So, Only Death Is Real has witnessed the first year-end, and it is time to jot down some thoughts as summary for 2019 and a plan of action of sorts for 2020. The site was created in mid-May, and since … Continue reading A year in summation: 2019
APOCRYFAL: Crushing Black Death Release year: 2019Label: Mara Productions With an title such as Crushing Black Death, it’s impossible not to harbour quite a lot of expectations as to what an album should sound like. You’d expect black metal and … Continue reading The doomed black death of Apocryfal
IKU-TURSO: Storm Over Isengard Release year: 2019Label: Wolfspell Records/His Wounds Were it not for the title of the mini-album, Dutch-Finnish Iku-Turso would come across as shamelessly ripping off the entire style of certain classic 90’s Norwegian black metal acts. But … Continue reading Iku-Turso paying homage to Norway
PUTRID DEFECATION: Bowels Of Hell Release year: 2019Label: Stadin Rec Slam is one of those subgenres of death metal which is hard to take seriously at least on face value. In striving to go for the goriest, most disgusting imagery … Continue reading Slam to the speed of Leslie Nielsen
ALGHAZANTH: Thy Aeons Envenomed Sanity/Promo ’97 Release year: 1999/2019Label: Woodcut Records Alghazanth were one of the countless Finnish black metal groups who crawled out from the woodwork during the mid-to-late nineties to offer their take on the genre. During their … Continue reading Alghazanth’s Stormgrey Visions
VORUM: Grim Death Awaits Release year: 2009Label: Woodcut Records After a respectable 10-year career, 12 if you count the two years they operated as Haudankaivaja, Finnish Vorum recently decided to call it a day and the members went their separate … Continue reading The grim death of Vorum
LÄHDÖN AIKA: Alku Release year: 2019Label: self-released There’s a definite hardcore element to Finnish Lähdön Aika’s sound, despite them often being labelled as doom metal or sludge. In fact, I think there’s more hardcore than either of the two aforementioned … Continue reading No serenity for Lähdön Aika
DISCREANT: Community Standards Release year: 2019Label: Stadin Rec With thirteen tracks and a running time of ten minutes, and a name starting with “Dis”, it’s pretty easy to guess what’s contained on Community Standards, the first proper release of Finnish … Continue reading The hardcore standards of Discreant
Despite a career spanning a decade, several albums and connections to cult Finnish act Slugathor, doom-laden death metal entity Desecresy have never ascended from the murky depths of the deep death metal underground. With a new album, Towards Nebulae, being … Continue reading At the threshold of Desecresy’s dark cosmos
DESECRESY: Stoic Death Release year: 2015Label: Xtreem Records Finnish Desecresy have always fascinated me for a number of reasons. One of them is how seldom you see their name mentioned considering they’re celebrating their 10th anniversary this year and have … Continue reading Exploring caverns of cosmic darkness with Desecresy
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