ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO: Ménage À Quatre Release year: 2019Label: Out Of Line I have long been a fan of neofolk, and the artist that got me into the genre originally was Swedish Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio, whose split with Italian Spiritual … Continue reading Foursomes with Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio
TOMB MOLD: The Bottomless Perdition + The Moulting Release year: 2017Label: Blood Harvest If Tomb Mold’s debut, Primordial Malignity (which we reviewed here), reminds one of a mixture of the guttural catacombs of Pillard-era Incantation and the demented strangeness of … Continue reading The moulting of Tomb Mold
ALGHAZANTH: Thy Aeons Envenomed Sanity/Promo ’97 Release year: 1999/2019Label: Woodcut Records Alghazanth were one of the countless Finnish black metal groups who crawled out from the woodwork during the mid-to-late nineties to offer their take on the genre. During their … Continue reading Alghazanth’s Stormgrey Visions
SLAYER: Diabolus In Musica Release year: 1998Label: American Recordings As for virtually all 80’s metal bands, the 90’s were a tough time for Slayer. Thrash metal, along with other 80’s metal styles, went out of fashion and, spearheaded by grunge, … Continue reading Perversions of Slayer
CEMETARY: An Evil Shade Of Grey Release year: 1992Label: Black Mark Productions In the early 90’s, Sweden was a veritable treasure trove of death metal. Not only were there an abundance of groups coming from Sweden, there was also a … Continue reading Cemetary’s gothic shade of death
VORUM: Grim Death Awaits Release year: 2009Label: Woodcut Records After a respectable 10-year career, 12 if you count the two years they operated as Haudankaivaja, Finnish Vorum recently decided to call it a day and the members went their separate … Continue reading The grim death of Vorum
TOMB MOLD: Primordial Malignity Release year: 2017Label: Blood Harvest In the years since their inception in 2015, Canadian Tomb Mold have evolved in leaps. From a studio project of two members to a full line-up, from primordial and ugly death … Continue reading Primordial mold from malign tombs
