PURTENANCE: Buried Incarnation Release year: 2020Label: Xtreem Music Finnish Purtenance are without doubt part of the legends of original Finnish death metal. Formed in 1991, they released their classic debut Member Of Immortal Damnation the following year and, like so … Continue reading Incarnations of Purtenance
ANTICHRIST SIEGE MACHINE: Schism Perpetration Release year: 2019Label: Krucyator Productions Hailing from the US and crushing skulls since 2016, the two-man band Antichrist Siege Machine are one of the younger purveyors of that niché genre of extreme metal known as … Continue reading Antichrist perpetration
UNHOLY ARCHANGEL: Kataclysmic Perversions Release year: 2019Label: Frost And Fire In comparison to Abominablood’s demo collection, which we reviewed earlier, this compilation of demo and split material by Greek black metal act Unholy Archangel does things far better when it … Continue reading Demon days with Unholy Archangel
ABOMINABLOOD: Dark Creatures In The Vacuum Of Dementia Release year: 2019Label: Putrid Cult Abominablood from Argentina – a solo project consisting of pseudonym Venomous – tread the precarious line between black and death metal, where words such as “war metal” … Continue reading Dark creatures of Abominablood
BLACK LEGIONS: Rise Of Impious Demonolatry Release year: 2019Label: Bestial Burst Italian duo Black Legion wear their influences on their sleeve. The album sleeve, that is: everything about this screams bestial old school black metal. The black and white cover … Continue reading Black legions of impious demonolatry
D APHELIUM: Profetian Om Dygden Och Plikten Release year: 2020Label: Black Market Metal Label/Wolfspell Records Sometimes it seems like the 90’s Swedish black metal scene gets kind of overlooked these days, apart from a few choice names. I mean, Marduk … Continue reading D Aphelium’s prophecies
APOSENTO: Conjuring The New Apocalypse Release year: 2020Label: Xtreem Music Spanish Aposento are one more of the old death metal acts of the country who after a long hibernation have reactivated and released new material via Xtreem Music – there … Continue reading The conjurations of Aposento
TEITANBLOOD: The Baneful Choir Release year: 2019Label: Norma Evangelium Diaboli There’s a whole subtype of extreme metal based on the rabid, bestial black metal of death pioneered by legendary acts such as Beherit and Blasphemy in the late 80’s and … Continue reading A baneful chaos
GRIM FATE: Perished In Torment Release year: 2020Label: Xtreem Records Heavy, lurching old school death/doom is a well that never seems to run dry. The classic sound, which seemingly forever plays second fiddle to the speedier brutal death metal of … Continue reading A grim fate to perish
ANCIENT CEREMONY: Under Moonlight We Kiss Release year: 1997Label: Cacophonous Records Ah, the mid-to-late 90’s. Those were the days I took my first fledgling steps into the world of extreme metal. Naturally, for the day and age, some of the … Continue reading Under moonlight we cheese
