Year: 2025Label: World Breaking Records/Primitive Reaction If there’s one thing I didn’t predict for 2024, it was the comeback of Finnish black metal pioneers Beherit. But come back they did, and I got to witness them live twice last year. … Continue reading BEHERIT: Live In Praha CZ
Year: 2024Label: self-released Arriving at Finnish Vesper Kenning’s third full-length album which, according to the band, concludes the “Terrestrial vortex trilogy”, a grander picture starts to emerge. The group remain as enigmatic as ever, perhaps even more so, but the … Continue reading VESPER KENNINGS: Eldritch Winter – A Novenary Of Hiemal Contemplations
Year: 2025Label: self-released And thusly, we segue from 2024 towards 2025 in reviews as well: Finnish Beatrix’s new EP Deathsent Ceremony was released on January 1st. Apparently the EP was a long time in the making due to various unfortunate … Continue reading BEATRIX: Deathsent Ceremony
Year: 2024Label: Misantropia Records As most who know me will attest to, a great way to get my attention and interest is with anything related to Western esoteric traditions. As you too may have surmised from, for example, the book … Continue reading CHYMIST: Opus I: Nox
Year: 2024Publisher: SalakirjatAvailable in: Finnish Esotericism has risen to become a surprisingly hot topic in Finnish literature during the last few years. This year alone, there’s been at least three other books on esoteric topics by non-esoteric publishers (we covered … Continue reading Larvanto, Rikhard: VARJOTAIVAL
Year: 2024Label: Krypta Records Finnish The Carnival are true eccentrics within the realm of extreme/underground music. Granted, it’s no news to anyone that first wave black metal was heavily influenced by punk rock. And later on, plenty of crust acts … Continue reading THE CARNIVAL: Absoluuttinen syntymä
Year: 2024Label: Doom of the Ignorant Subtlety is a fine art, a tough thing to master – and something Finnish Kusipää don’t fuck with. From the name of the project, the Finnish equivalent of dickhead, asshole or bastard, to the … Continue reading KUSIPÄÄ: Discography 2013-2019
Year: 2024Label: Misantropia Records/Black Metal Maniac Although the Finnish black metal scene has during the past 25 years spawned quite a few internationally acclaimed acts, the underground is of course a lot larger and many are the acts that dwell … Continue reading EPÄKRISTUS: Satan, Sex And War
Year: 2024Label: De La Rocka It’s been a long and winding road for Finnish singer-guitarist Panu De La Rocka. His previous band Graveyard Bashers released their third and final album in 2021 (Wreck ‘Em Dead, reviewed here). Not long after, … Continue reading DE LA ROCKA: Nightmare Reborn
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
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