Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Zoharum is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you gonna get, as Forrest Gump once famously said. Well, he didn’t say that, but were he into writing about music and was on Zoharum’s promo … Continue reading HVAST: Chwasty Polskie
Year: 2025Label: Inverse Records Ah, the noughties. What a decade in Finnish metal that was. Both in the mainstream and in the underground, Finland truly and finally found its footing. It was a decade of unforeseen popularity and success. In … Continue reading MOURNIATY: Musta maa
Year: 2025Label: Rune Serpent Europa All fans of 90’s British experimental/electronic/industrial music – sit up straight and pay attention! You there in the back, who ramble on about apocalyptic folk. And you there by the window, who can’t get enough … Continue reading KATHODOS: Parasomnia: Pavor Nocturnus
Year: 2025Label: Misantropia Records The Swedish suicidalists are back at it. Last year’s mini-album Apostate (review) saw Yritys expand their sound from the most generic DSBM towards an at times more aggressive and traditional black metal sound. The result was … Continue reading YRITYS: Mors Mecum Ambulat
Year: 2025Label: Long Live Evil I might’ve said it before, but I’m a simple kinda guy. If I see something new related to Alla Xul Elu, I buy it. And, to be frank, it’s rarely been a bad decision. Even … Continue reading BILLY OBEY: Rhymebook Of The Recently Deceased
This past summer, we received the debut album Without Idols of Hungarian group Napsorvadás for review. From the first listen, we recognized it as something quite special. The album blends several currents of post-industrial music into a whole, and still … Continue reading Tracing The Spirit Of Apocalyptic Folk With Napsorvadás
Martial industrial as a genre has always, from the onset, been controversial. Neofolk too, to an extreme extent. However, in many ways, martial industrial is a far more niché genre than neofolk; the latter has throughout the years both conceptually … Continue reading Ambiguity as the heart of martial industrial
Year: 2025Label: Century Media US deathcore act Lorna Shore have truly been the talk of the day for the past couple of years already. Seems like nobody into hard, heavy and extreme music is without an opinion of them. Just … Continue reading LORNA SHORE: I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me
Year: 2025Label: Out Of The Dungeon Finnish The Chamberlain are a band with a definite vision for their music. It’s pretty singular idea, but not too constrictive. At least the Finns don’t run out on ideas on this, their debut. … Continue reading THE CHAMBERLAIN: Draconian Magick
Year: 2025Label: self-released German neofolk duo Kaelte are back at it again. They remain more or less true to their style in every respect, from the policy of self-releasing their albums to the style of neofolk they perform. In terms … Continue reading KAELTE: Bilder Aus Asche Und Blut
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