VOLOGNE: Total Purge For The Living
Year: 2024Label: Steinklang Industries There’s an old saying that all good things come in threes. I guess Steinklang took that to heart with this most recent batch of tapes. Three tapes, three good ones. We’re only on the second tape … Continue reading VOLOGNE: Total Purge For The Living
KONTAKT SERVICE: Our Hearts Are Like Open Graves – And Your Names Are Written On The Stones!
Year: 2024Label: Steinklang Industries Now that’s a hefty name for a release. It sort of reminds me of Bal-Sagoth, the “barbarian metal” band of yore who were known for their unwieldy track titles. Or, thematically there’s precious little in common: … Continue reading KONTAKT SERVICE: Our Hearts Are Like Open Graves – And Your Names Are Written On The Stones!
THE CARNIVAL: Absoluuttinen syntymä
Year: 2024Label: Krypta Records Finnish The Carnival are true eccentrics within the realm of extreme/underground music. Granted, it’s no news to anyone that first wave black metal was heavily influenced by punk rock. And later on, plenty of crust acts … Continue reading THE CARNIVAL: Absoluuttinen syntymä
KUSIPÄÄ: Discography 2013-2019
Year: 2024Label: Doom of the Ignorant Subtlety is a fine art, a tough thing to master – and something Finnish Kusipää don’t fuck with. From the name of the project, the Finnish equivalent of dickhead, asshole or bastard, to the … Continue reading KUSIPÄÄ: Discography 2013-2019
EPÄKRISTUS: Satan, Sex And War
Year: 2024Label: Misantropia Records/Black Metal Maniac Although the Finnish black metal scene has during the past 25 years spawned quite a few internationally acclaimed acts, the underground is of course a lot larger and many are the acts that dwell … Continue reading EPÄKRISTUS: Satan, Sex And War
CORPSEFUCKING ART: Tomatized
Year: 2024Label: Comatose Music Uh oh, I wonder if we’re going to Facebook jail or at least quarantine because we use fuck in our URL and title? Italian Corpsefucking Art and their PR guy seem to be aware of this … Continue reading CORPSEFUCKING ART: Tomatized
V/A: 63 Days
Year: 2024Label: Fluttering Dragon Talk about a throwback. 63 Days was originally a series of six 7″ records released between 2004 and 2006 on the Fluttering Dragon label. Featured were significant martial industrial acts of the era, such as Krepulec, … Continue reading V/A: 63 Days
DE LA ROCKA: Nightmare Reborn
Year: 2024Label: De La Rocka It’s been a long and winding road for Finnish singer-guitarist Panu De La Rocka. His previous band Graveyard Bashers released their third and final album in 2021 (Wreck ‘Em Dead, reviewed here). Not long after, … Continue reading DE LA ROCKA: Nightmare Reborn
GOATBURNER: Fatal
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
THRASHERWOLF: Inside The Sickened Mind
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
Only Death Is Real 