Anthropic Aggression
ANTHROPIC: Architects Of Aggression Release year: 2020Label: Jbudz Records/Sevared Records/Haunted Hotel Records Grindcore’s a funny old genre, isn’t it? The bastard child of early extreme metal and equally early extreme punk, taking musical aggression to ludicrous levels of straightforwardness, has … Continue reading Anthropic Aggression
Hegeroth’s perfidy
HEGEROTH: Perfidia Release year: 2020Label: self-released There’s that type of black metal sound which is tricky to write about. Not because it defies description or is something so unique there’s no reference for it. Quite contrary to the latter, in … Continue reading Hegeroth’s perfidy
Seven bowls of Soulskinner
SOULSKINNER: Seven Bowls Of Wrath Release year: 2020Label: Xtreem Music On their newest, in total fifth full-length album, Greek death metal act Soulskinner face changes. This is their first album without former vocalist Gothmog (also of Thou Art Lord fame), … Continue reading Seven bowls of Soulskinner
Twilight Darkwoods
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
Wisdom from the stars – the words of Idolos
It’s not every day you come in contact with extraterrestrial beings, is it? But that’s just what happened to me last summer, when a duo of Venusians calling themselves Idolos contacted me – through something as mundane as social media. … Continue reading Wisdom from the stars – the words of Idolos
Sermon of Desolator
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
They came from the stars…
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…
In Abatuar’s South American Hell
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 preludes to putrefaction
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
Miasmic black communion
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
Only Death Is Real 