So, Only Death Is Real has witnessed the first year-end, and it is time to jot down some thoughts as summary for 2019 and a plan of action of sorts for 2020. The site was created in mid-May, and since … Continue reading A year in summation: 2019
HATRED INHERIT: Hatred Inherit Release year: 2019Label: self-released According to the promo sheet, German Hatred Inherit’s style is “modernized old school death metal”. Now, promo sheets are often filled with the most incredulous crap that’s just pure nonsense and has … Continue reading The modernized old school of Hatred Inherit
BOLG: Plague Vaccine Release year: 2018Label: Hass Weg Productions Bulgarian Bolg were formed already back in 2003, but it took them fifteen long years to finally get an album out. Prior to this album, they’ve only released one demo and … Continue reading Bolg’s black metal plague
APOCRYFAL: Crushing Black Death Release year: 2019Label: Mara Productions With an title such as Crushing Black Death, it’s impossible not to harbour quite a lot of expectations as to what an album should sound like. You’d expect black metal and … Continue reading The doomed black death of Apocryfal
UNBOUNDED TERROR: Faith In Chaos Release year: 2020Label: Xtreem Music Following in the footsteps of many other acts, Unbouded Terror from Majorca, Spain are yet another long buried, obscure 90’s death metal group who’ve decided to reunite and record new … Continue reading Faith in terror
IKU-TURSO: Storm Over Isengard Release year: 2019Label: Wolfspell Records/His Wounds Were it not for the title of the mini-album, Dutch-Finnish Iku-Turso would come across as shamelessly ripping off the entire style of certain classic 90’s Norwegian black metal acts. But … Continue reading Iku-Turso paying homage to Norway
Year: 2019Label: Century Media Some years ago, Norwegian black metal legends Mayhem started playing their iconic album De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas live in its entirety, to much acclaim. This resulted in the live album De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Alive (2016), … Continue reading MAYHEM: Daemon
SUN DESCENDS BLACK: EP I Release year: 2019Label: self-released Some years ago, the chaotic, grinding black metal pioneered by the likes of Blasphemy already in the late 80’s/early 90’s, was all the rage, and bands drinking from that particular stream … Continue reading Grinding maelstroms of Sun Descends Black
VADER: Welcome To The Morbid Reich Release year: 2011Label: Nuclear Blast From their primitively death-thrashing roots, during the 90’s Polish Vader evolved to a veritable death metal machine, who’ve churned out extremely tightly played albums at a steady rate to … Continue reading A return to Vader’s Reich
DAEMONIAC: Dwellers Of Apocalypse Release year: 2019Label: Xtreem Records As everyone into death metal knows, Sweden was one of the countries to stake a major claim early on, and one of the earliest scenes to create their own trademark sound. … Continue reading Daemoniac dwelling in Swedish apocalypse
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