UNANIMATED: Ancient God Of Evil Release year: 1995/2008Label: No Fashion Records/Regain Records As is well-known, and has been established even on this site a number of times, Sweden in the 90’s was a true hotbed for death metal. Unanimated, formed … Continue reading The ancient evils of Unanimated
ROME: Flowers From Exile Release year: 2009/2019Label: Trisol/Strict In 2009, Luxembourgian neofolk-project Rome, alias of Jerome Reuter, released their fourth album, Flowers From Exile. In the decade since, not only has the album risen to become a genuine modern classic … Continue reading Rome’s decade of exile
ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO: Let’s Play (Two Girls & A Goat) Release year: 2019Label: Out Of Line When I reviewed Swedish Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio’s teaser EP for this album ( Ménage À Quatre, said review here), during summer, I predicted the … Continue reading Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio playing with roses and goats
V/A: Brutal Africa – The Heavy Metal Cowboys Of Botswana Release year: 2019Label: Svart Records Back when I started getting into metal, in the mid-90’s, there were a great deal of exotic places metal music could come from. With the … Continue reading With brutality from Botswana
MAYHEM: Wolf’s Lair Abyss Release year: 1997/2019Label: Misanthropy Records/Soulseller Records Back in 1997, Mayhem’s comeback recordings without guitarist, founder, composer and band leader Euronymous must have seemed like a travesty to many involved in the scene – despite including three … Continue reading A return to Mayhem’s abyss
ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO: Ménage À Quatre Release year: 2019Label: Out Of Line I have long been a fan of neofolk, and the artist that got me into the genre originally was Swedish Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio, whose split with Italian Spiritual … Continue reading Foursomes with Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio
TOMB MOLD: The Bottomless Perdition + The Moulting Release year: 2017Label: Blood Harvest If Tomb Mold’s debut, Primordial Malignity (which we reviewed here), reminds one of a mixture of the guttural catacombs of Pillard-era Incantation and the demented strangeness of … Continue reading The moulting of Tomb Mold
