Year: 2025Label: Out Of The Dungeon Finnish Geatkihaukr opt for a heavy dose of obscurity in their black metal. The name itself is entirely mysterious, and the font used in the booklet will give anyone who tries to decipher especially … Continue reading GEATKIHAUKR: Varjaeger
Year: 2025Label: Prophecy I’ll be honest: prior to this album, I’d heard maybe one song by Hexvessel, so this review isn’t exactly based on an in-depth knowledge of their past discography. But then again, up until recently, the band played … Continue reading HEXVESSEL: Nocturne
Year: 2025Label: Dark Descent Records There’s a bit of a death metal revival going on in Finland. A lot of new bands are popping up, many of them with young musicians; some are still in their teens, some are in … Continue reading SEPULCHRAL CURSE: Crimson Moon Evocation
Finnish The Chamberlain’s debut album Draconian Magick (review) came pretty much like a bolt out of the blue in early 2025. We admit, perhaps to our own detriment, that here at ODIR we’d never even heard of them. All of … Continue reading Talking elitism and appeal with The Chamberlain
Year: 2025Label: Inverse Records Already for decades, Finland has been a veritable breeding ground of black metal. Where in the 90’s Finland never really achieved the status our neighbours to the west did, despite having a couple of absolute primogenitor … Continue reading VALONTUOJA: Tulesta syntynyt
Year: 2025Label: Freak Animal Often, when I’m reviewing noise, I’m thinking: why? What’s the point? Noise is… well, noise. And I don’t mean that in the sense that it’s all just mindless cacophony and who in their right mind listens … Continue reading RAUTAKYMI: Ei tästä maailmasta
Year: 2025Label: Inverse Records Ah, the noughties. What a decade in Finnish metal that was. Both in the mainstream and in the underground, Finland truly and finally found its footing. It was a decade of unforeseen popularity and success. In … Continue reading MOURNIATY: Musta maa
Year: 2025Label: Out Of The Dungeon Finnish The Chamberlain are a band with a definite vision for their music. It’s pretty singular idea, but not too constrictive. At least the Finns don’t run out on ideas on this, their debut. … Continue reading THE CHAMBERLAIN: Draconian Magick
For those who’ve been following our site for a while, the name Vesper Kennings might ring a bell. This eccentric Finnish outfit released their first demo in 2019, and have since then released three albums (the so-called Terrestrial Vortices trilogy) … Continue reading Observations from in-between with Vesper Kennings
Year: 2025Label: Zazen Sounds/Monastyr Records/Forbidden Keep Records Those who’ve been following this site for a while might have realized that my tastes in black metal lean in a very specific direction. If it’s knuckleheadedly, primitively and stubbornly bestial; if it … Continue reading CELESTIAL SILENCE: Silent Calls From The Other Side
Only Death Is Real 