ANCIENT MALIGNITY: Ancient Malignity Release year: 2020Label: Inhuman Assault Productions Yeah, I know, I know: complaining about the production values and sound of an underground extreme metal band is pointless most of the time. And even when it isn’t, there’s … Continue reading Barbaric attack cult
NEXWOMB: Exegesis Of Nihility Release year: 2019/2020Label: Nihilistic Noise Propaganda/Morbid Chapel Records Originally released on tape by Nihilistic Noise Propaganda in 2019 and on CD the following year by Morbid Chapel, Exegesis Of Nihilty is the debut album by US … Continue reading Nexwomb’s explanations of nothingness
BLASPHAMAGOATACHRIST: Bastardizing The Purity Release year: 2020Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions It takes a special kind of guts to name your band Blasphamagoatachrist… I mean, any way you look at it, that’s a pretty awkward name. And that’s probably the … Continue reading Blasphamagoatachristing purity
GORR: Kvit Som Snøen, Kald I Blikket Release year: 2021Label: self-released Starting out as a one-man band from the northwestern coastline of Norway, Gorr has since then expanded across the Atlantic. Joining founding member Skuggimaðr on guitar is Hateful Wind … Continue reading The transatlantic black metal of Gorr
HÅN: Breathing The Void Release year: 2021Label: Northern Silence Productions I don’t know exactly why, but for some reason whenever a non-Nordic artists adopts a name that’s in one of the nordic languages, my reaction is immediately negative. I admit … Continue reading Hån breathing a void
NIGHTSIDE: The End Of Christianity Release year: 2001/2020Label: Sound Riot Records/GoatowaRex Finland’s history with black metal is both long and illustrious – already during the earliest days of what was to become known as the second wave of black metal, … Continue reading Nightside’s call to war
LAW OF CONTAGION: Woeful Litanies From The Nether Realm Release year: 2020Label: Moribund Records Citing acts such as Beherit, Mystifier, Mortuary Drape and classic Mayhem as references, the promo sheet certainly paints with broad strokes when speaking about Portugese one-man … Continue reading Woeful Litanies Of Contagion
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
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
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…
