Year: 2024Label: Time To Kill Records/Kick/Narcotica Publishing Death metal and grindcore are genres naturally predilected towards violence. Themes of gore, sadism, violence and all things splattered with viscera are the bread and butter of both genres. However, Finnish deathgrind duo … Continue reading GOATBURNER: Fatal
Year: 2024Label: Steinklang Industries To be clear, this text is not a review. I can’t well enough review my own album, can I? Instead, this is a text exploring some of the themes and concepts of the album, presenting an … Continue reading DIEUX DES CIMETIÈRES: Säkeitä esoteerisesta Euroopasta
Year: 2024Publisher: Arcana EuropaAvailable in: English, Finnish This review is an addendum to the review of the original Finnish version of this book from 2021, which you can find here. At the time, an English version had been hinted at, … Continue reading Cederberg, Aki: HOLY EUROPE
Year: 2024Label: The Cursed Order/Folter Records/Korpituli Productions Curse Upon A Prayer are one of those bands I’ve always seen mentioned and have heard vaguely positive comments about, but for some reason haven’t gotten around to checking. So when the digital … Continue reading CURSE UPON A PRAYER: The Worship: Orthoprax Satanism
Year: 2024Label: Hell’s Tone Records Has it really been two years already? It doesn’t seem like such a long time since Finnish Laki & Järjestys last released something – but, indeed, their debut album Uusi aika was released in 2022. … Continue reading LAKI & JÄRJESTYS: Ei katumusta
I remember how, back when this, Finnish Satanic Warmaster’s debut was released, the reactions in Finland among friends and on message boards were almost unequivocally positive and enthusiastic. In retrospect, there was a feeling as of standing at the precipice … Continue reading From the Vaults #13: Strength & Honour
Release year: 2024Label: Misantropia Records As those who’ve been following this site for a while might know, I first got into extreme metal in the mid-to-late 90’s and by the turn of the millennium was firmly entrenched in the underground. … Continue reading COLDSCAPE: Kolme laulua kuolemasta
Release year: 2024Label: Gangstarockers Records Have you ever heard of The Trailblazers? If you’re not from Finland, I’m wagering the answer is no. They were a Finnish rockin’ band, whose style of music was somewhere between neobilly and psychobilly. The … Continue reading HELLBLAZERS: Welcome To The Devil’s Room
Release year: 2024Label: Misantropia Records In our review of Finnish Waeltaja’s previous album Heremite (review here), we remarked that it made us want to like dungeon synth – but lamentably few releases fare well in comparison to it. As such, … Continue reading WAELTAJA: Beholding The Ruins Of My Kingdom
Release year: 2024Label: Misantropia Records Put together, the two acts on this split have (according to Discogs) a total of 63 releases since 2012. That’s pretty prolific – but scarcely balanced, considering Somber Winds is responsible for two of these, … Continue reading KALMANKANTAJA/SOMBER WINDS: Split
Only Death Is Real 