Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Belgian Vidna Obmana and Polish Zoharum continue their joint effort to unearth rarities and unreleased tracks from the former’s archives. Where the first installment in this series (reviewed here) spanned the years 1990 to 1998, this second … Continue reading VIDNA OBMANA: Twilight Of Perception Redux: Volume Two 1995-2002
Year: 2025Label: Far From… Records Oh, great! Another one of those albums. Those albums, which are such a potpourri of styles and genres, that trying to describe it is an exercise in futility. In other words, a reviewer’s dream. I … Continue reading NAPSORVADÁS: Without Idols
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Whilst at first the name Scrotum+N. might strike you as confounding, upon closer inspection it turns out to be quite informative. For, you see, this is a joint venture of Polish Scrotum and Italian N. Out of … Continue reading SCROTUM+N.: …Dead Sessions…
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum/FYC Records What’s in a name? That’s a question I think we’ve asked before. This time around, the answer is: surprisingly much. At least when it comes to the name of the album at hand. “Cinematic Rituals” is … Continue reading INSCISSORS: The Wordless God II (And Other Cinematic Rituals)
Legendary heavy metal singer, front man and larger-than-life persona Ozzy Osbourne (1948-2025) passed away yesterday at the age of 76. News of his passing came mere weeks after his final concert, the massive Back To The Beginning event in Birmingham, … Continue reading In memoriam: Ozzy Osbourne
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Vidna Obmana, who we’ve covered a number of times, may have been laid to rest about 20 years ago, but the creative mind behind it gets no rest. Testament to this is the sheer volume of releases … Continue reading DIRK SERRIES: Zonal Disturbances II
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Last time we encountered Swedish Jarl, we talked about Receptor Radiation (read review). This time around, we stick to the same level of biology, and talk about synapses with Synapse Variation Report. The thematic similarity is no … Continue reading JARL: Synapse Variation Report
Year: 2025Label: Bestial Burst Famously, the old saying proclaims that third time’s the charm. Finnish black metal trio Moon Oracle prove that with their third album. In our reviews of their two earlier albums (here and here) we applauded the … Continue reading MOON ORACLE: Guardians Of The Lunar Spheres
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum This is one of the tricky situations when you’re a reviewer. A live album by a band you’ve never heard before. Live albums quite rarely open up themselves for the newcomer, or are fully representative of how … Continue reading THE HOLY FAMILY: Live Burning, Burning Live
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum You know the old Lovecraftian couplet, “That is not dead which can eternal lie/And with strange aeons even death may die”? Stephen Ah Burroughs of Tunnels Of Ah fame apparently does, or at least proves its veracity. … Continue reading COMICIDE 24: Chronic Transfusion
Only Death Is Real 