ALLA XUL ELU: Sci Co Volume One
Year: 2015/2025Label: Long Live Evil This year has been an active one for US horrorcore trio Alla Xul Elu. In total, members of AXE released three albums: the group proper’s Gods Of Evil Rise (review), Billy Obey’s Rhymebook Of The … Continue reading ALLA XUL ELU: Sci Co Volume One
HEXVESSEL: Nocturne
Year: 2025Label: Prophecy I’ll be honest: prior to this album, I’d heard maybe one song by Hexvessel, so this review isn’t exactly based on an in-depth knowledge of their past discography. But then again, up until recently, the band played … Continue reading HEXVESSEL: Nocturne
SEPULCHRAL CURSE: Crimson Moon Evocation
Year: 2025Label: Dark Descent Records There’s a bit of a death metal revival going on in Finland. A lot of new bands are popping up, many of them with young musicians; some are still in their teens, some are in … Continue reading SEPULCHRAL CURSE: Crimson Moon Evocation
Vil, Ike: CHASING THE GREEN DRAGON
Year: 2025Publisher: Star Regulus PressAvailable in: English A.W. Yrjänä, lyricist and vocalist of iconic Finnish rock band CMX once said in a documentary on occultism something to the effect of all great occultists also being con men. This was not … Continue reading Vil, Ike: CHASING THE GREEN DRAGON
Grönhagen, Yrjö von: HIMMLER’S SECRET SOCIETY
Year: 1948/2025Publisher: Star Regulus PressOriginal title: Himmlerin salaseuraAvailable in: English, Finnish and possibly other languages During the summer of 1935, a young Finnish student of the Sorbonne in Paris decides to travel from France to Finland by foot. He ends … Continue reading Grönhagen, Yrjö von: HIMMLER’S SECRET SOCIETY
Talking elitism and appeal with The Chamberlain
Finnish The Chamberlain’s debut album Draconian Magick (review) came pretty much like a bolt out of the blue in early 2025. We admit, perhaps to our own detriment, that here at ODIR we’d never even heard of them. All of … Continue reading Talking elitism and appeal with The Chamberlain
LUPUSVIR: .//repeated_grey_fields
Year: 2020Label: self-released We return to Brazilian Lupusvir’s eccentric sounds. Although in a somewhat backwards fashion: this is actually the one man project’s first release, and .//passport_to_filg4ia (review) their second. I don’t think it matters too much. Both releases are … Continue reading LUPUSVIR: .//repeated_grey_fields
DIMHOLT: MetaForm
Year: 2025Label: self-released Whilst listening to MetaForm, Bulgarian Dimholt’s new album, I returned to my review of their previous album Epistēmē (here). I find that most all I wrote in the review still applies to the band, and describes quite … Continue reading DIMHOLT: MetaForm
BELTANE FIRE: White Stag
Year: 2025Label: Bluelight Records Earlier this year, in our From the Vaults series, we covered British Beltane Fire’s sole album Different Breed (here). Beltane Fire is the fourth moniker of the band, best known and loved as neobilly act The … Continue reading BELTANE FIRE: White Stag
LUPUSVIR: .//Passport_to_filg4ia
Year: 2022Label: self-released I actually have a tenuous link to Brazilian Lupusvir. We both appeared on the 2024 digital-only compilation Knife City. Beyond that, I didn’t know much about the one man project, except for a vague understanding that it … Continue reading LUPUSVIR: .//Passport_to_filg4ia
Only Death Is Real 