ANNIHILATUS: Exterminate
Year: 2026Label: Bestial Burst Finnish Annihilatus have a long history behind them, but not a very long discography. Since their inception in 1999, the group have released only three albums, a mini-album and some sundries. One obvious explanation might be … Continue reading ANNIHILATUS: Exterminate
ALLA XUL ELU: No Masters
Year: 2026Label: Long Live Evil I wonder… is there a jab in a certain direction in the title of this album? Might Alla Xul Elu have some twisted turns of phrase to direct against some former co-operation partners? Ah, fuck … Continue reading ALLA XUL ELU: No Masters
CULTIST: Spiritual Atrophy
Year: 2026Label: Awakening Records/Futhark Records Here’s a group with an unfortunate name – Metal Archives knows three other artists named Cultist plus a small throng of alternate spellings, Discogs knows six Cultists, some with releases antedatring the current Cultist. Especially … Continue reading CULTIST: Spiritual Atrophy
FUNERAL PILE: Summoning
Year: 2026Label: self-released I’ll be honest, I almost skipped this album in my promo queue because the name of the band sounded silly. I know, that’s a stupid reason to ignore a band, but when you’ve got hundreds and hundreds … Continue reading FUNERAL PILE: Summoning
On Man and Nature: musings on Tradition and Nature in Seyyed Hossein Nasr’s philosophy
Seyyed Hossein Nasr (b. 1933) is a proponent of the Traditionalist school of philosophy, and one of the most prominent Islamic scholars active within western academia. In his book Traditionalism: The Radical Project for Restoring Sacred Order, Mark Sedgwick places … Continue reading On Man and Nature: musings on Tradition and Nature in Seyyed Hossein Nasr’s philosophy
MAYHEM: Liturgy Of Death
Year: 2026Label: Century Media Seven years ago, Norwegian black metal pioneers Mayhem released their sixth studio album, Daemon (review). The album saw them abandon the decidedly progressive and experimental territory they’d explored on previous albums Esoteric Warfare (2014) and Ordo … Continue reading MAYHEM: Liturgy Of Death
From the Vaults #24: Black Harmony
If you were Finnish and into black metal around the turn of the millennium, most likely you were familiar with Thyrane. And if you were from anywhere else, odds are you never heard of them, let alone heard them. Such … Continue reading From the Vaults #24: Black Harmony
From the Vaults #23: Voice Of A Generation
UK punk/oi! band Blitz rather perfectly embody the passionate but brief lifespan of the original oi! movement. It gathered up speed quickly, went fast for a moment, but crashed and burned all too soon. Think about Blitz’s career as an … Continue reading From the Vaults #23: Voice Of A Generation
ODIR Newsletter #1: The Ideas of March
Welcome to the first edition of the ODIR Newsletter, which is meant to be a more-or-less monthly publication, wherein we highlight not only stuff from the ODIR website, but also interesting and relevant news from friends and others. We live … Continue reading ODIR Newsletter #1: The Ideas of March
ENNUI: Qroba
Year: 2026Label: Meuse Music Records Funeral doom has always been one of those genres that are great on paper, but in practice the execution often leaves something to be desired. Truth be told, just about the only album that fully … Continue reading ENNUI: Qroba
Only Death Is Real 