Year: 2024Label: Time To Kill Records/Kick/Narcotica Publishing Death metal and grindcore are genres naturally predilected towards violence. Themes of gore, sadism, violence and all things splattered with viscera are the bread and butter of both genres. However, Finnish deathgrind duo … Continue reading GOATBURNER: Fatal
Release year: 2024Label: Vicious Witch Records With a name like Thrasherwolf, you’d be forgiven if you assumed this UK group play thrash metal. However, nothing could be further from the truth. If I had to pin a genre name to … Continue reading THRASHERWOLF: Inside The Sickened Mind
Year: 2024Label: Svart Records So many artists, so many releases, so little time. Especially when your musical tastes are somewhat extensive and far reaching, this equation becomes impossible – and I do consider my taste to be just that. As … Continue reading PETRIFICATION: Sever Sacred Light
Year: 2024Label: Steinklang Industries To be clear, this text is not a review. I can’t well enough review my own album, can I? Instead, this is a text exploring some of the themes and concepts of the album, presenting an … Continue reading DIEUX DES CIMETIÈRES: Säkeitä esoteerisesta Euroopasta
Year: 2024Label: Steinklang Industries French Regard Extreme are back with another slab of their medieval neoclassical – or call it what you want – following 2021’s Ars Veterum (reviewed here) and 2022’s compilation of reworked older tracks, Legacy (reviewed here). … Continue reading REGARD EXTREME: Eco Solemnis
Year: 2024Label: The Cursed Order/Folter Records/Korpituli Productions Curse Upon A Prayer are one of those bands I’ve always seen mentioned and have heard vaguely positive comments about, but for some reason haven’t gotten around to checking. So when the digital … Continue reading CURSE UPON A PRAYER: The Worship: Orthoprax Satanism
Year: 2024Label: Hell’s Tone Records Has it really been two years already? It doesn’t seem like such a long time since Finnish Laki & Järjestys last released something – but, indeed, their debut album Uusi aika was released in 2022. … Continue reading LAKI & JÄRJESTYS: Ei katumusta
I remember how, back when this, Finnish Satanic Warmaster’s debut was released, the reactions in Finland among friends and on message boards were almost unequivocally positive and enthusiastic. In retrospect, there was a feeling as of standing at the precipice … Continue reading From the Vaults #13: Strength & Honour
Release year: 2024Label: self-released The Second World War and submarines. My first association is, and always will be, the monumental cinematic epic Das Boot, one of the most gripping and intense movies ever made. Klaus Doldinger’s brilliant soundtrack has a … Continue reading TUILERIES: The Iron Coffin
If you’re from Finland or Sweden and paid attention to what was going on in popular music in the mid-90’s, you couldn’t escape Swedish folk pop duo Nordman. During the era of grunge, eurodance and gangsta rap, they were probably … Continue reading From the Vaults #12: Nordman
