Release year: 2017/2024Label: Iron Bonehead Productions/Misantropia Records Whilst certainly not unheard of, all-female and female solo black metal projects are still a relative scarcity. Everyone who’s been involved in black metal since the 90’s will probably remember Greek Astarte, and … Continue reading IESCHURE: The Shadow
Release year: 2024Label: Young Guns II Now, this here release is a prime example of the reasons why I love punk, the grassroots scene and the DIY ethos. I mean, how awesome isn’t the story of how this release came … Continue reading ROACHENDERS: Roachenders
Release year: 2024Label: Misantropia Records In our review of Finnish Waeltaja’s previous album Heremite (review here), we remarked that it made us want to like dungeon synth – but lamentably few releases fare well in comparison to it. As such, … Continue reading WAELTAJA: Beholding The Ruins Of My Kingdom
Release year: 2024Label: Misantropia Records Put together, the two acts on this split have (according to Discogs) a total of 63 releases since 2012. That’s pretty prolific – but scarcely balanced, considering Somber Winds is responsible for two of these, … Continue reading KALMANKANTAJA/SOMBER WINDS: Split
Release year: 2024Label: Randale Records/Pirates Press Records/Captain Oi!/Cherry Red Records And here, for one final time, is Cock Sparrer. If you listen to punk or oi!, you’ve no excuse not to know who these guys are. Formed way back in … Continue reading COCK SPARRER: Hand On Heart
Release year: 2024Label: Last Day Of The North Finnish Šamane are an act I’ve been following with some interest ever since their debut album Kaukana virtaa Eufrat (2019). The debut album was a bit of an uneven affair, combining elements … Continue reading ŠAMANE: Solstice
Let’s talk perfection. Let’s talk Danzig’s second album Lucifuge. Of its 11 tracks, an amazing 10 are pure perfection, and the remaining one track – Pain In The World – is “just” pretty damn awesome. Regardless of what you think … Continue reading From the Vaults #9: Lucifuge
Release year: 2024Label: self-released It’s funny. Whenever winter starts turning to spring, I start listening to horrorcore. I mean, I listen to it all year ’round a little bit, but when the first signs of spring start to appear, that’s … Continue reading KEAGAN GRIMM: Gospell
When someone my age listens to The Ink Spots, an all-black US vocal group who had their heyday in the 1940’s, one can relatively safely assume they are also a fan of the Fallout video game franchise. And yes indeed, … Continue reading From the Vaults #8: The Best Of The Ink Spots
Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum And once more, we arrive at Polish Zoharum’s doorstep to see what peculiarities they have put out. Schröttersburg, also from Poland, are already on their sixth album according to the promo sheet, several of which have … Continue reading SCHRÖTTERSBURG: Kosmogonia
Only Death Is Real 