Release year: 2024Label: Last Day Of The North Finnish Šamane are an act I’ve been following with some interest ever since their debut album Kaukana virtaa Eufrat (2019). The debut album was a bit of an uneven affair, combining elements … Continue reading ŠAMANE: Solstice
IGNIS MORTIS: Hæresis Maleficarum Release year: 2024Label: Hammer Of Hate Records Formed from the ashes of a previous group called Evil Might, Finnish Ignis Mortis may be newcomers but they’re certainly no greenhorns: the trio’s collective CV within black metal … Continue reading The fires of death burn
HATS & CAPS/EASTSIDE DOGS: Split Release year: 2023Label: KB Records Split releases can be annoying things. At the best of time, you receive almost an album’s worth of material not by one, but two bands. Then, a split release certainly … Continue reading Of hats, caps and dogs
KAUNIS KUOLEMATON: Mielenvalta Release year: 2023Label: Noble Demon I’ll level with ya. The style Finnish Kaunis Kuolematon represents – melodic extreme metal with doom elements and clean vocals aplenty – isn’t my cup of tea. In fact, it’s the kind … Continue reading Beautiful undying
PERMANENT SOLUTION: Permanent Solution Release year: 2023Label: Misantropia Records Sometimes a bit of obscurity can be a good thing. It can lend a sense of mystery or excitement to something. At other times, it may be even counterproductive. Ultimately, Finnish … Continue reading Solutions of a lasting nature
VOIDWIND: Clad In Your Misery Release year: 2023Label: Misantropia Records To tell you the truth, I’m not a huge fan of atmospheric black metal. I find that too often it loses itself in its meandering songs, emphasizing the atmosphere over … Continue reading Clad in Voidwind’s misery
CARDINALS FOLLY: Live By The Sword Release year: 2023Label: Soulseller Records A good name is a good name, right? And Live By The Sword is a good name. When Count Karnstein, band leader, vocalist and bass player of Finnish true … Continue reading Of doom, folly and life by the sword
DESECRESY: Deserted Realms Release year: 2023Label: Xtreem Music Finnish Desecresy are one of those bands, who’ve been plying their trade for a good while somewhat out of the limelight, chip by chip whittling away excess and piece by piece honing … Continue reading The deserted realms of Desecresy
Nefastos, Johannes: SAATANA – MAAILMAN PELASTAJA Release year: 2023Publisher: Aeth PressAvailable in: Finnish I’m guessing that most readers of this site have some kind of perception of or relationship to satanism, but their spectrum is greatly varied. And certainly, there … Continue reading A catechism for the devil
VESPER KENNINGS: Wandering Suns And Harvest Moons – A Torchlit Dream Cycle In Eight Parts Release year: 2023Label: self-released I’m sitting here with Finnish Vesper Kennings’ new album spread out before me, laughing at something I said in my review … Continue reading Kennings of the sun and of the moon
Only Death Is Real 