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
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
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
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
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
Year: 2026Label: self-released Is the New Wave of Traditional Doom Metal still a thing? Probably to some extent, though not as much as in the heyday of Reverend Bizarre and the many who trod in their footsteps. It is, after … Continue reading DROWNING WITCH: s/t
Year: 2025Label:Warade No, this isn’t a new Ordo Rosarius Equilibrium album. It’s been a while since Nihilist Notes (review) was released – four years, in fact, so we’re starting to get hungry for something new. Instead, this is a two-in-one … Continue reading ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO: 4 Equilibrium & Nihilism
Year: 2026Publisher: Black Front PressAvailable in: English As established by Aleksandar Sazdovski in his intriguing analysis of Blood Axis in this essay anthology, neofolk is – or at least can be seen – as more than just a form of … Continue reading Southgate, Troy (ed.): EUROPA CALLING!
Year: 2026Label: The Circle Music If you’ve studied your black metal history, the combination of Greece and Magus should bring to mind a legendary character within the genre. I am, of course, referring to Magus Wampyr Daoloth, a scene legend … Continue reading THE MAGUS: Daemonosophia
I’ve waxed poetical about the mythical days of yore, when not every nugget of information was available online and us teens of the 90’s would buy albums solely based on the album cover, title and the track names. See for … Continue reading From the Vaults #22: Into The Woods Of Belial
Only Death Is Real 