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
AUTOKRATOR: Hammer Of The Heretics Release year: 2018/2019Label: Krucyator Productions Apparently, on earlier releases French Autokrator’s style was a mixture of death metal, doom metal and drone. I say apparently, because this is the first album I’ve heard by the … Continue reading Autokrator hammering heretics
ABHORROT: Abysmal Echoes Release year: 2019Label: Morbid Chapel Records Hailing from Austria, Abhorrot’s career amounted in a number of smaller releases and this one full-length album. Apparently the decision to kill off Abhorrot had already been made at the time … Continue reading Abysmal Abhorrots
PURTENANCE: Buried Incarnation Release year: 2020Label: Xtreem Music Finnish Purtenance are without doubt part of the legends of original Finnish death metal. Formed in 1991, they released their classic debut Member Of Immortal Damnation the following year and, like so … Continue reading Incarnations of Purtenance
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
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
APOSENTO: Conjuring The New Apocalypse Release year: 2020Label: Xtreem Music Spanish Aposento are one more of the old death metal acts of the country who after a long hibernation have reactivated and released new material via Xtreem Music – there … Continue reading The conjurations of Aposento
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
GRIM FATE: Perished In Torment Release year: 2020Label: Xtreem Records Heavy, lurching old school death/doom is a well that never seems to run dry. The classic sound, which seemingly forever plays second fiddle to the speedier brutal death metal of … Continue reading A grim fate to perish
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
Only Death Is Real 