Bolg’s black metal plague
BOLG: Plague Vaccine Release year: 2018Label: Hass Weg Productions Bulgarian Bolg were formed already back in 2003, but it took them fifteen long years to finally get an album out. Prior to this album, they’ve only released one demo and … Continue reading Bolg’s black metal plague
The doomed black death of Apocryfal
APOCRYFAL: Crushing Black Death Release year: 2019Label: Mara Productions With an title such as Crushing Black Death, it’s impossible not to harbour quite a lot of expectations as to what an album should sound like. You’d expect black metal and … Continue reading The doomed black death of Apocryfal
Faith in terror
UNBOUNDED TERROR: Faith In Chaos Release year: 2020Label: Xtreem Music Following in the footsteps of many other acts, Unbouded Terror from Majorca, Spain are yet another long buried, obscure 90’s death metal group who’ve decided to reunite and record new … Continue reading Faith in terror
Iku-Turso paying homage to Norway
IKU-TURSO: Storm Over Isengard Release year: 2019Label: Wolfspell Records/His Wounds Were it not for the title of the mini-album, Dutch-Finnish Iku-Turso would come across as shamelessly ripping off the entire style of certain classic 90’s Norwegian black metal acts. But … Continue reading Iku-Turso paying homage to Norway
Dad rock a’la Mayhem
MAYHEM: Daemon Release year: 2019Label: Century Media Some years ago, Norwegian black metal legends Mayhem started playing their iconic album De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas live in its entirety, to much acclaim. This resulted in the live album De Mysteriis Dom … Continue reading Dad rock a’la Mayhem
Grinding maelstroms of Sun Descends Black
SUN DESCENDS BLACK: EP I Release year: 2019Label: self-released Some years ago, the chaotic, grinding black metal pioneered by the likes of Blasphemy already in the late 80’s/early 90’s, was all the rage, and bands drinking from that particular stream … Continue reading Grinding maelstroms of Sun Descends Black
A return to Vader’s Reich
VADER: Welcome To The Morbid Reich Release year: 2011Label: Nuclear Blast From their primitively death-thrashing roots, during the 90’s Polish Vader evolved to a veritable death metal machine, who’ve churned out extremely tightly played albums at a steady rate to … Continue reading A return to Vader’s Reich
Daemoniac dwelling in Swedish apocalypse
DAEMONIAC: Dwellers Of Apocalypse Release year: 2019Label: Xtreem Records As everyone into death metal knows, Sweden was one of the countries to stake a major claim early on, and one of the earliest scenes to create their own trademark sound. … Continue reading Daemoniac dwelling in Swedish apocalypse
Beast Of Damnation crushing gothic scum
BEAST OF DAMNATION: Dawn Of The Beast Release year: 2019Label: Black Sunset If you were there in the late 90’s and early noughties, you might remember how large parts of the black metal scene waged a war against all things … Continue reading Beast Of Damnation crushing gothic scum
Vader’s city of the dead
VADER: Necropolis Release year: 2009Label: Nuclear Blast Taking another jump of almost a decade, we’re moving from 2000’s Litany on to Polish Vader’s 2009 album Necropolis, their 9th full-length album (not counting XXV, which consisted entirely of re-recorded songs). As … Continue reading Vader’s city of the dead
Only Death Is Real 