Year: 1992/2025Label: Misantropia Records Polish Graveland have had a few distinct phases in their career. Nowadays they are known for a very epic brand of viking black metal, where the influences from viking era Bathory are proudly on display. However, … Continue reading GRAVELAND: Drunemeton
Year: 2025Label: Bestial Burst Famously, the old saying proclaims that third time’s the charm. Finnish black metal trio Moon Oracle prove that with their third album. In our reviews of their two earlier albums (here and here) we applauded the … Continue reading MOON ORACLE: Guardians Of The Lunar Spheres
Year: 2024Label: Werewolf Records Released at the butt-end of 2024 with little to no advance hoopla, Finnish Satanic Warmaster’s Exultation Of Cruelty seemed to come a bit like a thief in the night. All of the sudden it just sort … Continue reading SATANIC WARMASTER: Exultation Of Cruelty
Year: 2024Label: Krypta Records Finnish The Carnival are true eccentrics within the realm of extreme/underground music. Granted, it’s no news to anyone that first wave black metal was heavily influenced by punk rock. And later on, plenty of crust acts … Continue reading THE CARNIVAL: Absoluuttinen syntymä
Something a bit different in our series of gems from the archives – but no less deserving of an entry: the first book attempting to give an overview of the phenomenon called black metal. The book by Michael Moynihan (of … Continue reading From the Vaults #14: Lords of Chaos
SARDONIC WITCHERY: Barbaric Evil Power Release year: 2024Label: War March Records/Nekrogoat Heresy Productions/Abyssal Productions/Aniquilacion Satanica Productions The promo sheet drops names such as Judas Iscariot, Celtic Frost, Darkthrone and Venom as references. Well, in the grand scale of things, all … Continue reading Sardonic barbarity
Only Death Is Real 