DARKWOOD: Twilight Garden Release year: 2020Label: HeidenVolk There are only a precious few neofolk acts in the world who’ve managed to truly break out from the decidedly esoteric confines of the genre – apart from the old guard of Death … Continue reading Twilight Darkwoods
DESOLATOR: Sermon Of Apathy Release year: 2020Label: Black Lion Records Swedish Desolator are no newcomers to the game: they formed already in 2009, but prior to this only have one full-length album and assorted smaller releases to their name. Oh … Continue reading Sermon of Desolator
IDOLOS: Ahi Cab Release year: 2020Label: Anthrazit Records/Wolfmond Production Basically, there are two ways the name Popol Vuh might be familiar to you: you’re into old German psychedelic rock, or you’re into the mythologies and epics of ancient peoples. When … Continue reading They came from the stars…
ABATUAR: Mortandad Release year: 2020Label: Dunkelheit Produktionen The promo sheet describes Abatuar’s second album as a mixture of old school grinding death a’la Repulsion and the bestial war metal of Proclamation and Black Witchery. And you know, for once, the … Continue reading In Abatuar’s South American Hell
BLASPHEMOUS PUTREFACTION: Prelude To Perversion Release year: 2020Label: Dunkelheit Produktionen With a name like Blasphemous Putrefaction, you don’t have to do too much guessing to figure out the genre. Yes, death metal is the name of the game. And then, … Continue reading Blasphemous preludes to putrefaction
BLACK COMMUNION: Miasmic Monstrosity Release year: 2020Label: Dunkelheit Produktionen The album cover isn’t a tell-tale sign – it looks like a rather generic black metal album cover with a rather generic black metal band logo – but from the first … Continue reading Miasmic black communion
SHEZMU: À Travers Les Lambeaux Release year: 2020Label: Krucyator Productions Back when I was a kid first getting into extreme metal, death metal was what I first got into. As someone coming from a background of classic heavy metal and … Continue reading Shezmu’s maw of darkness
BLACK BEAST: Nocturnal Bloodlust Release year: 2019Label: Primitive Reaction Formed already in the early noughties, Black Beast from Finland released just one EP and one split in the years following their inception. Between 2006 and 2019 things were very silent … Continue reading Bloodlust of the black beast
OSSUARY ANEX: Obscurantism Apogee Release year: 2020Label: Xtreem Music Cultural exchange is a wonderful thing. It builds understanding between peoples, nations and cultures in a way that no formal channels can. As such, when a Russian act belts out pure-bred … Continue reading Ossuary obscurantism
UNDEAD: Existential Horror Release year: 2019/2020Label: Kadabra Music With what appears to be a zombie on the cover of the album, Undead set the tone for the record from the go. The band, whose members reside in Spain and the … Continue reading Curse of the Undead
