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
TALVI: Complete Works ’01-’22 & Solstice Collection ’99-’02/’23 Release year: 2023Label: self-released Way back in the very early noughties, Finnish label Spinefarm (at the time home of acts such as Children Of Bodom and Barathrum) had a number of record … Continue reading Winter in the dungeons
Norja, Sara: ALKEMIAN HISTORIA Release year: 2023Publisher: SKS KirjatAvailable in: Finnish Everyone knows about alchemy, right? It was that old superstitious belief that you could make gold from stone, or from other metals, and the ludicrous practice of trying to … Continue reading A history of The Great Work
DE LA ROCKA: De La Rocka Release year: 2023Label: Bad Billy Records Back in February, we took a look at former Graveyard Bashers guitarist Panu De La Rocka’s first solo release, the single Out Of This World – out due … Continue reading Transmissions from Planet Psycho
LÄJÄ ÄIJÄLÄ AND ALBERT WITCHFINDER: Triumph & Ordeal Release year: 2023Label: Svart Records When speaking of legends within Finnish extreme music, they don’t come much more legendary than Läjä Äijälä. Vocalist and band leader of hardcore pioneers Terveet Kädet (whose … Continue reading Through ordeals to triumph?
Only Death Is Real 