BLACK LEGIONS: Rise Of Impious Demonolatry Release year: 2019Label: Bestial Burst Italian duo Black Legion wear their influences on their sleeve. The album sleeve, that is: everything about this screams bestial old school black metal. The black and white cover … Continue reading Black legions of impious demonolatry
D APHELIUM: Profetian Om Dygden Och Plikten Release year: 2020Label: Black Market Metal Label/Wolfspell Records Sometimes it seems like the 90’s Swedish black metal scene gets kind of overlooked these days, apart from a few choice names. I mean, Marduk … Continue reading D Aphelium’s prophecies
APOSENTO: Conjuring The New Apocalypse Release year: 2020Label: Xtreem Music Spanish Aposento are one more of the old death metal acts of the country who after a long hibernation have reactivated and released new material via Xtreem Music – there … Continue reading The conjurations of Aposento
TEITANBLOOD: The Baneful Choir Release year: 2019Label: Norma Evangelium Diaboli There’s a whole subtype of extreme metal based on the rabid, bestial black metal of death pioneered by legendary acts such as Beherit and Blasphemy in the late 80’s and … Continue reading A baneful chaos
GRIM FATE: Perished In Torment Release year: 2020Label: Xtreem Records Heavy, lurching old school death/doom is a well that never seems to run dry. The classic sound, which seemingly forever plays second fiddle to the speedier brutal death metal of … Continue reading A grim fate to perish
ANCIENT CEREMONY: Under Moonlight We Kiss Release year: 1997Label: Cacophonous Records Ah, the mid-to-late 90’s. Those were the days I took my first fledgling steps into the world of extreme metal. Naturally, for the day and age, some of the … Continue reading Under moonlight we cheese
PHANTASMAL: Ansaan syntyneet – Ansaan kuolleet Release year: 2019Label: self-released During the noughties, there evolved in Finland a somehow quite distinct form of extreme metal which was neither black, death nor doom, but instead a weird amalgamation of all of … Continue reading Phantasmal trappings
