ENTARTUNG: Maleficae Artes Release year: 2020Label: Dunkelheit Produktionen With almost ten years since their inception, and with several albums to their name, Entartung from Germany are far from newcomers to the field. Yet, they’ve remained firmly locked in the shadows … Continue reading Entartung’s malefic arts
MERCYFUL FATE: Mercyful Fate EP Release year: 1982/2020Label: Rave-On Records/Metal Blade Records Finishing our backwards journey of looking at Danish occult metal legends Mercyful Fate’s three first releases in reverse order, we’ve arrived at the very start: their debut four-track … Continue reading Do nuns have fun?
MERCYFUL FATE: Melissa Release year: 1983/2020Label: Roadrunner Records/Metal Blade Records Released just a year before the previously reviewed Don’t Break The Oath, Melissa was Danish occult metal group Mercyful Fate’s full-length debut. Compared to the self-titled four-track EP preceeding it, … Continue reading Into the coven
MERCYFUL FATE: Don’t Break The Oath Release year: 1984/2020Label: Roadrunner Records/Metal Blade Records “I deny Jesus Christ, the deceiver/And I abjure the christian faith/holding in contempt all of it’s works /…/ I swear to give my mind, my body and … Continue reading The unbroken oath
ANTICHRIST SIEGE MACHINE: Morbid Triumph Release year: 2017/2020Label: Krucyator Productions The cumbersomely named Antichrist Siege Machine from the US are among the newer crop of bands exploring the narrow but bountiful realms of bestial black metal and/or war metal. Having … Continue reading Antichrist triumph
ABYSMAL LORD: Exaltation Of The Infernal Cabal Release year: 2019Label: Hell’s Headbangers It’s obvious from the first tones of the intro: these guys are seriously into Beherit. Seriously into The Oath Of Black Blood. It’s the backbone and black lifeblood … Continue reading Exaltation Of The Abysmal Lord
BLACKHORNS: Rise Of An Infernal Sorcery/The Oath Release year: 2019Label: Putrid Cult The first thing I’m going to criticize about this album is the somewhat sloppy job done with the design. Firstly, the album name is spelled in two different … Continue reading Rise Of The Black Horns
ANTICHRIST SIEGE MACHINE: Schism Perpetration Release year: 2019Label: Krucyator Productions Hailing from the US and crushing skulls since 2016, the two-man band Antichrist Siege Machine are one of the younger purveyors of that niché genre of extreme metal known as … Continue reading Antichrist perpetration
UNHOLY ARCHANGEL: Kataclysmic Perversions Release year: 2019Label: Frost And Fire In comparison to Abominablood’s demo collection, which we reviewed earlier, this compilation of demo and split material by Greek black metal act Unholy Archangel does things far better when it … Continue reading Demon days with Unholy Archangel
ABOMINABLOOD: Dark Creatures In The Vacuum Of Dementia Release year: 2019Label: Putrid Cult Abominablood from Argentina – a solo project consisting of pseudonym Venomous – tread the precarious line between black and death metal, where words such as “war metal” … Continue reading Dark creatures of Abominablood
Only Death Is Real 