Year: 2024Label: Steinklang Industries French Regard Extreme are back with another slab of their medieval neoclassical – or call it what you want – following 2021’s Ars Veterum (reviewed here) and 2022’s compilation of reworked older tracks, Legacy (reviewed here). … Continue reading REGARD EXTREME: Eco Solemnis
ARDITI: Insignia Of The Sun Release year: 2020/2023Label: Blooddawn Productions Martial industrial stalwarts Arditi have been active on the release front this year: this is already their second release in 2023. However, unlike Emblem Of Victory (reviewed here), Insignia Of … Continue reading Arditi’s solar symbolism
DARK AWAKE: Abaris Hyperboreios Release year: 2023Label: Steinklang Industries If you’d go by what artists are mentioned in various social media groups and forums, you’d think neofolk and martial industrial basically consists of Death In June, Arditi, Blood Axis, Forseti, … Continue reading Hyperborean awakening
KRASCHAU: Ultrakonservativ Schlagerparade Release year: 2022Label: Gradual Hate Records In comparison to the album I reviewed yesterday (African Imperial Wizard’s Nzinga Mbande), Kraschau has always been considerably less enigmatic and without all the layers of subterfuge. The martial industrial project … Continue reading Traditionalist hit parade
AFRICAN IMPERIAL WIZARD: Nzinga Mbande Release year: 2022Label: Tesco Organisation So… according to the descriptions found online, African Imperial Wizard are a group based in Luanda, Angola, and were formed the day after the ceasefire was signed which ended the … Continue reading African industrial wizards
ARDITI: Emblem Of Victory Release year: 2023Label: Blooddawn Productions Few are names are regarded as highly in the martial industrial scene as Swedish Arditi, who have been in existence for over 25 years and whose debut album Marching On To … Continue reading Emblems of Arditi’s victory
KAARNA: Kultataivaat, hopeaveet, unet helmiäistä Release year: 2022Label: Anima Arctica The eccentric and ever-shifting Kaarna have had a pretty steady release schedule. Since the one-man project’s debut album Comitatus Savolaxiae in 2019, the steady pace has been one album per … Continue reading Kaarna’s reveries under golden skies
It’s been a while since we did one of these. In fact, looks like in all of Only Death Is Real’s history, we’ve only done one year round-up. High time for a second one, don’t you think? So, here are … Continue reading A year in summation: 2022
V/A: Unio Solidarium Release year: 2022Label: Old Captain This year it will be nine years since terrorist state Russia attacked Ukraine without any provocation or justification, and occupied parts of the Eastern European nation. Soon it will be a year … Continue reading Slava Ukraini!
REGARD EXTREME: Legacy Release year: 2022Label: Steinklang Industries French Regard Extreme are perhaps not one of the most famous names in the neoclassical and martial industrial genres but are, without doubt, one of the more long-lived acts. The project did … Continue reading Regard Extreme’s legacy
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