. Even more fittingly, VOIMATON’s brand of death-doom blends crushing traces of Cianide and Saint Vitus with the off-kilter weirdness […]
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