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
BLACK LEGIONS: Rise Of Impious Demonolatry Release year: 2019Label: Bestial Burst Italian duo Black Legion wear their influences on their sleeve. The album sleeve, that is: everything about this screams bestial old school black metal. The black and white cover … Continue reading Black legions of impious demonolatry
D APHELIUM: Profetian Om Dygden Och Plikten Release year: 2020Label: Black Market Metal Label/Wolfspell Records Sometimes it seems like the 90’s Swedish black metal scene gets kind of overlooked these days, apart from a few choice names. I mean, Marduk … Continue reading D Aphelium’s prophecies
TEITANBLOOD: The Baneful Choir Release year: 2019Label: Norma Evangelium Diaboli There’s a whole subtype of extreme metal based on the rabid, bestial black metal of death pioneered by legendary acts such as Beherit and Blasphemy in the late 80’s and … Continue reading A baneful chaos
ANCIENT CEREMONY: Under Moonlight We Kiss Release year: 1997Label: Cacophonous Records Ah, the mid-to-late 90’s. Those were the days I took my first fledgling steps into the world of extreme metal. Naturally, for the day and age, some of the … Continue reading Under moonlight we cheese
PHANTASMAL: Ansaan syntyneet – Ansaan kuolleet Release year: 2019Label: self-released During the noughties, there evolved in Finland a somehow quite distinct form of extreme metal which was neither black, death nor doom, but instead a weird amalgamation of all of … Continue reading Phantasmal trappings
ASARHADDON: Reysa Year: 2020Label: Geisterasche Organisation Apparently – I’m entirely dependent on the promo sheet here – “Reysa” is an old German word that can be translated as “journey” (for which the Swedish word is “resa”, btw) but also “passing” … Continue reading Six journeys with Asarhaddon
ULVER: Trolsk Sortmetall 1993-1997 Year: 2014/2019Label: Century Media Records Ulver are certainly one of those artists who should need no introduction to any extreme metal fan. Though their time as a black metal band was limited and yielded only a … Continue reading The bewitching black metal of Ulver
DJEVEL: Ormer Til Armer, Maane Til Hode Release year: 2019Label: Aftermath Music If you’re reading this, chances are you’ll need no explanation of what I’m referring to when I say “90’s Norway”. Yes, of course: black metal from the golden … Continue reading Djevel from the dark past
Only Death Is Real 