STAGE FRITE: Behind The Evil Mind Release year: 2022Label: Western Star Records Stage Frite may not exactly be a household name, at least not for the readers of this here website focusing more on the harder, darker side of metal … Continue reading Stage Frite’s evil mind
ARDITI: Emblem Of Victory Release year: 2023Label: Blooddawn Productions Few are names are regarded as highly in the martial industrial scene as Swedish Arditi, who have been in existence for over 25 years and whose debut album Marching On To … Continue reading Emblems of Arditi’s victory
KAARNA: Kultataivaat, hopeaveet, unet helmiäistä Release year: 2022Label: Anima Arctica The eccentric and ever-shifting Kaarna have had a pretty steady release schedule. Since the one-man project’s debut album Comitatus Savolaxiae in 2019, the steady pace has been one album per … Continue reading Kaarna’s reveries under golden skies
DEMON RAID: Last Call Release year: 2022Label: Wreckin’ Bones Records If you are wondering what kind of music Finnish Demon Raid play, you only need take a look at the tracklist. The album kicks off with a nice, slightly tex-mex … Continue reading Last call for the demon raid
ABSOLUTE KEY: The Third Level Of Decay Release year: 2022Label: Signal Rex Previously, we reviewed Finnish one man act Absolute Key’s Sundust (here), calling its combination of industrial and black metal “an album of intriguingly twisted esoteric electronics”. The prolific … Continue reading Keys to the three levels of decay
ABSOLUTE KEY: Sundust Release year: 2022Label: Nekrogoat Heresy Productions Describing something as a mixture of industrial and black metal will most likely conjure up all kinds of rather disparate images in people’s minds. Some will think of machinized beats and … Continue reading Absolute keys to fire and dust
ANZILLU: Ex Nihilo Release year: 2023Label: M-Theory Audio Those of you who frequent this site – all two of you – have probably noticed that we cover thrash metal relatively rarely. The obvious reason for that is that out of … Continue reading From nothing, an abomination
THE AGGRAVATED: Whole 9 Yards Release year: 2022Label: D-Fens Records When a band from the US approaches us by describing their music as hardcore “on the old school side of things”, they’ve got my interest. As far as punk rock … Continue reading Nine yards of aggravation
DEATH IN JUNE: Nada-ized! Release year: 2022Label: New European Recordings I don’t remember exactly when, but it was already a couple of years ago that I stumbled upon Miro Snejdr’s retrosynth-style remixes of older Death In June tracks online. I … Continue reading Death in Juno
It’s been a while since we did one of these. In fact, looks like in all of Only Death Is Real’s history, we’ve only done one year round-up. High time for a second one, don’t you think? So, here are … Continue reading A year in summation: 2022
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