Year: 2026Label: Misantropia Records/Ambirial Mvsic Productions Finnish dungeon synth act Waeltaja are nothing if not prolific. In under ten years the one man project has released 13 albums according to Discogs. This time around, the project outdid itself: two lengthy … Continue reading WAELTAJA: Omega Monolith
Year: 2026Label: Misantropia Records/Ambirial Mvsic Productions As I’ve said before, dungeon synth is a genre I’d like to like far more than I actually like. There’s something that appeals to me immensely on a conceptual level in dungeon synth as … Continue reading WAELTAJA: Centuries Of Sorrow
Year: 2026Label: Misantropia Records/Ambirial Mvsic Productions Like our text on Dieux Des Cimetières’ previous album, 2024’s Säkeitä esoteerisesta Euroopasta (here), this is not a review, but a text discussing the concept of the album its themes and its influences. After … Continue reading DIEUX DES CIMETIÈRES: Mercy & Severity
Year: 2026Label: De La Rocka Music Two years after the blistering debut album Nightmare Reborn (review here), Finnish De La Rocka return with a new single. As project mainman Panu De La Rocka discussed in the interview I did with … Continue reading DE LA ROCKA: The Vampire
Year: 2026Label: Misantropia Records Misantropia Records’ demo compilation Satan, Sex And War (review) turned out to be a fortuitious thing. In and of itself, it was a welcome release showcasing a band that remained overlooked throughout its career. Finnish Epäkristus … Continue reading EPÄKRISTUS: Into Cold Tomorrow
Year: 2026Label: Misantropia Records Finnish Hellboozer Union are one of those hidden obscurities of the underground, who enjoy a certain reputation but few know them more than by name. Of course, with only a handful of demos released since their … Continue reading HELLBOOZER UNION: s/t
Year: 2025Label: self-released Although Finnish Altar Of Despair have been at it for a while already, ever since 2018 in fact, to the best of my knowledge this is their first release in a physical format. The band, still unsigned, … Continue reading ALTAR OF DESPAIR: Severance
Year: 2026Label: Bestial Burst Finnish Annihilatus have a long history behind them, but not a very long discography. Since their inception in 1999, the group have released only three albums, a mini-album and some sundries. One obvious explanation might be … Continue reading ANNIHILATUS: Exterminate
Year: 2026Label: New Approach Records The ever-amorphous, ever-unpredictable Absolute Key return with another album that sees them shift form. Experimentalism has always remained a core element of the Finnish one-man project, but within that loose context, they’ve explored a width … Continue reading ABSOLUTE KEY: Facets Of War
If you were Finnish and into black metal around the turn of the millennium, most likely you were familiar with Thyrane. And if you were from anywhere else, odds are you never heard of them, let alone heard them. Such … Continue reading From the Vaults #24: Black Harmony
Only Death Is Real 